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Two tributes in one – Ajibola and Attah

On January 26, 20205:12 amIn Frankly Speakingby Urowayino Jeremiah

For me, this is already a happy year. Most newspapers now have annual awards for various individuals for different reasons. I have been opposed to the idea when it first started. To some extent, I am still very much in doubt regarding whether we are doing the right thing. Mainly, I object because the criteria, just like those of the National Awards, are not often clear. Individuals with absolutely atrocious or questionable records of achievement have been honoured. Governors are the most notorious in this regard. Some of the ex-governors who made the list in the past are now in jail for embezzling public funds. Easily debunked ‘Unusual Transformation’ in a particular state has not stopped a propagandist from receiving encomiums as a great achiever. Certainly, annual awards have been abused and the history of Nigeria distorted. We have given honour to several who are not due.

I wholeheartedly agree with Lai Mohammed

On January 19, 20208:53 amIn Frankly Speakingby Urowayino Jeremiah

“Buhari has driven corruption under the table” – Lai Mohammed.—DAILY INDEPENDENT, January 2, 2020, p 13.
Wonders never cease.

Nigeria is losing a whole generation to unemployment

Terrorists are not dividing us, you are sir

On January 13, 202010:47 amIn Frankly Speakingby Urowayino Jeremiah

By Dele Sobowale “We should under no circumstances let terrorists divide us by turning Christians against Muslims because those barbaric killers don’t represent Islam and millions of other law-abiding Muslims around the world” – President Buhari after Muslims slaughtered Christians on December 25, 2019. “A leader is best When people barely know he exists Not
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Andimi: Fury, as Boko Haram beheads CAN chair in Adamawa

Terrorists are not dividing us, you are sir

On January 12, 20204:47 amIn Frankly Speakingby Nwafor

“We should under no circumstances let terrorists divide us by turning Christians against Muslims because those barbaric killers don’t represent Islam and millions of other law-abiding Muslims around the world” – President Buhari after Muslims slaughtered Christians on December 25, 2019.

Brace up for leadership, Buhari urges Nigerian youths

Must one be called Abubakar or Mohammed to get appointed by Buhari?

On January 6, 20208:33 amIn Frankly Speaking, Trendingby Urowayino Jeremiah

Fowler for those who might not know is from Lagos State and he was replaced by an Abubakar not from Lagos State. From the statement credited to Garba Shehu, who was just a loudspeaker and not one of the “we” who removedFowler, one would assume that Fowler was given definite revenue generation targets for each year in office which he failed to achieve.

Is APC still the answer? – 2

On December 29, 20196:02 amIn Frankly Speaking, Newsby Urowayino Jeremiah

“To know that which before us lies in daily life/Is the prime wisdom/What is more is fume” – John Milton, VANGUARD BOOK OF QUOTATIONS, VBQ.

Royal Rumble: Ekiti APC Chair alleges threat to life, petitions CP

The sad fate of southerners in APC

On December 22, 20196:33 amIn Frankly Speakingby Urowayino Jeremiah

Robert Fowler representing Lagos State is out as the head of the Federal Internal Revenue Service, FIRS. He was replaced by Abubakar. In another development, a former boss of the Social Intervention Programme, SIP – a fellow from Ogun State – was not only removed as the administrator of the legacy programme of the Buhari government, the job was taken North. In addition, about 30 aides of the former Oga were shoved out of Aso Rock. The Chairman of the All Progressives Congress, APC, from Edo State now owes his survival in that position to one word from the President. If Buhari says “Go”, it is back to Edo or exile out of Nigeria.

Maryam Babangida (Nov. 1948-Dec. 2009): The first of our first ladies

On December 15, 20195:52 amIn Frankly Speaking, Newsby Urowayino Jeremiah

Simplicity. Sincerity. Strength. Splendour. Those four words summarise the life and times of Nigeria’s most remarkable First Lady. When Maryam Babangida (nee Okogwu), born on November 1, 1948, passed away on December 27, 2009, at the Jonson Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of California, Los Angeles, USA, her death served as a reminder to all of us of our mortality. But, the public life she lived in the span of eight years during which she was Nigeria’s First Lady re-echoed the words of the poet: “Lives of great men [and women] remind us/ that we also can make our lives sublime/ and departing leave behind us/Footprints on the sands of time.”

Today and our yesterday as a nation

On December 8, 20198:05 amIn Frankly Speaking, Newsby Urowayino Jeremiah

By Dele Sobowale “The moving finger writes; and having writ, moves on. Nor all your piety, nor wit shall lure it back to cancel half a line; nor all your tears wash out a word of it” – Omar Khayyam, 1123AD, VANGUARD BOOK OF QUOTATIONS, p 57. Plutarch, 46-120, one of the greatest historians, introduced
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Don’t blame the executive, blame the judiciary, legislature

On December 1, 20193:41 amIn Frankly Speaking, Newsby Urowayino Jeremiah

“Decency, security and liberty alike demand that government officials shall be subjected to the same rules of conduct that are commands to the citizen. In a government of laws, existence of the government will be imperilled if it fails to observe the law scrupulously. Our government is the potent, the omnipresent teacher. For good or ill, it teaches the whole people by its example. Crime is contagious. If government becomes a lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for law; it invites every man to become a law unto himself. It invites anarchy” – US Supreme Court Justice, Louis D Brandeis, 1856-1941, in the OLMSTEAD case, 1928.