By Abimbola Adelakun Successive administrations in Nigeria start out by apprehending demons, or enigmatic forces, against which they will test their political strength and define the character of their government. Those forces are the factors on which all evil bedeviling the nation must necessarily be blamed. From coup speeches to inauguration addresses, each administration launches […]
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The July 27 military takeover of government in the Niger Republic continues the recent anomalous trend in the Sahel that has seen the overthrow of democratic administrations in Mali and Burkina Faso. It is the seventh military takeover in less than three years in West and Central Africa, undermining democratic progress in one of the […]
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#EndSARS protesters Thirty months after its tragic climax, the #EndSARS youth protest movement and its aftermath continue to reverberate and ruffle the conscience of a country that serially betrays its youth. In the latest peep into the thick official cover wrapped around the mass protest’s aftermath, a leaked memo revealed how the Lagos State Government […]
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Some chieftains of the All Progressives Congress in Rivers State, Thursday, said the former governor of the state, Nyesom Wike ran to the party to save his political career. They also noted that the former minister of state for education deserved no praise for the growth of the party in the state. According to a […]
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The Peoples Democratic Party on Thursday chided the All Progressives Congress for settling for the former Governor of Kano State, Abdullahi Ganduje, as its National Chairman. In a statement issued by its National Publicity Secretary, Debo Ologunagba, it said “The choice of Ganduje by the APC as its National Chairman, despite the stinking corruption and […]
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The Nigeria Labour Congress, Thursday, said it would commence a nationwide strike on August 14, 2023, should the Federal Ministry of Justice fail to withdraw the lawsuit filed against the organized labour. It made the decision during its National Executive Council meeting which was held in Abuja. According to a statement signed by the national […]
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NLC protests national Assembly By Samuel Akinnuga Anyone familiar with the nature of conversations on social media these days would understand where I’m coming from with the choice of this topic. For those who do not, I will give a little background. In one of those last courtesy visits to the villa, then president-elect Bola […]
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In the midst of raging reactions to last week’s coup in Niger Republic, the resilience of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) is to be applauded in an era of new regionalism. Nations exist in a world of interdependence warranting the expression that no nation is an island. It is this reality that […]
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President Bola Ahmed Tinubu attends The National Executive Committee (NEC) of the All Progressives Congress which elected the former Kano State Governor, H.E Abdullahi Ganduje, as the National Chairman and former Senate spokesman, Senator Ajibola Basiru, as National Secretary of the APC at the 12th NEC meeting of the party held at the Congress Hall […]
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As EU invests €500 million International Organisations for Migration, (IOM), in partnership with Search for Common Ground and Mercy Corps, Nigeria, has embarked on the second phase of its project, ‘Contribution to the Mitigation of Conflict Over Natural Resources Between Farmer and Herder Communities in Adamawa and Tara States’, (COMITAS). Chief of Mission, IOM Nigeria, […]
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