By Nasiru Oseni Death tolls at the toll gate Of stolen lucre Blood flows beneath the bridge Of hidden corpses of grave denials washed ashore Sit down, wave the colonial flag In this place where We have come to die in search of life The truth can no longer be found Only a camcorder Of […]
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By Yinka Fabowale So, my senior colleague in the pen-wielding profession and Special Adviser to the President on Political Matters, Babafemi Ojudu, hearkened to my call in the last Revolution Notes for Nigerians to join in the battle to liberate ourselves from retrogressive forces that had so far held the country down and blighted our […]
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Former Information minister, veteran journalist and politician, Prince Tony Momoh, has passed on. He died at 81 on Monday according to family sources. He served as the Information minister between 1986 and 1990 during the Ibrahim Babangida military dictatorship. President Muhammadu Buhari, leading in paying tributes, said that Momoh was exemplary in loyalty. While mourning […]
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By Banji Ayoola In His unfathomable Love, He cares for everyone who has even a dot of good in him; He thinks of all who have good volition even with all the wrongs, all the evils they must atone for. He wants none of these to perish. He wants everyone of these to redeem his […]
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President Muhammadu Buhari has failed to summon a meeting of the Nigeria Police Council for the past 21 months despite the rising insecurity in the country. Investigations by our correspondent indicated that the last time the council met was on May 23, 2019, when it confirmed the appointment of Abubakar Adamu as the substantive Inspector-General […]
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Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike, says the Federal Government is insincere in its fight against insecurity in the country. Wike, who spoke on Channels Television’s Sunday Politics programme monitored by The PUNCH, said the government has politicised its fight against insecurity. He said, “First, you have to ask yourself, is the Federal Government sincere? Are they serious about […]
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Former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar has said Nigeria urgently needs to be rescued from various ills plaguing it. The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) stalwart regretted that the country has been badly damaged and broken. He decried what he called the unbearable and alarming conditions among Nigerians. Atiku said hunger is ravaging the land as farmers have […]
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State governments, except Lagos and Oyo, are not making independent plans to procure COVID-19 vaccine, officials said on Sunday. Officials of states including Plateau, Delta, Ekiti, Gombe, Cross River and Bauchi, in separate interviews, said they had not made any plan to buy the vaccine, rather they would depend on allocations from the Federal Government. […]
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calls for law to stop movement of cattle from North to Middle Belt, South Herdsmen strike in Oyo communities Kano State Governor Abdullahi Ganduje, at the weekend asked the Federal Government to make a law stopping the movement of cattle from the North to the South to end the worrisome herders-farmers conflicts. He said: “My […]
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Lagos State Government is finalising its own COVID-19 vaccine strategy, even as it expects fair distribution of the Pfizer therapy from the Covax Facility being expected this month by the Federal Government. In an update yesterday, Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu hinged the belief on the fact that the state is the epicentre of the pandemic in […]
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