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Crying with Tobi Amusan. Nigeria shall win las las
The week began on a dolorous note. Gloomy, sepulchral. Early Sunday morning, a ghoulish video began to make the rounds, in which abductors of the train passengers held since March 28 were being brutally beaten up, with their captors threatening fire and brimstone against everyone in the country. It was a very sad spectacle. A cocktail of other negative stories…
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Let’s use NAFEST to unite Nigeria – Sanwo-Olu
Lagos State Governor, Mr. Babajide Sanwo-Olu has charged Nigerians to use the forthcoming National Festival of Arts and Culture (NAFEST) Festival as an opportunity to galvanise Nigerians and project unity in the country.He implored Nigerians to see their diversity, ethnicity and religious tolerance as an opportunity to unite without allowing politics and other things to divide them. Governor Sanwo-Olu made…
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NBA steps into case of jailed lawyer Effiong
The Nigeria Bar Association has stepped into the case of a lawyer Inibehe Effiong who was sent to jail by the Chief Justice of Akwa Ibom State Ekaette Obot. The NBA in a statement by its President Olumide Akpata said the 1st vice president of the association will join the Uyo branch in handling the matter. “I have received with…
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Aregbesola’s ex-commissioner, Bolorunduro, dumps APC for PDP
Dr Wale Bolorunduro, a former Commissioner for Finance during Rauf Aregbesola’s first term as Osun State governor, has left the All Progressives Congress (APC) for the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). Bolorunduro disclosed his decision to leave the APC for PDP while speaking to journalists in Osogbo. His leaving the APC comes just over a week after the party lost the…
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Disciplinary committee not for settling personal scores – Olanipekun warns lawyers
The Chairman, Body of Benchers (BOB), Mr Wole Olanipekun, SAN, has advised lawyers not to see the Legal Practitioners Disciplinary Committee (LPDC) as a forum for settling scores with imaginary enemies. Olanipekun made the call on Wednesday in Abuja at the Call to Bar ceremony for 1,491 new lawyers, held by the BOB at its secretariat in Jabi. According to Olanipekun,…
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Military kill 30 terrorists who attacked soldiers in Bwari
30 terrorists who attacked men of the Guards Brigade in Bwari area of the Federal Capital Territory on Sunday were killed by the military the Defence Headquarters says This was revealed at the Bí-Weekly news conference on military operations by the Director, Defence Media Operations, Bernard Onyeuko, on Thursday in Abuja. According to Onyeuko, the operation was conducted by troops…
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PDP Senators’ headline grabbing stunt, By Garba Shehu
The performative and babyish antics of those senators staging a walk out notwithstanding, Senate President Ahmad Lawan’s refusal on Wednesday to entertain the ridiculous motion to impeach our President was quite appropriate and correct. Rather than making a mockery out of voters by trying to imitate what they see in America, the opposition would be well advised that their time…
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Nigeria Air to begin operations with three leased airlines
The Federal Executive Council has given approval for the commencement of operations by Nigeria Air. Minister of Aviation, Hadi Sirika disclosed this while speaking with journalists at the end of Wednesday’s Federal Executive Council meeting. “We have said in our outline business case, which was earlier approved, that we are starting with three aircraft for the first instance and then…
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The BBC in Nigeria – Between reporting and propagating terror, By Kadaria Ahmed
It has simply gotten out of hand. Journalists and now a global media organisation of repute, the BBC, which should know better, are becoming a tool for terrorists, even if unwittingly, by amplifying the faces, voices and stories of killers and marauders who are still operating with impunity across Nigeria. The public interest argument seems to have been misunderstood, some…
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Dollar surge slowing global trade, worsening debt crises worldwide
The surge in the dollar is adding to the stresses afflicting the global economy, the International Monetary Fund has said, by slowing world trade and piling pressure on indebted developing countries. The dollar index, which measures the currency against a basket of its peers, has risen around 16% this year as the Federal Reserve has hiked interest rates faster than…
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