Once in a generation, the fight between David and Goliath reoccurs. This time, it is happening in Nigeria, in Rivers State, and in fact, in Bonny Island. Now, a dispute that may rock the entire landscape of the Niger Delta has emerged. It is contained in a 500-page document containing outcry over alleged wrongful termination […]
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A United Nations official said on Monday that degradation and competition over access to land and water may trigger the Third World War in Nigeria. “Land restoration is about security, reducing clashes between farmers and herdsmen over access to land and water, which may trigger the Third World War”, Ibrahim Thiaw, Executive Secretary of UN […]
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1. Dr. Oby Ezekwesili 2. Fela Durotoye 3. Atiku Abubakar 4. Omoyele Sowore 5. Donald Duke 6. Chief Obasanjo 7. Professor Charles Soludo 8. Pastor Tunde Bakare 9. Pastor Sunday Adelaja 10. Father Ejike Mbaka 11. Professor Pastor Yemi Osibanjo 12. Professor Tam David West 13. Professor Wole Soyinka 14. Rev. Chris Okotie […]
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The Nation’s Southsouth Regional Editor, Shola O’neil, was recently at the receiving end of extreme brutality at the hands of some men of the Special Anti-Robbery Squad popularly known as SARS. He shares his near-death experience. There is his story. “I had heard so much about the bestiality and madness of the Special Anti-Robbery Squad […]
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_So I’m watching Billionaire Femi Otedola’s interview with Forbes’s Peace Hyde on the day he lost a billion dollar and when asked by Peace to introduce himself, this is what the billionaire said:_ Femi Otedola is a guy that came into this world and did not know how he came and the guy that believes […]
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Ahead of the inauguration of President Muhammadu Buhari and Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo, the Catholic Archbishop of Abuja, Cardinal John Onaiyekan, has said it is no time to celebrate electoral victory or the defeat of political opponents. Oniayekan, who gave the message titled ‘Let us choose life, not death (Deuteronomy 30:19)’ during the ongoing presidential inauguration […]
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Nobel laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka has slammed the federal government for dismissing Obasanjo’s comment on the security situation in the country saying, “government should deal with its substance. The foremost playwright was speaking at an event organised by the United Bank of Africa to mark the 2019 Africa Day, in Lagos, on Wednesday. While delivering […]
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Idowu Akinlotan wrote: – “In November 2015, in the giddy early days of his governorship, Mallam el-Rufai invited Asiwaju Tinubu to commission Kaduna’s new cab scheme. It is hard to explain why the acerbic views he now publishes did not dissuade him from extending an invitation to a man he described at the time as […]
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Rotimi Amaechi, minister of transportation, says the federal government has approved the construction of Warri seaport at the cost of about 3.9 billion dollars and also awarded contract for Abuja-Warri rail line. Amaechi told NAN on Tuesday in Abuja that the federal government also approved the linking of Abuja to Itakpe, Itakpe-Warri, then from Warri […]
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The federal government has announced the outright sale of 14 out of the 42 oil block held by some international and indigenous operators which will expire this year. The outright sale instead of licences renewal is expected to boost government revenue.Thirty-five Oil Mining Leases and seven Oil Prospecting Licenses will expire at different times this […]
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