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Festus Adedayo
A little over a week ago, Professor Wole Soyinka turned the attention of Nigerians from their current harrowing economic existence to one of the tyrannies that religion inflicts on them. Prof was apparently in his elements. For decades, he had fought battles of willful violations of human existence in various guises. Young Yakubu Gowon was one of the experiments Soyinka conducted on his intolerance for governmental tyranny.
Festus Adedayo
In the last few days since Nigeria’s new government announced an N8,000 palliative for 12 million poor Nigerian families, you would think that, all of a sudden, Nigerians had gone back in time to the Ayi Kwei Armah’s Ghanaian years. Or that the scales had just suddenly fallen off the people’s eyes. Criticisms, snide commentaries and comparative placements of this government, side by side the Muhammadu Buhari government’s similar policy failure, are pelted on Aso Rock Villa. Has the matrimony of barely eight weeks begun to manifest traces of rupture?
A two-year-old baby, Ivan Onose was shot dead and his brother, Injured during a raid on a drug joint in Asaba.
An Activist, Israel Joe reports that "2-year-old little Onose died yesterday after he was hit by a stray bullet alleged to have been shot by NDLEA men on duty.
"According to the father who spoke with newsmen, the men of NDLEA were alleged to be pursuing some guys who they said were into drugs and shot sporadically in the process.
....The SOLUDO SIGNATURE
By Chris Chikelue
Agriculture has been the main occupation of the core African "Nationales", and as such the practice could be dated back to the stone age when the main practice was subsistence farming which means all for food, feeding, and survival.
The practice gave birth to other forms of Agricultural practice because at some points the farmers produced more than they could eat or
Some road fittings installed on the newly commissioned Second Niger bridge have been stolen by vandals, The PUNCH can exclusively report.
In response, the Federal Government has ordered security personnel to begin surveillance patrols on the bridge and surroundings to prevent a recurrence.
By Christopher Enemuo
Due to the urgency in the adoption of problem-solving strategies, toward curing the insecurity in Nigeria, it will be unproductive for methods which are deployed to check crises are habitually not effective, effective approaches for problem solving should be diagnostic in application, which naturally give legitimacy to proactive resolutions, which are capable of solving certainties and unforeseen circumstances.
Mbah appoints Ladi Akeredolu-Ale Managing Director ESBS
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Enugu State Governor, Dr. Peter Mbah, has appointed Mr. Ladi Akeredolu-Ale, as the Managing Director of Enugu State Broadcasting Service (ESBS).
His appointment was contained in a statement signed by the Secretary to the State Government, Professor Chidiebere Onyia in Enugu.
Opinion: Asari’s Threat To His People, The Igbos
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I chose to look at things, not the traditional way because there are well-informed Nigerians who are doing good in the direction of seeing that Chief Asari Dokubo is called to order.
I believe there is a reason for the law enforcement agents playing calm; I do not believe that even in the government of President Asiwaju, that Asari is untouchab
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Apex Igbo socio-cultural organisation, Ohanaeze Ndigbo Youth Council Worldwide has faulted calls for the removal of the chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, Mr. Mahmood Yakubu.
A former Chairman of the Nigerian Bar Association, NBA, Olisa Agbakoba, SAN, had advised President Bola Tinubu to fire Yakubu.
