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By Bola Bolawole The Yoruba traditional institution and the Obas and Chiefs that perch on it are no longer what they used to be in terms of effective power and royal – even regal – bearing and esteem. In those days, an Oba is someone who sits (perches) atop everything (O ba l’ori ohungbogbo). He ...
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By Mohammed Idris, Honourable Minister of Information and National Orientation Having hit the ground running at home, with a series of very bold and unprecedented reform decisions, President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has gone ahead to seize the opportunity offered by the month of September 2023, to make a grand entry onto the global stage. In ...
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Building resilient public health systems is crucial for effective response to emergencies and preparing for future challenges. Thirty-seven years old, Mr Anthony Yohanna, a plumber, lives at Iche near Kagarko, a town on Abuja-Kaduna highway. Like many families in the area, his family heavily relies on subsistence farming for livelihood, because they live in a ...
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By Femi Ogbonnikan Emotion has been running wild in social and conventional media platforms following the partial demolition of DATKEM Plaza, Ijebu-Ode, belonging to the wife of former governor Gbenga Daniel of Ogun State, Yeye Olufunke. Two issues have been involved in the unfounded insinuations surrounding the misinterpretation of the action of the Ogun State ...
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By Ememmaria Offiong It is no longer news that the 16th President of The Federal Republic of Nigeria, Bola Ahmed Tinubu (GCFR) has appointed new ministers, establishing new Ministries in the process. We now have a Ministry for Tourism, headed by Mrs. Lola Ade-John. A Lagosian by birth, the new Minister holds a first degree ...
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By Tunde Rahman In the last one-week since President Bola Tinubu clocked 100 days in office, commentators and analysts, political observers and politicians have busied themselves, dissecting the President’s performance in office, particularly his major decisions and policy options. Many have also commented on the achievements recorded and the areas that require improvements. The newspapers ...
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By Isaac Olusesi The dividing line between one and significant others as well as the limits one can violate must be the defining factor in Nigeria’s Constitution 5th Alteration (No. 45) Act that forces the submittal of the names of Minister, Commissioner-nominees, respectively to the National Assembly (NASS) and State Houses of Assembly for confirmation ...
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By Femi Adesina I spent three days in Daura, Katsina State, about a fortnight ago, visiting with our former President and my principal, Muhammadu Buhari. I got more than an inkling into how he spends his days in retirement in that modest abode and verdant community. Even out of power and office, Buhari is in ...
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By Dakuku Peterside In August 2023, the federal, state, and local governments shared 1.26 trillion Naira from the Federation Account Allocation Committee (FAAC), the highest in our history. In July, they shared N966 billion, and from June till date, FAAC has distributed almost 3 trillion Naira. By Nigerian standards, this can be described as jumbo allocations. ...
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By Funmi Branco Lovers of democracy and good governance must be troubled by the crisis in Ogun State over local government allocations. When the chairman of Ijebu East Local Government Area, Hon. Wale Adedayo, accused the state governor, Prince Dapo Abiodun, of diverting local government (LG) funds, there were not a few Nigerians who felt ...
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By Isaac Olusesi The jury is out, the decision is taken and the news of the current gale of suspensions and expulsions of one hundred and ten listed high heeled leaders and members of All Progressives Congress (APC) in Osun State upon allegations of anti-party activities levelled against them, was jolly endorsed by the cross ...
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By Concerned APC Rivers Youths Youths, under the aegis of Concerned Youths of Rivers State APC are calling on President Bola Tinubu not to abandon those who have worked hard for the party in favour of those who never wanted anything good for the APC. The group on Monday, September 4, 2023, took to the ...
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By Rafiu Ajakaye Kwara made a very significant history on Monday, September 4, but it got buried in the deluge of media reportage that expectedly attended the swearing in of the cabinet members. Not many people paid attention to the swearing of two persons living with disabilities (PLWD) — Ayanwale Peter Kayode and Abdullahi Wahab ...
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...Re: The wind that blew Dapo Abiodun’s rump By Kayode Akinmade Taking cognisance of the privations to which Nigerians have been subjected over the years, there is a tendency in the land to assume the worst of leaders. Guilty or not, governors face the guillotine, condemned to hell by our elite commentariat and that is ...
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By Adewale Kupoluyi The Nigerian Bar Association Section on Business Law (NBA-SBL) recently held its 17th Annual International Business Law Conference at the Eko Hotel and Suites, Victoria Island, Lagos State themed, ‘The Nigerian Business Landscape: Priorities of Law, Policy and Regulation’, which was aimed at exploring recent trends in the country’s business law environment ...
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A level-playing ground, with detest for camarilla or kitchen cabinet in a democracy, has been recommended to the presidency, as Nigeria inaugurated a new Executive Council. Making the recommendation, Dr Thomas Olaleye Ogungbangbe has remarked that the new Ministers of the Federal Republic of Nigeria possess managerial ingenuity and commitment to effectively harness rational and ...
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Nigeria has one of the highest unemployment rates in Africa. According to National Bureau of Statistics (NBS), Nigeria's unemployment rate stood at 33.3 per cent in the last quarter of 2020 while the rate of unemployment among youths was even higher, 42.5 per cent. The NBS further says that as at the time the ...
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On the 26th of July 2023, the world was confronted with yet another distressing piece of news: the successful military coup in Africa’s Niger, marking the fourth such incident in a span of just two years, following similar events in Guinea, Mali, and Burkina Faso. The Nigerien presidential guard took action by removing President Mohamed ...
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By Dr Jimoh Ibrahim CFR The events we saw from the first, second and ongoing Cold War suggest that war is ingrained in all of us, yes, there may be no scientific proof or empirical evidence, but it is not the case that when science speaks, the truth comes out! One scientific theory, after clinical ...
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By Ismail Omipidan The saying that one cannot crown a clown and expect the clown to behave like a king appears apt in situating the happenings in Osun in recent times. In this era of digital and strategic communications, the contents coming from Osun on a daily basis, especially as they relate to the actions ...
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Joel Oladele, Abuja Recently, I put up a call through to my mother and after our usual greetings and mother-son prayers, she said to me in our dialect “Be praying for us o.” The tone was suspicious and I had to ask her the need for the prayer request. “Gunmen killed someone in Sabaja yesterday ...
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Joel Oladele, Abuja I pledge to Nigeria my country To be FAITHFUL, LOYAL AND HONEST…,” Those are the first two lines of the Nigeria national pledge. I don't know if I'm the only one who gets emotional while reciting the pledge. I often struggle to control my tears because to me, those are not just ...
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It is common knowledge that taxation plays a vital role in the economic development of every country whether developed, developing or under developed, and Nigeria is no exception. Government at all levels depends on the tax it collects to run the affairs of the State and it is the duty of every taxable citizen to ...
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By NJ Ayuk, Executive Chairman, African Energy Chamber (www.EnergyChamber.org) The world is watching Namibia. To be more specific, the energy world is watching. Ever since oil and gas majors Shell (United Kingdom) and TotalEnergies (France) announced massive hydrocarbon discoveries in Namibia’s offshore Orange Basin in 2022, interest in additional exploration in the Southern African country ...
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By Erasmus Ikhide Oone of the Niger Delta former Governors, in a chat told me late last year, how he accused the nation's current Service Chiefs at a meeting in Abuja of their involvement in oil theft in the region. “You're the actual pipe lines vandals and bunkers, beyond being precursors of oil theft.” In ...
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By Dakuku Peterside In the sphere of presidential engagement and communication, Nigeria has had different shades of Presidents, from the docile and absent, laidback, garrison-style communication, taciturn, to the pragmatic. Each shade created the mood and tone of the presidency and invariably impacted the quality of leadership the presidency exhibited. Although not ascribing to or ...
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By Ismail Omipidan In every corridor of power around the globe, there are people who call the shots. Some are seen. Others are invisible. But you hear and see their exploits. They are real. They wield enormous powers such that the real occupier of the office, on behalf of whom the powers are wielded, most ...
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Reading through different narratives on social media on what transpired at the governorship election Tribunal sitting in Isabo, Abeokuta, the Ogun State capital today, left me wondering how the menace of media sensationalism and misinformation have gone deeper into the fabric of our Society. That political thugs invaded the premises of the court where the ...
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The 2023 Adamawa governorship election was not only tough for Governor Ahmadu Umaru Fintiri, it shocked him to his marrows. Fintiri said, he didn’t only contest against Senator Aishatu Dahiru Ahmed Binani, but against powerful people in Abuja. Governor Fintiri further said, it was an attempted coup d’état against him. The aftermath of the April ...
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BY Dr. E.O Ogunsalu, Phd,MNIM, MNIIA There is a low level of high breed seedlings importation into the country. The land use act of the Federal Government is not helpful and has contributed negatively to agricultural development in the country. Some State Governments have acquired large expanse of fertile land and left the indigenes with ...