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For a long time now the polity has been awash with the annual rehash of agitations for political inclusion of the country’s geo-political divides on whose turn it is to produ ce the country’s president in 2023. In the past days, prominent politicians have been declaring their intentions to run for their party’s tickets for ...
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Lisa is a town located in a suburb between Sango axis to the South, Ijoko axis to the east bound of Lagos and to the West end of Ifo. It is under Ifo local government and as well Egba settlement. The town Lisa came into the world limelight on 22nd of October, 2005 when a ...
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By Michael Owhoko, Ph.D I am neither a prophet nor a clairvoyant, but from the manifestation in my crystal ball, I see Nigeria in 2023 being shaped by upheaval fueled by miseries and hopelessness. Agitation reminiscent of the ENDSARS protests will break out. Primary triggers are the country’s pathetic economic indices, including growing unemployment, cynical ...
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Nigerians should be proud of how much progressive politics has helped in tackling our challenges of development in seven years. It all started when Buhari’s CPC, Tinubu’s ACN and Oyegun’s ANPP as well as others came together to pull off the greatest political coalition in Nigeria’s history. They, through the ballot, booted out an incumbent ...
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By Dakuku Peterside It has been a long road to the APC convention, after 22 months of uncertainty and another long night at the historic and symbolic eagle square that ended the waiting game. At the end, the president and the conclave of governors triumphed. The fundamental tenets of democracy – freedom to choose candidates, ...
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By Femi Adesina A lot of auguries have attended the governing All Progressives Congress (APC), which holds a crucial National Convention on Saturday. And most of the prognostications have not been good. Implosion. Explosion. Schism. Scatter, are some of the words often used to describe the fate that would befall the party. But don’t forget. ...
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By Salisu Na’inna Dambatta This is a personal plea with the members, leadership and stakeholders of the All Progressives Congress (APC) to please close ranks and unite to sustain the nine-year old political party that has been wholehartedly trusted by Nigerians to manage their affairs. Unity is essential for the party to remain strong, relevant ...
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…Who is afraid of Godwin Emefiele? In recent times, there have been media reports on the purported interest of the Governor, Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Mr. Godwin Emefiele, in the 2023 presidential race, leading to stampede by interested parties and vested interests who are resorting to all sorts of blackmail, sponsored articles and choreographed comments on ...
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By Bolanle Bolawole On June 1, 2018, there was pandemonium (“b’oolo, yaa’mi) at the All Progressives Congress (APC) rally in Ado-Ekiti as a chieftain of the party, Opeyemi Bamidele, was accidentally shot by a policeman at a rally organised by the APC; the rally was to welcome Dr. Kayode Fayemi, its governorship candidate in the ...
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By Dakuku Peterside For decades, Nigerians have been living in denial about the state of our country’s petroleum refining and distribution system. Even non- specialists without any training in elementary petroleum economics know there is something wrong with our petroleum products refining, importation, and distribution regime and regulatory systems. Unfortunately, even with enacting the protracted ...
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By Sakirudeen Bashiru The chieftaincy institution is one, which structures and regulates the activity of local chieftains (or monarchs) in the society, state or nation, hence, the Nigerian Chieftaincy System is native to Nigeria entailing everything from the country’s monarchs to its titled family elders. Notably, the chieftaincy structure as a whole is one of ...
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By Edward Gabkwet On 26 January 2021, the Nation woke up to the news of a change in military leadership by the Commander in Chief of the Armed Forces of Nigeria, President Muhammadu Buhari, GCFR. By sheer providence, Air Marshal Oladayo Amao became one of the deserving beneficiaries of the change as he assumed office ...
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By Dakuku Peterside There are masquerades in every culture and the life of every individual. The masquerades wear masks for different reasons – from prevarication, illusion, fantasy, fright, horror to protection. No matter the reason, masquerades thrive by covering who they are and taking up a persona unique to the image they want to portray. ...
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By Ogaga Ariemu It is indeed true that the last six years of Governor Aminu Tambuwal administration in Sokoto State have been filled with astonishing speed, however one enduring constant in the passing period has been his bold, firm, determined and unwavering commitment to selfless and patriotic service to the state and Nigeria. Despite the ...
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Stakeholders in healthcare sector observe that the effects of COVID-19 on humanity have affected every sphere of human endeavours such as in education, economy and health, among others. Mrs Sarah Gimba, a medical practitioner in Abaji community of Abuja, notes that with the rising cases of COVID-19 cases in the country, government ought to send health ...
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By Femi Adesina It’s the beginning of a year, and it’s that time you hear all sorts from futurists, prospectivists, and foresight practitioners. The Good Book tells us of the 5-fold Ministries of Apostles, Prophets, Evangelists, Pastors, and Teachers. These are offices into which God has called some people, to lead, guide and comfort His ...
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By Gboyega Akosile I have read a lot reactions and media reports on the engagement between the Lagos State Governor, Mr. Babajide Sanwo-Olu, the residents/property owners in Magodo Phase II Estate and a certain Chief Superintendent of Police, who was sent from Abuja to lead the supposed execution/enforcement of the Supreme Court Judgment on the ...
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By IKE CHIOKE On November 6, 2021, the people of Anambra State set high standards for their neighbours in the South East region of Nigeria and beyond when they voted a professor of Economics, former governor of the Central Band of Nigeria and one of Africa’s leading critical thinkers, Chukwuma Soludo, into office as their ...
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By Dr Ezrel Tabiowo When the Ninth Assembly was inaugurated on June 11, 2019, it came prepared to deliver on its mandate, which in clear terms was to ensure “a National Assembly that works for Nigerians,” following Senator Ahmad Lawan’s emergence as President of the Senate and Chairman of the National Assembly. The upper chamber, ...
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By Dr. Ezrel Tabiowo Before he ventured to contest the Senate Presidency, Senator Ahmad Lawan, had a clear-cut vision in his legislative agenda which some at the time considered a rather tall order. One of the most ambitious of them was his bid to restore the nation’s deformed budget cycle to the January to December ...
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When President Muhammadu Buhari assumed office on May 29, 2015, one of his cardinal focus was the fight against corruption, because of his belief that “if we do not kill corruption, corruption will kill Nigeria.” The fear of corruption became so palpable that the “body language” of the president assumed a warning signal. Apart from ...
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Established by President Muhammadu Buhari on March 9, 2020, the Presidential Task Force (PTF), which later metamorphosed into the Presidential Steering Committee (PSC) on COVID-19, was mandated to provide overall policy direction, guidance and continuous support to the National Emergency Operations Center (EOC) at the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC). It also provided such direction to ...
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By Garba Shehu The purpose of the President’s trip to Turkey, December 16th to 19th was to participate in the 3rd Turkey-Africa Partnership Summit, with an appealing theme: “Enhanced Partnership for Common Development and Prosperity.” Our national strategy was laid out before departure, based on a strong optimism that the summit will work well for all ...
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The former Vice Presidential Candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party in 2019, Mr Peter Obi, says his financial support to schools and health institutions has no political undertone. Obi said thiis when he visited Madonna Catholic Hospital, Umuahia, where he donated N1.5 million to support the facility. He said the gesture was borne out of ...
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By Femi Adesina When he popped out of his mother’s womb 79 years ago in rustic Daura, now in Katsina State, nobody could have predicted that he would bestride the country, nay the world, like a colossus. Who could have predicted that a honest man, Mai Gaskiya, had come forth? Who could have foretold that ...
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The Federal Government inaugurated a 14-member National Taskforce Committee to draft a framework that would guide mining activities in the country. The committee is chaired by the National Security Adviser (NSA), Babagana Monguno. Part of the committee’s terms of reference is the development of a framework for vetting of prospective miners who would undertake mining ...
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By Dakuku Peterside Nelson Mandela, the legendary African anti-apartheid fighter, said the future belongs to the youth, but Barak Obama qualified it by saying that the future belongs to young people with education and the imagination to create. None of them could foresee that drug could ambush the youth and threaten the future. This reality ...
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Some parents are in the habit of not teaching their children the proper names of penis, vagina and breasts. Instead of penis, they teach their children to say ‘pee pee,’ ‘tom tom,’ ‘jolo jolo,’ ruler, among others. Instead of vagina, some parents will teach their children to say ‘bom bom’ ‘aso rock,’ ‘T-junction,’ pawpaw,’ among others. These funny names ...
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The peaceful conduct of the Nov. 6, Anambra governorship election has proved that democracy has come to stay in the country. Prior to the election, there were threats by the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) that the election would not hold. There were also attacks on offices and equipment of the Independent National Electoral ...
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By Erasmus Ikhide In strategic scientific study of crime, it’s well noted that enormous variety among criminals and criminal acts in complex societies such as Nigeria must be pigeonholed holed into the typology of crime to achieve solutions to the casualties of human dysfunctionalities. It will be helpful to know that about one-third of all ...