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For 19 unbroken years, Nigeria Tuesday, celebrated another Democracy Day, also marking three years of the change regime of President Muhammadu Buhari.
Read More The ban on production of syrups containing codeine in Nigeria wasn’t exactly the topic I intended to write on this week. President Muhammadu Buhari’s recent visit to the United States of America (USA) actually looked more like it.
Read More Thomas Hobbes, the English philosopher had in his famous and influential book, Leviathan, written that life outside society is ‘solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.’
Read More You can describe Wednesday, April 18, 2018 anyhow you like, but it was indeed, a national day of opprobrium. Some would also say it was a national day of mourning. Or how does one describe a day the National Assembly, in broad day light, was under attack.
Read More When Bill Gates some weeks back, told Nigerian political elites that the country is one of the most dangerous places on earth to give birth, not many would have thought of the drama that played out in Akure, the Ondo State capital, the other week.
Read More Mr. Bill Gates’ visit last week was not the first neither will it be the last to the country, hopefully. But that one visit to the acclaimed giant of Africa kind of ruffled feathers. It more than ever spoke truth to governance, the type many of those holding the country down don’t want to hear.
Read More During the week, another form of drama played out in our national life. And I title it: ‘List of Treasury Looters of the Federal Republic,’ which was released to the public in two or three parts, technically.
Read More Mr. Bill Gates’ visit last week was not the first neither will it be the last to the country, hopefully. But that one visit to the acclaimed giant of Africa kind of ruffled feathers. It more than ever spoke truth to governance, the type many of those holding the country down don’t want to hear.
Read MoreIt won’t be out of place therefore to say that such government’s negligence is also responsible for the prevalence, these days in our society, of such dreaded diseases
Read More Lagosians, couple of weeks back, woke up to the news of a hyper-inflated increase in Land Use Charge (LUC), which was escalated upwards 400 per cent by the Lagos state government
Read More At the Senate the other week, another controversial subject was thrown into the political space as Senator Aliyu Sabi Abdullahi (APC, Niger) proposed a Bill seeking for establishment of an Independent National Commission for Hate Speeches.
Read More It would seem that the pun about Nigerians now waking up, daily, and wondering what exactly will be the next bad news, seems to be sticking, no longer as a joke but reality.
Read More Stories from Kaduna State in recent times have not been pleasant. In addition to the killings carried out mostly in the southern part of the state by suspected Fulani herdsmen, among others, the political crisis now rocking the state appears to have assumed a more dangerous dimension.
Read More Very strange things really do happen in Nigeria, and in quick succession, too. As the now popular saying goes, there’s no dull moment in the country.
Read More The term, ‘Police is your friend,’ must have been aimed at dispelling the fears and ‘false impressions’ the general public had about the police force in the past. That may have been so in the past and still so in the present because the force is easily the first place one runs to in time of emergency and danger. But all that depends on individual experiences.
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