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Tragedy in custody: The deaths of young miners in Niger State

Tragedy in custody: The deaths of young miners in Niger State

By OWOLOLA ADEBOLA In the early hours of 17 September 2026, a grim discovery was made in Minna, capital of Nigeria’s mineral-rich Niger State. Thirty-seven young men and boys, arrested days earlier on suspicion of illegal mining, were found dead in the custody of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC). Many of the […]
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Re: Deconstructing the debt story

Re: Deconstructing the debt story

A man who can’t tell where the rain began to beat him cannot know where he dried his body — An Igbo epigram IT comes as a pleasant coincidence. Just a few days after the Ogun State governor, Senator Ibikunle Amosun, cleared the air on the state’s debt profile, drawing plaudits from the vast majority […]

Re: Kemi Adeosun’s Deconstructing the debt story

Re: Kemi Adeosun’s Deconstructing the debt story

It is important that public officeholders clarify the issues that citizens are distraught about and a key element has been the case of rising public debt. Kemi’s Adeosun piece comes in the context of the well-rehashed situation that the current administration met the country.

Lewdpapers or Newspapers?

Lewdpapers or Newspapers?

IT troubles one to observe that Nigeria’s clean weekday newspapers metamorphose into lewdpapers at weekends. Saturday and Sunday when you look forward to domestic company with child-friendly weeklies, you are trapped in an oppressive nightmare, wrestling with nudepapers. They flaunt naked images of female bodies not healthy for impressionable young minds.

On the NGO regulation bill

On the NGO regulation bill

ANOTHER controversy is ranging in the National Assembly, as a result of the contentious bill sponsored by the Deputy Majority Leader of the House of Representatives, Umar Buba Jibril, representing Lokoja/Kogi Federal Constituency.