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The curious case of Gbaja and the Prince, by Rotimi Fasan

The curious case of Gbaja and the Prince, by Rotimi Fasan

If presidential spokesperson Bayo Onanuga is to be believed, the so called director, Adeyemi Adeniyi Matthew, of a so called Presidential Foreign Intervention Promotion Council or PFIPC should appear in court in about three weeks from now. That is on July 27 to answer multiple charges of impersonation and forgery. The issue centres around one […]
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Re: Death in the Mediterranean sea – Rose Moses

Re: Death in the Mediterranean sea – Rose Moses

Reading through your article in Vanguard of Saturday November 25, 2017 titled: “Death in the Mediterranean Sea” by Rose Moses? shows that the writer was obviously ignorant or deliberately mischievous in the submission.

Abdulrasheed Maina: The villain that would be a hero

Abdulrasheed Maina: The villain that would be a hero

There is a sense in which it has become clear that everyone within close distance of government now simply fishes for opportunity to defraud Nigerians; surely, Buhari has some explaining to do

Buhari, his endorsers and 2019

Buhari, his endorsers and 2019

IF we could call their brand of rulership governance, elected officials in Nigeria have just over four more weeks to do that. Thereafter they will give up the pretence that they are still interested in fulfilling their electoral promises and bringing the ‘dividends of democracy’ to the people.

Politics of Buhari’s re-election

Politics of Buhari’s re-election

THE signs get ever more evident that President Muhammadu Buhari is interested in being re-elected president in 2019. There is nothing wrong with this constitutionally. He is entitled to two terms in office, the Nigerian constitution says. That the question comes up at all owes much to the fact that until very recently very few people would have considered a Buhari presidency post-2019. The president had been ill for many months, taking no less than three so-called medical trips to the United Kingdom to seek medical attention even when Nigerians knew next to nothing about what ailed him.

Cost and consequences of grass cutting

Cost and consequences of grass cutting

Finally, something different happened. And that was after much public outcry! Indeed, after waiting patiently for President’s Muhammadu Buhari’s reaction on the humongous act of corruption by two of his principal aides; after being kept in the dark for months by a government said to be fighting corruption over serious corruption allegation around the necks of suspended Secretary to Government of the Federation (SGF), Babachir Lawal, and director- general of the National Intelligence Agency (NIA), Ayo Oke, the president, Monday, sacked the duo, a development received with mixed reactions.

Miyetti Allah: armed herdsmen, farmers and the struggle for contested space

Miyetti Allah: armed herdsmen, farmers and the struggle for contested space

ON this first day of November, 2017, a bill sponsored by the Benue State House of Assembly prohibiting open grazing of cattle goes into operation. The state government has vowed not to back down on the promulgation of this bill in spite of opposition from the herdsmen targeted by it.