“In quarreling about the shadow we often lose the substance”.-Aesop (620-560 BC) In 2016, when MP Aman Khan became Mayor of London, a Nigerian Pastor sent out a post, that it was the culmination of a 25 years plan to islamise London by the worldwide Muslim organisation. Unknown to him, Khan is as British as […]
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Let me start by asking the question, “who is the common man; who is the average Nigerian Family”? It reminds me of an incident in 1974 when I participated in the design of an office building in Lagos. When I was trying to calculate the required number of car parking spaces, a member of the […]
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The North has made its choice with the election of General Muhammadu Buhari for another four years. The difference between Buhari’s votes and those of Atiku Abubakar is 3,928,869. Out of that figure, the South West’s contribution is 259,780. What percentage is that? The three zones in the North contributed more than 80 percent of […]
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On first look, not much separates the two front-runners contesting Nigeria’s presidential election. Both are men in their 70s with previous experience of high-level politics. Both are from the same ethnic group. And both are Muslims from the north of the country. Incumbent President Muhammadu Buhari, of the All Progressives Congress party, known […]
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The Chief of Army Staff (COAS) Lt. Gen. Tukur Yusuf Buratai has said. aside the conventional Boko Haram war, troops are fighting criminality in the Northeast, The COAS said the army was contending with forces that sabotage the war against insurgents, describing such forces as collaborators, informants and saboteurs. Gen. Buratai, who was reacting to […]
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FROM FEMI FANI-KAYODE “Air Chief Alex Badeh the former Chief of Defence Staff who called the Nigerian President, Mohammadu Buhari a “religious bigot” to his face was assasinated yesterday after he had threatened to expose the government over its involvement with Boko Haram prior to removing Jonathan. Just before he left office, he visited Maiduguri […]
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Surviving Nigerian soldier after the Metele massacre has claimed that contrary to statements by the Nigerian Army that 23 soldiers died in the recent attack by Boko Haram insurgents on the 157 Task Force Battalion in Borno State, no fewer than 200 people lost their lives in the incident. He also said that Boko Haram […]
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The number of soldiers killed recently in #Metele, Mobar Local Government Area, Borno state is still a subject of speculation with the federal government keeping mum on the issue, thereby fueling further speculation According to reports, the corpses of dozens of soldiers and civilian Joint Task force (JTF) members killed by #BokoHaram in Metele have […]
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Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, has said, he knows how Boko Haram started. In an interview with The African Reports, which he shared on his verified Twitter handle, @atiku, Atiku said that, politicians were to be blamed for the emergence of Boko Haram. When he was asked, how he […]
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BUSINESSDAY Nigeria pays higher interest rate on new $2.8 bn borrowing Political pressure may have suppressed release of Nigeria’s unemployment data IJINLE: Osun launches initiative to revive traditional Yoruba fashion FEC approves N30b contracts, 400 assault riffles for prisons BPE hires KPMG to advice on NIPOST overhaul Concerns heighten on government inability to guarantee food […]
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