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6 Sep 2015
FEELING taller than a tree, Kenya President Uhuru Kenyatta said last week: “Our young people have once again shown that they are as good as the world’s best and brightest.”
6 Sep 2015
ASIWAJU Bola Ahmed Tinubu is a smart man. Until he was treacherously conspired against by sections of his party, the All Progressives Congress (APC), after the 2015 elections had been won and lost, Tinubu used to be one of Nigeria’s foremost political master strategists.
6 Sep 2015
OVER 200 years now that the obnoxious trade in human cargo was abolished in Badagry division of Lagos State reputed for the prominent role it played in the development, growth and abolition of the slave trade, to a greater extent, the division still remains in shackles of political victimisation and slavery.
6 Sep 2015
FOR some time now, Alaba had been badging his boss Mr. Trouble to please support his campaign that Nigerian universities set up chairs of Ignorance to ensure the grounding in the Nigerian persona of the extent and depth and height of Nigerian ignorance.
5 Sep 2015
THE Nigerian Export-Import Bank has over the years championed the development of non-oil sectors of the nation’s economy. These efforts have resulted in the diversification of Nigeria’s economy.
5 Sep 2015
Some call it the Buhari bounce. Others describe it as the Buhari effect. Yet some others say it is the Buhari aura. One thing is however crystal clear. Things have not been the same in the past 100 days in Nigeria, since Muhammadu Buhari assumed the presidency. A new sheriff has truly come to town.
4 Sep 2015
EVEN as an acting chair of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Mrs. Amina B. Zakari has gotten more than her fair share of bashing
4 Sep 2015
EVERY patriotic Nigerian should support President Muhammadu Buhari in his war against terror and its twin demon of corruption.
4 Sep 2015
IN his stimulating book, Outliers (2010) a pleasure to read for its clear prose and its vigorous intelligence, Malcolm Gladwell, one of America’s leading public intellectuals
4 Sep 2015
THE recent suspension of Mr. David Shikfu Parradang as the Comptroller-General (CG) of the Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS) with effect from August 21
3 Sep 2015
IT is a historical fact that Ile-Ife is the cradle of the Yorubas. In the life of the ancient city of Ile-Ife, two eminent and distinguished personalities dominated the landscape of the Yoruba nation for an uninterrupted period of 85 years. Titus Martins Adesoji Tadenianwo Aderemi (November 15, 1889 - July 7, 1980) was a…
3 Sep 2015
SINCE his inauguration on May 29, 2015 as elected civilian President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, Muhammadu Buhari has been striving hard to improve the security situation in Nigeria; he also has been fighting corruption with all his might as well as trying hard to revamp the Nigerian economy quietly.