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Police brutality: He-of-the-springy-steps

Police brutality: He-of-the-springy-steps

By CHETA NWANZE Two events I came across yesterday captured the state of Nigeria’s police-public relations with unsettling clarity. In Port Harcourt, angry youths blocked Agip Road to protest the killing of Anthony Obodo, a 22-year-old University of Port Harcourt graduate murdered by a police officer. The youths’ anger is not hard to understand. The […]
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Day Gov Bello murdered sleep in Kogi

Day Gov Bello murdered sleep in Kogi

On Saturday, January 27, 2018, Governor Yahaya Bello of Kogi State marked second year in office. It was a low key celebration. Indeed, the Number one citizen of the Confluence State specifically directed his supporters, family and friends and top government officials not to place adverts nor mark the occasion with the usual fanfare associated with such anniversaries.

Abayomi Mumuni: A patriotic personality with uncommon achievements

Abayomi Mumuni: A patriotic personality with uncommon achievements

An achiever who would not blow his own trumpet but would rather want his achievements to speak for him, while helping to inspire the younger generations to greatness in their chosen professions, Ambassador Abayomi Mumuni is a testament to the fact that hard work and integrity give genuine success to whoever can imbibe them.

Fashola exposes President Buhari, his parrot, Lai Mohammed as liars – Reno

Fashola exposes President Buhari, his parrot, Lai Mohammed as liars – Reno

At various occasions since coming to power on May 29, 2015, both President Muhammadu Buhari and his lying parrot, Lai Mohammed, have attempted to sell the false narrative that the Jonathan administration and the Peoples Democratic Party, destroyed Nigeria’s economy and handed over a collapsed polity and are the reason for the current comatose condition of the nation’s fiscal and financial systems. 

Religious extremism and global genocide

Religious extremism and global genocide

By co-extensive reasoning “Islamic fundamentalism” cannot be truly fundamentalistic in countries or states that have strong pluralistic religious and political base except by force

Buhari, Winston Churchill and Obasanjo

Buhari, Winston Churchill and Obasanjo

Even before former President Olusegun Obasanjo released his now most famous letter I had my misgivings about how history would treat the government of Muhammadu Buhari. I once raised the issue with a senior colleague whom I know had similar fears about the trajectory of this government and he dismissed it in the following words: ‘I guess if the President goes on like this he might end up getting the Winston Churchill treatment’. I knew exactly what he was talking about. Winston Churchill was the 2nd World War hero who led Britain through some of their darkest hours to victory, but ended up defeated in the very first election after the war.