The delicate and dangerous Chinese template for expansion
‘The New Lebensraum’ The Chinese are really thinking strategically. Always have been. What they are doing today, in plain sight, is based on what they know, based on their strategic analysis, of what the world will look like in 50 to 100 years’ time. They are already creating their version of our globe in 50 […]
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Yoruba group tasks INEC, stakeholders on Osun guber poll
By Yinka Fabowale The Yoruba Leadership and Peace Initiative, TYLPI, a socio-cultural group and think-tank, has urged the people of Osun State to go to the polls on 22 September 2018 to elect a new Executive Governor and make the exercise a watershed in the history of elections in the State and Nigeria as a […]
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Oyo seals off Obasanjo Farms, 15 others
The tax drive of Oyo State government continued on Tuesday as the task team sealed off agricultural produce farms belonging to former President Olusegun Obasanjo, (Obasanjo Farms), at Oluyole Industrial Estate, Ibadan, Evans Publishers, Heinemann Educational Books and University Press Limited (UPL) among others. The inter-ministerial task force, led by the Oyo state Board of […]
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APC must retain Osun – Buhari
President Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday, at the grand rally of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) in Osogbo, said the state must be retained by the party. He appealed to the people not to allow darkness to take over the state of Osun. He said that the people should come out massively to vote for […]
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Senator Dariye picks APC nomination form from prison
– It’s shocking, strange, embarrassing – PDP Former Plateau State Governor, Senator Joshua Dariye, who is currently serving a 14-year jail term over financial misdeeds while serving as governor, has picked an All Progressives Congress, APC nomination form to contest next year’s election. “Yes, Senator Dariye has picked a nomination form to seek a third […]
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2019: Cost of nomination forms frustrate youths – Group
– says development renders Not-Too–Young-To-Run act impotent Ready to Run Movement, a Civil Society Organisation (CSO) said the high cost of nomination form and lack of internal party democracy would undermine youths participation in the 2019 general elections. Mr. Ibrahim Faruk, one of the members of the group in a statement on Tuesday in Abuja, […]
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2019: Resolve political cases on merit, CJN tells judges
AS the 2019 general elections draw near, the Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN), Justice Walter Onnoghen on Tuesday charged Judges to resolve all political cases brought to their court on merit, without any external influence in the delivery of the judgments. In a message to the 34th Annual Conference of Judges of the Federal High […]
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Nigeria, Congo to house 50% of world poor by 2050 ― Bill Gates
Except the world rallies to the rescue, at least 86 per cent of the world’s extremely poor will be resident in sub-Saharan Africa by 2050, less than 32 years from now, and half of them will be from Nigeria and Congo Democratic Republic. Already, more extremely poor people reside in Nigeria than in any other […]
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Appointments: I will continue to be fair, unbiased – Buhari
President Muhammadu Buhari said he will continue to ensure equitable and fair distribution of appointments among the 36 states of the federation without being biased. Buhari, since assumption in office in 2015, has come under criticism from different sections of the country for allegedly favouring the northern region of the country in appointments of officials […]
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