To secure INEC offices from vandals

The attacks and consequent destruction visited on the offices of the Independent Electoral Commission (INEC) across the country, particularly the Southeast, is a cause for grave concern, considering also that the nation’s next general elections is less than 22 months away. By the latest count, about 41 of the electoral commission’s offices and other valuables […]

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Nigeria will be great despite challenges – Al Mustapha

Retired Major Hamza Al Mustapha, has expressed optimism that Nigeria will be a great nation despite the current challenges. Al Mustapha, who was Chief Security Officer (CSO) to late military head of state, Gen. Sani Abacha, said this when he spoke with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Sunday in Abuja. “It is wrong […]

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June 12 and the junta of 1999 Constitution

By Segun Ige The two-day National Public Hearing on the review of the 1999 Constitution is, indeed, a great step towards national integration and development. That’s how transformation, reformation and restoration begin. Great changes don’t happen in one fell swoop. In their recently released book, Change Your World, John C. Maxwell and Rob Hoskins significantly noted […]

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Taming the monster of traffic gridlock at Lagos seaports

Port access road in Apapa during Buhari’s visit When President Mohammadu Buhari visited Lagos seaports to inaugurate the deep blue project on Thursday, the protracted Apapa traffic gridlock that has defied nearly every solution disappeared overnight; leaving the stakeholders with shock about the magic wand that brought the gridlock monster to its knees. Even though, […]

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Despite Ayade’s APC move, Cross River remains PDP’s stronghold – Imoke

Senator Liyel Imoke, a former governor of Cross River State as well as former Minister of Power and Steel, in this interview with select journalists, said Governor Ben Ayade’s defection to All Progressives Congress (APC) did not alter the strength or cohesion of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the state. Recently your successor, Governor Ben […]

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PDP condemns clampdown on June 12 protesters

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has condemned Saturday’s violent clampdown on peaceful Democracy Day protesters by security agents in different parts of the country. A statement by the spokesman for the PDP, Kola Ologbondiyan, described clampdown as sacrilegious and a demonstration of the government’s aversion to democracy as well as its barefaced repugnance towards Nigerians, […]

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The TB Joshua many didn’t know, by ex-classmate, co-tenant

Says he was highly mystical in secondary school Synagogue’s founder was in love with James Hardly Chase’s, Shakespeare’s novels in school days How he began missionary work in Celestial Church Pastor Folorunsho Emmanuel Bamiduro, a Lagos-based cleric cum rights activist, was a childhood friend and ex-classmate of the late Prophet T.B. Joshua. He spoke with […]

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June 12: True federalism’ll solve Nigeria’s challenges – Akeredolu

Ondo State Governor, Mr Rotimi Akeredolu, on Saturday, said the only way to resolve the ongoing challenges facing the country is to adopt a true federal system of government. Akeredolu, however, noted that the challenges were surmountable provided that everyone in the country is sincere in tackling and finding a lasting solution to the problem. […]

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Now it’s fire for fire, Buhari warns secessionists, others

Secessionists, arsonists and bandits should now expect fire for fire from the federal government as it adopts a tougher stance against insecurity across the country. President Muhammadu Buhari vowed Friday night that those who are hell bent on destroying his administration would not go scot free. He spoke during an interview with the Nigerian Television Authority […]

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