Ever before the first ballot in the 2019 presidential elections was cast, some members of Nigeria’s leadership elite, across the political spectrum, were already signaling their intention to run for the presidency in 2023. It seemed as if the president’s term, when re-elected, would be for 48 weeks rather than 48 months. It is one […]
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By Abdu Rafiu Concern about the influx of Chinese into Africa, and into Nigeria, in particular, is mounting. It is getting louder by the day. The worry is shifting from the large-scale engagement in extractive industries— mining of gold in Zamfara State, and exploratory mining in Osun State, again in gold, for example—to acquisition of […]
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By Abdu Rafiu As I was saying…The appointment of Professor Ibrahim Agboola Gambari has put paid to all manner of speculations on who becomes the Chief of Staff to President Muhammadu Buhari in succession to Malam Abba Kyari snatched away by the vicious Mr. COVID-19, alias Coronavirus of no known or fixed address. Baba Gana Kingibe […]
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By Abdu Rafiu Madagascar’s President Andry Rajoelina drinks a sample of the “Covid Organics” or CVO remedy at a launch ceremony in Antananarivo on April 20, 2020. “Covid Organics” or CVO is a remedy produced by the Malagasy Institute of Applied Research (IMRA) created from the Artemisia plant and is claimed to help prevent coronavirus Covid-19 […]
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The ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) has fixed June 2, for its governorship primary in Edo State, ahead of the September 19 poll. Southsouth Bureau Chief, Bisi Olaniyi writes on the intrigues and power play. The people of Edo State are politically conscious. The September 19 governorship election will be a battle between the candidates […]
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The fear of lack of bed space for coronavirus patients at isolation centres has gripped the government, now seeking the possibility of home treatment. Government now making appeal to owners of uncompleted buildings or empty property to donate to the government for use when government has many edifices and structures abandoned at different locations in […]
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Government unusual” was somewhat patented by former Osun Governor, Rauf Aregbesola (now Interior minister), to capture a willy-nilly push for development, of a state, stagnant for far too long. Somewhat, that phrase captured it all: the high and the low; the whoop of victory and the moo of defeat; the abuse and the praise; the […]
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The litigation involving All Progresives Congres (APC) Senator Smart Adeyemi and Senator Dino Melaye has been full of drama at the National Assembly Election Petition Tribunal, Abuja. The people of Kogi West District anxiously await the judgment. Where will the pendulum of victory swing? Deputy Editor Emmanuel Oladesu examines the power struggle between the two […]
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Ekiti State Governor Kayode Fayemi and political appointees are making an unprecedented sacrifice of 50 per cent salary cut to keep the wheel of governance moving, amid fiscal challenges posed by COVID-19 pandemic. Odunayo Ogunmola examines the issues surrounding the salary reduction. It was not an easy decision to take but it had to be […]
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The dust is yet to settle over the 1,800 bags of rice which the Oyo State government received from the Federal Government and attempted to return without success. While the state described the rice as weevil-infested and unfit for human consumption, the Nigerian Customs Service (NCS) which supplied the rice insisted that the rice supplied […]
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