By Dele Sobowale Manufacturing declines as 2.27% GDP growth surpasses IMF projection—Punch, Tuesday, February 25, 2020, p 35. FOR a country so long starved of any good news, even a minor triumph must be celebrated by all of us. A buoyant economy is, after all, still one of the pillars of a good society – […]

Crusoe Osagie, the man whose role is to advise Governor Obaseki’s government on Media and Communication, continues to flog a dead horse in a morbid hope to ride a false and buried narrative. Crusoe Osagie is found forwarding unsolicited texts across social media platforms, reminding members that the 700 million naira scandal court case of Pastor Osagie Ize-Iyamu is coming up.

As part of activities marking his 3 years in office, Ondo state governor, Arakunrin Oluwarotimi Akeredolu, will today at 7pm appear on the state-owned television and radio stations to engage his people. 

I read Etim Etim’s piece titled ‘The Hawks are Circling at NDDC Again’ published in Thisday of February 28, 2020, and came away shaking my head at the tragic ingenuity of the writer’s logic as he laboured to absolve his principal, Senator Godswill Akpabio, the Niger Delta Minister, of the mess that he has created in the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC).

TRADITIONAL Rulers in the Osun Central and West senatorial districts have urged Governor Gboyega Oyetola to immediately implement the recommendations of the committee on education review and return the schools to their previous positions.