NIGERIA President, Muhammadu Buhari surely meant well for the Nigerian people. His integrity, discipline and avowed commitment to fight, name and shame corruption had never been in doubt since Nigerians have high hopes in his administration to ‘fight corruption among the elites’, in a bid to free Nigeria’s economy from Kleptomaniac. As it is a […]
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Former aide to Ahmed Tinubu, Segun Ayobolu, who is currently for The Nation newspaper, has accused President Muhammadu Buhari of negating the change mantra the party stands for. Ayobolu, Tinubu’s Chief Press Secretary and Special Adviser on Information and Strategy on Health to Raji Fashola the immediate past governor of Lagos on said Buhari’s five […]
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The biggest problem facing most African leaders is their inability to learn from history. I would have urged our dear President Muhammadu Buhari to watch the soap opera called “The Father and His Son”. This is a true life story of former President Goodluck Jonathan (outside power) and his “father”, Chief E K Clark. The […]
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By Obi Nwakanma: A wise man once told me: “Nigerians are mules, everyone who can, kicks at them.” The thing is, the more things change, the more they feel the same. In 1984, Major-General Muhamadu Buhari as military tyrant diagnosed “indiscipline” as Nigeria’s national malaise. The sexy power word in those days was “summarily.” Buhari […]
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Leading up to this year’s elections, as Boko Haram stepped up its perverse campaign and terrorized, the All Progressive Congress, APC, found its niche to discredit the efforts of the Goodluck Jonathan administration. It hauled, through various means, disparaging assessment of the former President. Nigerians bought in and handed the government to the APC on […]
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By Gabriel Patterson Today, it behooves Me as a reformist minded Young-Man and an Ardent Crusader for “Social-Justice and Equality” to moralize on the APC in order to bring their deceit, fraudulent approach to national problems which in part was created by some of their members (like those who promised to make Nigeria ungovernable and […]
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Ena Ofugara: So in this shop, this salesgirl goes out and woos customers and they come in droves and the goods are bought and oversubscribed. The store is rated number one in Africa and also moved from poor shop to middle earning shop. The manager’s name, JOnathan. Now the shop owners hear tales of how […]
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· At least 1,600 civilians killed by Boko Haram in last 4 months · More than 3,500 civilians killed by Boko Haram in 2015 · Nigeria yet to investigate military abuses · Almost 400 civilians and dozens of security personnel killed by Boko Haram in Cameroon since January 2014 Despite advances by the military, attacks […]
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by Chinedu Nwosu Someone once said that when it comes to lies, the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) (and its national publicity secretary, Alhaji Lai Mohammed) holds a first class degree, I don’t think any smart Nigerian will dispute that fact. It is close to seven months after winning the March elections and four months […]
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The federal government in extra budgetary expenditure in 2015 spent a staggering N222.1 billion to end the fuel scarcity that crippled the country till July this year, without recourse to the National Assembly. Nigeria’s finance ministry made the disclosure in a presentation before the House of Representatives ad-hoc committee probing the non-implementation of capital projects […]
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