By Banji Ayoola As they surge about, seeking desperately for an opening, for an open and willing host through whom they will do evil. Who will be held responsible, and who shall eventually bear the responsibility before the incorruptible and perfect Laws. Do not attract, welcome or entertain them. Do not produce them either. Concentrate […]
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Three major factors contributed to Atiku Abubakar’s second consecutive loss in the Nigerian presidential election as the candidate of the PDP For the third time in his chequered political career, Atiku Abubakar, failed to win the presidential election as a candidate. He came a distant third in his first attempt in 2007 when he vied […]
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By Abimbola Adelakun Now that Nigeria’s next census date has been officially confirmed, I am curious if the exercise will provide a different picture of our population distribution or merely validate the status quo. Anyone who has been a Nigerian for long enough already knows that the national population is a continuation of the politics […]
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Regular electricity has continued to be a mirage for many Nigerian homes. Janet Ogundepo writes on how alternative power supply has increased deaths and contributed to the fast-depleting climatic and environmental conditions in the country. A few days after a businessman, Lawerence Olorungbo, his wife, and three children, moved into their newly rented apartment in […]
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APC National Chairman, Abdullahi Adamu The All Progressives Congress said on Friday that the debate on the alleged attempt to foist an interim government on the country would not disrupt the handover of government to Asiwaju Bola Tinubu on May 29. The Tinubu-Shettima Presidential Campaign Council and the leadership of the ruling party also dismissed […]
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A leader of the Arewa Consultative Forum, on Saturday, called on the Federal Government to arrest and prosecute proponents of the interim national government. He said the agitation, in some quarters, to foist interim government on Nigerians, after Asiwaju Bola Tinubu of the All Progressives Congress had been declared President-elect, was the height of unpatriotism […]
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A total of 460 fleeing inmates from the medium custody facility in Kuje, Federal Capital Territory are yet to be recaptured. The names, images, and prison identification numbers of the fleeing inmates who were declared wanted were sighted by our correspondent on Friday on the Nigerian Correctional Service’s website. However, on the same website, 26 […]
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A yet-to-be-identified man was on Friday evening carried off an Abuja to Lagos flight. The middle-aged lone protester was said to have announced that the President-elect, Bola Tinubu, must never be sworn in as President on May 29. In the video obtained by our correspondent, it took the efforts of no fewer than six airport […]
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Rescue workers searched for more bodies.Pix: Reuters Eight people including two children were found dead in a marsh near the Canada-US border after trying to cross illegally into the United States, police said Friday. Their bodies were discovered near a capsized boat belonging to a missing man from the Akwesasne Mohawk community, officials reported. “A […]
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By Jerome-Mario Chijioke Utomi It is no longer news that some of the first-term governors-elect will face many months of unpaid workers’ salaries and mounting pension liabilities, as well as agitation for the implementation of the nationally agreed minimum wage, rising inflation, escalating prices of goods and services, and dwindling purchasing power. These incoming governors, […]
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