By Martins Oloja Last week, I was summoned to Abuja, Nigeria’s seat of power, specifically to explain whether my team in Rutam House and my colleagues in the news media have any capacity to monitor governance and hold government to account in this age of the giants – that have disrupted the business dynamics journalism. […]
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Makinde Photo/facebook/OfficialSeyiMakinde By Taiwo Adisa “Yiyo ekun, ti ojo ko,” so goes the Yoruba saying. It translates to, ‘The gentility of a tiger is not a sign of weakness.’ In the jungle, ‘that the lion is master of stealth does not translate to fear.’ That is what the Yoruba saying is affirming in those words. […]
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PDP National Chairman, Prof Iyorchia Ayu, APC National Committee Chairman, Governor Mala Buni By Segun Ayobolu Following on the reasonably successful conduct of its last National Convention in Abuja at which the new Professor Iyorchia Ayu-led National Executive Committee of the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) emerged, the party, last week, held a two-day ‘PDP […]
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A price increase of about 30 per cent announced lately on electricity meters countrywide is not the best thing that can happen to the power sector which is already characterised by inefficiency in distribution, extortion through unjustified billings, and pronounced customer dissatisfaction marked by failure of the metering mandate by the Distribution Companies (DISCOS). The […]
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By Femi Falana SAN For several years, the human rights community had called for the prosecution of the operatives of the Special Anti Robbery Squad (SARS) over incessant arrests, detention, torture and extrajudicial killing of citizens. As such calls were ignored by the authorities the SARS intensified the brutalization of citizens particularly young people. The […]
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By Kennedy Ikantu Peretei All over the world, there is consensus to the fact that, education is a critical element of development. Nelson Mandela described education as ” the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world”. In the words of Chief Obafemi Awolowo, “in order to attain the goals of economic […]
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Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu (fifth right); with his deputy, Dr. Obafemi Hamzat (fifth left); Chairman, Lagos State Judicial Panel of Inquiry Report on Restitution for Victims of SARS Related Abuses and other Matters, Justice Doris Okuwobi (rtd) (fourth right) and members of the panel and State Executive Council, during the presentation of their report at Lagos […]
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THE ignoble attempt by the authorities to cover up the October 20, 2020 slaughtering of unarmed #EndSARS protesters at the Lekki toll plaza in Lagos was recently exposed in the report of the Lagos State Judicial Panel of Inquiry on Restitution for Victims of SARS Related Abuses submitted to Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu, but which has […]
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The current squabbles between the Attorney General of the Federation, Abubakar Malami on the one hand; and State Governors and local government councils on the other, over plan to deduct $419 million from the accounts of the states, is a reflection of corruption, lack of responsible leadership and possible underhand dealings in the affairs of […]
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Lagos State Governor, Mr. Babajide Sanwo-Olu (left), being presented with the report of the Lagos State Judicial Panel of Inquiry Report on Restitution for Victims of SARS Related Abuses and other matters by the Chairman of the Panel, Justice Doris Okuwobi (Rtd) (right) while Attorney General and Commissioner for Justice, Mr. Moyosore Onigbanjo (SAN) (middle) […]
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