By Olukorede Yishau It was immediately after the June 12, 1993 presidential election. Bashorun MKO Abiola had won decisively all over the country, even defeating Bashir Tofa in places you would have expected ethnic affinity to guarantee him success. Then Messiah Ibrahim Maradona Evil Genius Badamasi Babangida had a vision: Declaring Abiola the winner would […]
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FG should contain herdsmen’s menace – YCE Yoruba Council of Elders, YCE, has said it is working behind the scene to ensure that the Yoruba Nation agitator, Chief Sunday Adeyemo, aka Sunday Igboho, is released from the custody in Benin Republic. It also said the younger generation in Nigeria had become frustrated because the present […]
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By Tony Afejuku Many of Nigeria’s Vice Chancellors are unquestionably perfect islands of distinguished academic administrators. So long as their islands remain islands many of their colleagues who constitute the rank-and-file outside their respective islands will forever need bridges and bridges across the Channels to be constructed and reconstructed to get to the islands. The […]
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Finance Minister, Zainab Ahmed By Phil F. Aragbada The startling revelation that the Federal Government spent N2.34trillion out of a total sum of N3.25 trillion accrued revenue in 2020 on debt servicing, to put it mildly, shows a potent recipe for economic bankruptcy.Expending over 72% of the annual National revenue on debt servicing in one […]
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By Afis Ayinde Oladosu “O! Ibrahim, you have indeed fulfilled the vision; this indeed is how We reward the good-doers (Quran 37: 105). “Curses were pronounced on those among the Children of Israel who rejected Faith… because they disobeyed and persisted in excesses; They did not prevent one another from committing sins nor would they […]
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Rallies Governors, National Assembly principal officers, others Ahead of the 2023 poll, some stakeholders of the All Progressives Congress (APC) have called for Vice President Yemi Osinbajo to succeed President Muhammadu Buhari in 2023.The group, Progressives Consolidation Group (PCG), led by Alhaji Ahmed Mohammed and Dr Eberechukwu Eli Dibia, said it has reached out to […]
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As prevailing economic challenges undermine investments and disposable incomes, local manufacturers have expressed concerns about the loss of investments to neighbouring African countries. The Senior Partner, Delloite Nigeria, Mr. Bernard Orji, during the 50th yearly meeting of the MAN, Apapa Branch in Lagos, stated that the prevailing challenges in the operating environment are undermining the […]
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Minister of Health Dr. Osagie Ehinare (left); Director General, NAFDAC, Prof. Mojisola Adeyeye; Executive Secretary, National Primary Health Care, Dr. Faisal Shuaib and Director General, NCDC, Dr. Chikwe Ihekweazu at a press briefing on the activities of the ministry and agencies at the State House, Abuja…yesterday. Photo: Philip Ojisua No generalised lockdown for now, govt […]
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Nigeria’s main opposition party, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), yesterday, asked the court to sack Yobe State Governor, Mai Mala Buni, and his deputy, Idi Barde Gubana from office over alleged breach of constitutional provisions barring a sitting executive from holding two offices at the same time.At the same time, it asked the court to […]
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Operatives of Ogun State Police Command have arrested a teenage herdsman, identified only as Mohammed, with one AK-47 rifle. The suspect was arrested while hiding in a forest with the gun. The state Police Public Relations Officer, DSP Abimbola Oyeyemi, disclosed this in a statement on Wednesday. Oyeyemi said the suspect was arrested following information […]
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