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THE trip was not planned. As concerns over the spread of COVID-19 grew and the country inched more and more towards the abnormal, I figured travel might be restricted before the end of the week. A call that Tuesday morning confirmed that feeling: I decided to travel out of Abuja immediately. What I saw at
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IN a world where laughter is already in short supply, the outbreak and rapid spread of Coronavirus has only left us all the more depleted. The world, as we know it, has been turned on its head. Yet, in this once-in-a-lifetime experience, we have examples of fate using tragedy to write the book of humour.
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Politicians are often very intolerant of contrary views to theirs. If one differed from them on any issue one automatically became an enemy — Oba Sikiru Adetona THE day after Governor Abdullahi Ganduje dethroned Mohammad Sanusi II, Sarkin Kano and banished him, the question that kept coming back to me was: what is going on
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IF words could make the dead turn in their grave, the founder of the Oodua People’s Congress, OPC, Dr Frederick Fasehun, would have rolled over last week, caught between amusement and surprise at a remarkable statement during the first-anniversary lecture of his passing. On that occasion, former President Olusegun Obasanjo warned that the country risked
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IF there was dividend for controversy, the stock of the Oluwo of Iwo, Oba Abdul-Rasheed Akanbi, would be perhaps the most bullish among investors in royalty, coming next in demand to that of the Emir of Kano, Sanusi Lamido Sanusi. The Oluwo of Iwo cannot help staying out of controversy, and he goes the extra
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Supreme Court: NOT a few politicians are beginning to have second thoughts about what may be the sure path to electoral success in future. The traditional model, which was godfather plus moneybags, and then crisscrossing the country squawking like fowls with broken beaks, appears to be old school and in rapid decline. After Hope Uzodinma’s
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ON a hot, dusty harmattan day last week, the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, loaded its gun and pulled the trigger, terminating 74 political parties. The grieving remnants were left to bury their dead in what seemed a most unkind Valentine gift. A number of the leaders of the affected parties have refused to be
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ONE week after the Supreme Court overturned the election of Emeka Ihedioha of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, as governor of Imo State and installed Hope Uzodinma of the All Progressives Congress, APC, nine lawmakers in the state house of assembly abandoned their party and joined the “winning team”. Four of them were elected on
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THE boy whose mother was hounded to her death by the paparazzi has come of age. And he is reminding the British establishment of everything it has tried desperately to forget about that tragedy, and more.
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The boy whose mother was hounded to her death by the paparazzi has come of age. And he is reminding the British establishment of everything it has tried desperately to forget about that tragedy and more. Harry, still addressed as His Royal Highness and Duke of Sussex at the time, was not supposed to remember.
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