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By Ismail Omipidan Over the years, one thing has been very clear about Nigeria and its leaders: we do not lack good ideas and initiatives. What is lacking is courage and political will to do the right thing at the right time. This is why I commend President Bola Ahmed Tinubu for having the courage ...
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The Nigerian economy is built on a faulty foundation. Like all foundations, it requires considerable skill to strengthen and upgrade an already faulty one. A faulty foundation cannot support the weight of a structure, or keep it firmly on the ground. Therefore, it is only an adept team of individuals that can salvage a foundation ...
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By Akeem Adebiyi Really, he stunned the keen watchers of democracy and political observers when he emerged as the only elected federal lawmaker to represent Ibadan North Federal constituency at the green chamber in Ibadan city in the 2019 Federal elections. They were quite taken aback owing to their perception of him as a greenhorn ...
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Counterfeiting, the act of imitating, making illegal copies, or making something look like the original, usually goes with the intent to steal, destroy, deceive or even replace the original. The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development reveals that African countries are target destinations for counterfeit goods such as pharmaceuticals, foods and beverages. Unfortunately, the ultimate ...
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By Balarabe Isaac The instigated protest against the extension of the Acting Controller-General of the Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS), Idris Isah Jere by President Muhammadu Buhari, the Commander-in-Chief of the Nigerian Armed Forces is misplaced at best, at worst, ridiculous from faceless group going by the name ‘Concerned Nigeria Immigration Stakeholders’. This group should be ...
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By Kunle Somorin Parroted as the man who owns Gatwick and former adviser to the United States President Donald Trump, an iconic investor was in town. His visit was fortuitous but nonetheless memorable. He had come to bury his equally well-decorated late father, Nigeria’s first professor of medicine, Theophilus Oladipo Ogunlesi, who passed on a ...
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In a series of apparently syndicated editorials, this country’s newspapers – the Daily Trust and ThisDay – have attempted to lay the blame of the dire security situation in Benue State entirely at the feet of the outgoing president. As for the man who has actually presided over Benue State for the past eight years, ...
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By Michael Owhoko, Ph.D Real losers of 2023 Nigerian general elections are not the electorate who were deprived of their rights to freely choose candidates of their choice nor the first-timer youth who were disappointed by the Nigerian state nor the candidates who lost or won as declared by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC). ...
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I was astonished to have read a statement in form of a letter from one Diran Odeyemi, who did not disclose his current designation in a political contraption in Osun State under the aegis of the Peoples Democratic Party PDP, citing many unacceptable inferences why the All Progressives Congress APC governorship candidate, Mr Gboyega Oyetola, ...
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By Kunle Somorin In a keenly contested gubernatorial election like we had last Saturday in Ogun State, it is trite to say that there would be only one winner and 12 losers. Close watchers opined that the winner would either the incumbent, Dapo Abiodun or his hard-fighting clansman, Ladi Adebutu. A few pundits thought the ...
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By Ismail Omipidan Last Monday, the litigants in the Osun governorship tussle appeared before the three-man Appeal panel, in Abuja, led by Justice M.L. Shuaibu. But for the magnanimity of the panel, the counsel for all the parties would have lost the opportunity to give the “Chemistry and Biology” of their briefs. Once the justices ...
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By Funmi Branco THE gang-up was massive. At the eleventh hour, and when it mattered most, friends turned foes and associates turned persecutors. Criticism underlined by pure mischief took over the airwaves and naysayers shouted themselves hoarse, railing against the people’s governor. Their conscience captured by the rustle of naira notes, they called him every ...
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By Kunle Somorin About 45 months ago, Prince Dapo Abiodun came to office amidst massive hope and expectation from the people of Ogun State that at last a leader had come to truly guide Ogun to progress, development and the realisation of her destiny. The mood all over the State, at the time he took ...
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Last year, the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), through its Governor, Godwin Emefiele, announced the redesigning of the naira. The Governor, however, gave an initial deadline of January 31st 2023 for the phase out of the old note. The deadline was, however, extended to February 10, 2023 due to the scarcity of the new notes ...
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By Prof. Ojo Emmanuel ADEMOLA Lagos (as a derivative of the constitutionally created State of Lagos) is peculiar in many respects and can be signed-post as a micro Nigeria. In population and diversity, it’s about a tenth of Nigeria’s uncertified 200 Million people (population wise) for the Fulanis/Hausas’ North East (NE) and North West (NW); ...
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By Olumide Olaiya In the past few days, divergent views on the hydra-headed issues thrown up by the Presidential and National Assembly elections of 25th February, 2023 have been expressed by lawyers and non-lawyers via write-ups and news media interviews. It is interesting to note that some views gained very wide acceptability simply because the ...
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By Funmi Branco The 2023 presidential and National Assembly elections have come and gone. Prior to the elections, there had been a lot of trepidation, anxiety and tension across the country, including Ogun State. But the elections turned out to be mostly peaceful. Regardless of the imperfections in the system, a president-elect, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed ...
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By Ismail Omipidan “These elections have not lived up to the hopes and expectations of the Nigerian people and the process cannot be considered to have been credible.” The above quote from Chief EU observer Max van den Berg, in 2007, summed up the outcome of the 2007 presidential election supervised by former President Olusegun ...
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Over the years, Civic Education as a subject has become a major component of inculcating moral, culture and values into children in primary schools across the country. The Nigerian Educational Research and Development Council (NERDC) recently presented Electoral Education Curriculum and Teacher's Guide for primary schools in a move to use the civic education curriculum ...
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By Ola Emmanuel The skit maker chose a very auspicious location to pass the message across. Crossing the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway, with the fast-moving vehicles on top speed in both direction, she struggled to climb over the divide in an attempt to cross to the other side. She was on call and passing a message as ...
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I came across something of interest, which motivated me, and I would love to share it with you, it says, “You are smart enough, beautiful enough, and strong enough! Believe it and stop letting insecurity ruin you. Nothing holds you back more than your own insecurity. Do one thing every day that scares you; for ...
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Old habits can be hard to change, even as we mature and acquire more education. Some habits seem to stick with us, and that seems to be the case with my old friend Chidi Odinkalu, who can’t seem to shake his incessant rants against Governor Nasir El-Rufai. While Odinkalu’s rantings could be seen as comical ...
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By: Taiwo Kolawole Hassan In her article titled: The Emergent Queer: Homosexuality and Nigerian Fiction in the 21st Century, LINDSEY GREEN-SIMMS of the American University began with this first salvo, saying; “In Wole Soyinka’s 1965 novel The Interpreters, the African American professor Joe Golder, perhaps one of the most well known gay characters in African ...
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The concept of Amnesty, Disarmament, Deradicalisation and Reintegration (DDR) are universal tools used in resolving conflicts and violence with remarkable results globally. However, community-based reintegration is much more critical to sustainable peace in any country coming out of conflict. Amnesty refers to a decision by government to allow political prisoners to go free. It has ...
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As a Financial expert, I make bold to say that Cashless policy is a function of lifestyle. You don’t put a peg on cash limit when you don’t give out the new Naira notes. Why do you want people to stop spending the old naira notes when new ones are not made available? I hereby ...
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On Thursday, February 2, 2023, the Business Editor, Channels TV, Ini John-Mekwa, literally put the National President, Association of Mobile Money and Bank Agents in Nigeria, Mr Victor Olojo, on the spot during a short interview on zoom on the ongoing nagging issue of naira notes swap. The apex bank mandates banks to pay new naira notes . The ...
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Today, I want to revisit the certificate forgery matter of Governor Ademola Adeleke so as to let Nigerians know that there are plethora cases around the issue.But before I proceed, let me digress a bit. By my nature, I discuss, contextualise and analyse issues based on facts presented. After observing the facts, I apply logic ...
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By Dr Gbenga Adeoye Over the years, government agencies have been led substantially by people who possessed insufficient education, experience and exposure. What we fail to understand is that in Latin, we learnt that you cannot give what you don’t have.(Nemo dat quod non habet) The worst aspect of it is the interpretation of a ...
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By Olabisi Adedamola As the 2023 general election is only a month away, it is not necessarily news that the public space is witnessing a resurgence of vitriol against the person and office of the Governor of Ogun State, Prince Dapo Abiodun. If the Governor recently selected by Forbes Magazine as the winner of the ...
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By Ismail Omipidan When in August 2022, I announced to the whole world that in Osun, my Principal, Adegboyega Oyetola, did not lose the July 16 Governorship election, but only lost the vote count, some Nigerians, especially sympathisers of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) were furious. They called me names. But they could not marshall ...