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Famadewa, Ribadu and the 90-day security plan: Unpacking Onanuga’s release

Famadewa, Ribadu and the 90-day security plan: Unpacking Onanuga’s release

When the Presidential Spokesman, Bayo Onanuga, announced that President Bola Tinubu had constituted an eleven‑man committee to develop a National Threat Assessment and a Strategic Defence Operations Plan within ninety days, with about four months to the general elections, several things struck me even before I reached the substance of the directive.
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If  Hillary Clinton had been elected, she would have strengthened gay marriage – Reno

If Hillary Clinton had been elected, she would have strengthened gay marriage – Reno

What are our cultural values as a Race? Do we as Black people, whether African American or Black African, really support gay rights and gay marriage? Trust our copy cat culture, if Hillary had been elected she would have strengthened the gay marriage lobby and her Supreme Court nominees would have made it a reality and the next thing you know we would want to copy it hook line and sinker.

Death of Soyinka’s Ekpemupolo

Death of Soyinka’s Ekpemupolo

I AM not turned out by Mieka Dive Institute at Kurutie, neither am I ABAGIDI the famous diver of Obotebe kingdom, yet from the deep ululating, dancing, clangorous, clattering and kpekekpeke waters of Gbaramatu kingdom I emerge and write today ‘prompted by two items on my table at this moment’ (The Man Died, 1). Wole Soyinka is in tears.

Law School and NOUN Law graduates

Law School and NOUN Law graduates

COUNCIL of Legal Education,CLE, was established by the Federal government as a body to administer vocational training to all law graduates from universities accredited by the National Universities Commission, NUC, aspiring to practice as advocates and solicitors of the Supreme Court of Nigeria.

Mabel Akpuaka: Amazon of excellence

Mabel Akpuaka: Amazon of excellence

PROFESSOR Mabel Ukachi Akpuaka is a distinguished chemist, teacher, mother and role model to many. She loves to find company among productive people or things that make other things happen.

Raid on justices justified?: Time to review some cases

Raid on justices justified?: Time to review some cases

The recent raid on the homes of some judges across the country brings to mind some of the cases that were delivered in the recent past and one wonders if everything possible was done to ensure justice or if the D.S.S is justified in its actions.

1885 and 1985: Nigeria can still fail (2)

1885 and 1985: Nigeria can still fail (2)

SUCCESSIVE Federal governments have been sustained on a tripod of Deceit, Denial, and Delusion(3Ds). A philosophy that has undermined all the fundamentals of good government and governance viz.- National Planning, Economic Resources management, National Security, Education etc. etc.

Let’s embrace merit for once

Let’s embrace merit for once

A COUNTRY that does not embrace merit in carrying out its affairs will never get out of the starting blocks. The examples are too numerous to mention. In Mao Tse-tung’s China, children were separated from their biological parents to avoid issues related to sentiments, where is China today? At the top.