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Can the social media space be regulated in a manner that it will give young people the opportunity to unleash positive energy on the society without stifling their voices? Experts say it is possible. Youths constitute the bulk of those who use the social media space for interactions, empowerment and self-actualisation. They have leveraged advancements ...
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These are indeed interesting times. The Governor, Central Bank of Nigeria’s announcement to redesign the Naira. The Minister of Finance, Budget, and National Planning distancing herself publicly from the CBN Governor’s decision. Few days later, President, Muhammadu Buhari told bewildered Nigerians that he gave the CBN Governor the approval to carry out the reissue. From ...
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By Dakuku Peterside . We are in another election season. Political parties, jobbers, and candidates deploy everything to convince innocent voters that they mean well and have a clear agenda to transform society. Most people - con artists, comics, and patriotic citizens - attempt to present what they intend to do when elected to office. ...
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This flooding disaster has taken away all I have and now I’m without a family,” says Mr Bernard Achonu, an indigene of Isiala Mbano in Imo State who resides in Nputu community, Ogbaru Local Government Area (LGA), of Anambra, Nigeria. He lost his wife and three children age two, four and six in a boat ...
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By Dakuku Peterside. This year, 2022, the floods seem to have united different parts of the globe. The World Bank report estimates that 1.18 billion people or 23% of the world population face significant flood risks. The floods have hit 27 of Nigeria’s 36 states and impacted around 1.4 million people, according to the Ministry of ...
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Adewale Kupoluyi Recently, President Muhammadu Buhari presented the 2023 appropriation bill to the National Assembly. Record shows that N20.5 trillion (or $47.3 billion) was the proposed expenditure by the Federal Government to run the economy in 2023, which reflects the huge needs that exist in critical sectors of the economy. The proposed budget, which is ...
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By NJ Ayuk, Chairman, African Energy Chamber Ahead of the November 2022 United Nations Climate Change Conference (more commonly known as COP27) in Egypt, Dr. Benedict Oramah, president and chair of Afreximbank, authored a thoughtful and compelling commentary about the economic and social impact of divestment from the production of fossil fuels in Africa. With ...
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By Michael Owhoko, Ph.D Without prejudice to extent of preparations, has government genuinely evaluated reasons for dispute and rejection of previous census results in Nigeriabefore proceeding to organize another headcount? Results of census conducted in 1962, 1963, 1973, 1991 and 2006 were all marred by anomalies and controversies allegedly engendered bymanipulation and falsification of figures. ...
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By Muhammadu Buhari Nigerians were delighted by the news this summer that 72 artefacts, known as the Benin Bronzes, held by the Horniman Museum in London were returning home, 125 years after being plundered by British troops. The clamour for repatriation of looted treasures is becoming irresistible. There was once a similar clamour for the ...
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By ISAAC OLUSESI isaacolusesi@gmail.com The trade of snarls on the past and present State of Osun governments of the All Progressives Congress (APC), by commission or omission, is counter productive. The quid pro quo, for most of the time has generated controversies. Out of relics. Painfully, the latest altercations have only instituted sweeping commands from ...
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By: Balogun Ibrahim The seemingly ingrained tendency for human beings to so easily forget their antecedents, repay evil for good and seek to destroy those God chose to use as their benefactors never ceases to amaze me. As a passionate member of the All Progressives Congress (APC), I am saddened at the concerted, coordinated and ...
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By Mahmud Isa Yola Save for the fact that the news came from the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency itself, Nigerians would have found it hard to believe that there is a prodigious amount of cocaine sequestered somewhere in the southwestern part of Nigeria that could weigh up to 1.8 tonnes and be worth up ...
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By Goke Awoyemi When the people of Osun State, South-West Nigeria, trooped out enthusiastically to elect who governs them for the next four years on 16th July, 2022, they had two candidates in mind. These are Governor Isiaka Adegboyega Oyetola and Senator Nurudeen Ademola Adeleke, as the other contestants as INEC results has shown were ...
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By Hon. Rotimi Makinde Truth most time is very thought provoking and with it, some can even elicit just commentaries or attract positive reactions, especially when it is not viewed within the prism of bias or sentiment. Sadly, social media lately has made things worse through opinions laced with unreasonable prejudices. In fact, if the ...
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I recall my Legal Opinions dated several months ago (widely circulated on social media, being part of my social responsibility of public enlightenment). (2) I'm bemused at the ludicrous futility of suits of certain political actors seeking to nullify nomination of candidates of certain political parties who had been validly, legally and constitutionally substituted. (3) ...
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Ismail Omipidan Let me state from the outset that this is not a media trial of the case before the Osun Election Petitions Tribunal. Far from it. This is just an attempt to ‘synchronise’ what I said recently with respect to the outcome of the July 16 election with the revelations from The Youth Initiative ...
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Adewale Kupoluyi The Nigerian Bar Association Section on Business Law (NBA-SBL) has elected new set of officers to steer its affairs for the next two years. The coming on board of seasoned lawyers is an opportunity to consolidate on past achievements and develop fresh strategies that would made the section a force to be reckoned ...
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I decided to read a copy of the National Grazing Reserve Council Bill and I was surprised at what I saw. The Bill creates a council to be chaired by a Chairman to be appointed by the President. The council shall have the power to take your land anywhere the land is located in the ...
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By Dakuku Peterside Something remarkable happened last week at the 2022 Nigeria Bar Association (NBA) conference in Lagos. However, social media was awash with mundane, trivial, irrelevant, and cosmetic portrayals and representations of the Vice-Presidential candidate of APC at that event. They focussed on the appropriateness, type, and size of the shoe the ebullient Senator ...
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Kunle Oyatomi I do not admire politicians; but when they are excellent in their way, one cannot help allowing them their due. – Horace Walpole (1717-1797). The contemporary political history of Nigeria reveals one universal truth: leadership or headship of a government is beyond winning elections. Victory at the poll is the cherished desire of ...
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By Bolanle Bolawole turnpot@gmail.com 0705 263 1058 The headline above is not originally mine. Rather, it is the title of an online publication by ng.news247.com on 30th May, 2021, the eve of Osodeke’s election as the president of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU). Osodeke took over the mantle of leadership from Prof. Biodun ...
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By FEMI ADESINA The common, and perhaps, popular narrative for political, baleful and pernicious reasons, is for people to say that the Muhammadu Buhari administration has run down the economy of the country completely since its advent in 2015. The fact that the global economy is spiraling out of control with inflation, stagflation, recession and ...
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By FEMI ADESINA To be troubled in trouble is to have your trouble doubled, so goes a saying. And for Hassan Usman, a lawyer, it didn’t just rain on March 28, this year, it poured. He was not only onboard the Kaduna-bound train attacked by terrorists, his wife, Amina, was also there. They both got ...
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Kunle Oyatomi I write this missive against the background of the outcome of the Osun gubernatorial poll conducted on July 16, 2022, with the main protagonists being incumbent Gboyega Oyetola, of the All Progressives Congress, APC , and Ademola Adeleke of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP. It is also in the context of the decision ...
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By Igbotako Nowinta Today, the political track in Nigeria is being filled and charged with aspirants of all shades, sizes and colours wishing or seeking to represent the people by using the fast approaching 2023 general elections as a scaldfold to showcase themselves, with a view to winning the hearts of unsuspicious members of the ...
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By KOLA OLABISI There's nothing that Akpan will not witness at the gate of his master! The series of the latest horrendous happenings in Osun State political sphere today where the governorship election has just been lost and won are scary, strange, disheartening and primitive. The subset of the nation is becoming a geographical expression ...
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By Kassim Afegbua This is the era of political campaigns where all manner of subterfuge are allowed to flourish to confuse and convince the undiscerning mind in a bid to raking up votes for the election. I have listened to, and dissected both personalities of Atiku Abubakar and Asiwaju Tinubu in terms of experience and ...
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By KOLA OLABISI It is not unusual for a genuine exceptional performance to witness a litany of congratulatory messages from well-wishers, friends, relations and acquaintances. Such congratulatory messages should however, not be at the behest of the person being celebrated. For a congratulatory message to have its deserved intended meaning, it must genuinely come from ...
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Egungun festival is one of the most celebrated events in Ogbomoso, the land of valiant. It is mostly observed by the traditional religion faithfuls and others who have keen interest in tradition. The inception of this festival can’t be traced to any year in order to forestall history from being distorted; several attempts to get ...
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By Davidson Ayoade Ojeniyi On Osun election, Oyetola lost the election not because he didn’t perform as a Governor. In the same token, he didn’t lose totally because he had a problem with Aregbesola. He lost simply because he governs a state of a generation which doesn’t seem to understand what it is actually looking ...