PUNCH Trump trial evidence could change minds, says Biden Meghan Markle wins privacy claim against UK newspaper Buhari hasnt done well on security, says Ortom Nwoko petitions IGP, DSS, alleges remanded suspects after his life, wife Omo-Agege absent as APC panel meets Keyamo, Ogboru, others Workers, members flee as explosions rock Rivers PDP secretariat Newly […]
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…it is difficult to ignore the unavailability of a strong voice in the north championing the cause of the innocent out-of-school children in the region. Granted that cattle are of economic value to herders, children are actually the future of this country. If Nigeria gives half the attention it has been giving to cattle in […]
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How ironic that, today, it is the Fulani who lack leaders to guide them and pursue their interests through legal ways. Please, do’n’t mention “Miyetti Allah”, which is a cattle-breeders’ association. I have never owned a cow in my life, and I don’t intend to, meaning I have no business with Miyetti Allah. (“Mi Yetti […]
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A week after he stuttered at the vice-presidential debate in Abuja, as result of functioning in Lai’s lane, Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo was at the palace of the Alaafin of Oyo last weekend to shred whatever vestige of credibility he has left for crass political opportunism. The otherwise cerebral professor did not have to stammer […]
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Nigerians are a funny lot. They always leave a burning house to chase after escaping rodents and we can see that in the unfolding scenario around the Ekiti gubernatorial election. Now, there are accusations and counter-accusations about rigging, vote buying of the “see and buy” variety, ballot box snatching, violence and all that. But, in […]
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(Communique of Afenifere General Assembly, June 2018) The General Assembly of Afenifere met at the Akure home of the Leader, Chief R.F Fasoranti today after exhaustive deliberations on the state of the Nation adopted the following communique: 1, Plateau Genocide and President Buhari’s conflict of Interest :Meeting was devastated by the genocide that took place […]
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A COLONY OF ANY TYPE AND IN ALL PERIODS OF HISTORY AND A SETTLEMENT ARE INSEPARABLE FROM EACH OTHER To us here in Nigeria, a colony is nothing new. The colony of Lagos established by the British in 1861 has familiarised us to it. But our acquaintance with it goes much further back to the […]
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The Emir of Kano, Muhammadu Sanusi II, says he personally gave the Federal Government pictures of 800 Fulani herdsmen and their families that were killed in Taraba State last year but the government had yet to take action. He added that the killings in the Middle Belt were being perpetrated by both the herdsmen […]
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I would have loved to wish you a happy new year, but I am not a hypocrite. I am not happy and nobody in Benue is happy today, because many of our citizens did not have a happy new 2018. Genocide on citizens of Nigeria has escalated in earnest in Benue State. This genocide has […]
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Survivors and victims of fulani herdsmen attacks in Logo and Ukum council areas in Benue State have been recounting how 81 persons were killed in the last two weeks. The traditional ruler of Logo, Chief Jimmy Meeme, who spoke to Channels Television on the invasion of rural communities said 70 persons were killed in six […]
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