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Oriire and the courage to reject compromise, by Rotimi Fasan

After 56 harrowing days, the 44 abductees in the Oriire community of Ogbomoso LGA are now out of the forest. These are schoolchildren and their teachers. Two of the teachers had been killed after the abduction while another was killed on their school ground. A commercial bike rider was also killed as the abduction unfolded. But […]
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The failure side of Muhammadu Buhari

This annual ritual of pain preceded Buhari’s arrival as a tenant in Aso Villa. It was in fact part of what he was elected to correct. That he has not been able to do anything about it should be a matter of shame to his administration

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

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

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

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

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.

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