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Agenda for all round national development

IT is a happy homecoming for  me 30 years after I spoke at Oduduwa hall as a guest of the OAU Students Union. It was at the height of the advocacy for mass action by Nigerian students who were being galvanized against the Structural Adjustment Programme, SAP, of the military administration.

NASS’ threat to impeach PMB (1) ‘I think the impeachment move is a political threat’

It’s not a threat, but a motion that is about to commence. If Buhari is not impeached in the next three months, there will be no elections from the look of things. It will shock Nigerians to note that as for now, we are undergoing total breakdown of law and order with the Buhari executive’s excesses over NASS and the Judiciary. He must be impeached to restore confidence on our economy by the international community because they have lost confidence in Nigeria.

UPU pioneers and Urhobo ancestors would be proud of Taiga

THE attention of Urhobo Historical Society has been drawn to an opinion piece in Vanguard(30/5/2018, p. 18), titled “UPU: Urhobo ancestors are in tears.” It seeks to defame the current President General of Urhobo Progress Union, Olorogun Moses Taiga, by falsely claiming that he is not an Urhobo man.

Can we truly change?

Definitely, change will come to this part of our world; will it be in the lifetime of the current crop of leadership or will it be left for our children and grandchildren?

Dankwambo: A man to watch

A former accountant-general of the federation, JK Naiyeju had an interesting story to tell the other day. As he narrated it to an audience inside one of the cavernous halls of Oriental Hotel in Lagos that day, he was on a visit to his successor in that office, Ibrahim Hassan Dankwambo, who is now the governor of Gombe State, and he had barely sat down when his eyes caught something that struck him: neatly stacked on one side of the governor’s desk was the complete volume of the writings of the late sage, Chief Obafemi Awolowo. All, without exception.

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