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Marwa endorses Tinubu-Shettima Presidential ticket, describes APC candidates best for Nigeria
Executive Chairman, National Drug Law Enforcement Agen y, (NDLEA), General Buba Marwa, rtd. has congratulated the All Progressives Congress (APC) for picking his successors in office as Presidential and Vice Presidential Candidates of the party in next year’s Presidential Election. He made this statement when the steering Committee and members of The Renaissance Team for TINUBU/SHETTIMA paid him a congratulatory…
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Kwankwaso declines invitation to address Arewa group, says summit already compromised
Presidential candidate of the New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP), Senator Rabiu Kwankwaso has declined the invitation to address the Arewa Joint Committee. In a letter he personally wrote to the committee, the former Kano State governor said he believed the committee had been compromised, with reports of using the meeting to endorse a presidential candidate surfacing. Kwankwaso also said his…
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Nigerian-American filmmaker, Ose Oyamendan premieres ‘Other Voices’ in Israel
Nigerian-American filmmaker, Ose Oyamendan was in Israel recently to premiere his film “Other Voices” which is about Sderot and Gaza. The film is about untold stories in the area which are often neglected according to the filmmaker. Oyamendan in an interview with Times of Israel recently said the film took him a decade of filming, adding that a trip to…
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Death of workplace religion: The Polaris Bank mis-example, By Festus Adedayo
A letter was found in 2006 in the room of a Nigerian drug leader after his apprehension in Thailand. The note had read: “Almighty God in Heaven, I have the right to be rich. I have the right to be a millionaire and no country has the right to pass laws that interfere with my reaching my goal of being…
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Atiku: The peril of inordinate ambition, By Louis Odion
Atiku is a conflicted bigot, consumed by inordinate ambition. He remains a bare-foot slave to an empire the Nigeria of the twenty-first century has outgrown. In 2011, he battled Jonathan for PDP ticket, on the argument that the ‘North has not used up its two term slots’, following Yar’Adua death in office on May 5, 2010. (Forget that he stubbornly…
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Before we get carried away again, By Simon Kolawole
In 1999, as President Olusegun Obasanjo was getting set to assume office, Channels TV sampled the opinions of everyday Nigerians on their expectations from the new government. One woman memorably said: “I want Obasanjo to bring the economy down!” You can laugh all you want, but her message was very clear: the economy was fundamentally about the prices of goods…
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Chibok parents still waiting for their girls, By Yemi Adebowale
Parents in Chibok, Borno State are still waiting for their abducted daughters, eight years after the gory incident. Last Wednesday, the Kibaku Area Development Association, also known as Chibok Community, said over 110 girls were still with their abductors. The community raised the alarm over the neglect of the schoolgirls abducted in their school by Boko Haram in 2014. No…
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You finished well, Akeredolu garlands Fayemi after end of tenure
Ondo State Governor, Arakunrin Oluwarotimi Akeredolu, SAN, has congratulated Dr. John Kayode Fayemi on the successful completion of his tenure as governor of Ekiti State. Governor Akeredolu said the totality of Fayemi’s eight years as governor has been marked with remarkable excellence and immeasurable positive impact in the Land of Honour. The governor noted that the former Ekiti State governor…
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Are we drinking the Petrol? By Simbo Olorunfemi
Always a delight listening to the Khalifa, Sanusi Lamido Sanusi, the 14th Emir of Kano. He keeps you spellbound by the force and smoothness of his delivery, It was no doubt a delight listening to him deliver the keynote speech in Kaduna yesterday at this year’s KadInvest, an annual investment forum organised by the Kaduna State Investment Promotion Agency, in…
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My administration will achieve double-digit economic growth, Tinubu promises at KadInvest
…APC presidential candidate pledges full financial autonomy for judiciary …says Kaduna people will reap El-Rufai’s economic efforts All Progressives Congress (APC) presidential candidate, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, has promised to build a vibrant economy that will achieve a double-digit growth when he becomes Nigeria’s president. Asiwaju Tinubu said this in his speech at the 7th edition of Kaduna Economic and…
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