A report by the All Progressives Congress (APC) asking the Muhammadu Buhari administration to discard the Petroleum Industry Bill (PIB) is not only unfortunate but is one that will also embolden oil multinationals to continue their impunity which has polluted the Niger Delta and eroded Nigeria’s revenues, the Environmental Rights Action/ Friends of the Earth […]
Continue ReadingABIMBOLA ADELAKUN : Lies and myths are regularly woven around leaders, some tending towards an apotheofication, but that of President Muhammadu Buhari is getting too frequent to be useful. Buhari’s mythopoeia preceded him into office and the fantasies fashioned about him are being currently employed to oil the flagging wheels of his presidency. His adoring […]
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The All Peoples Congress (APC), on Tuesday, listed eight-point achievements of President Muhammadu Buhari in the last 30 days he assumed office. The party, at a press conference addressed by its national publicity secretary, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, insisted that contrary to what was being peddled in some quarters, “I can tell you that there has […]
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Ena Ofugara: Let me just point out how pipelines run through Niger Delta villages. In Sapele, at Ugberikoko we sit on it to gist. Gas is pumped to the power station there which gives you electricity. Shell (or the new buyers) flares gas at ground level in same Ugberikoko. I do not know who is […]
Continue ReadingPRESIDENT Muhammadu Buhari has expressed regrets that he did not become the president at a younger age as there is a limit to what he can do at the age of 72. He made the assertion on Monday while addressing members of the Nigerian community in Johannesburg, South Africa, where he also vowed that the […]
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By Alabi Williams: The APC craft has encountered bad weather in two weeks and has thus refused to fly. Despite much vaunted propaganda and hunger for power at the centre, there is now strong evidence that the All Progressives Congress is not in a hurry to cure a congenital deficiency, that of debilitating incongruity, just […]
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By Favour Afolabi: It is an open secret that the five governors that funded the activities of the APC the most over the course of the last two years were those of Lagos, Rivers, Kano, Osun and Imo – and it is very apparent from the challenges those states are facing today that “the monies […]
Continue ReadingThe All Progressives Congress (APC) maybe heading for doom following the rejection of Senator Bukola Saraki and Honourable Yakubu Dogara as Senate President and Speaker of the House of Representatives reapectively. But President Mohamadu Buhari in a move that shocked APC leaders however differed from the APC position and pledged to work with the new […]
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By Dr. Wumi Akintide: There is no way Buhari is going to meet the huge expectations of Nigerians if he continues to drag his feet and simply look the other way all because he wants to be too careful and painstaking in taking decision. I know there is a limit to how much we can […]
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By Femi Aribisala : Buhari has been running for president for the last 14 years. Nevertheless, listening to his inaugural speech, it is clear he does not have a clue what exactly to do when in office. President Buhari tried to make us understand during the presidential election campaign that he is not the Buhari […]
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