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Enugu, Governors, Headlines, South-East, State News
Tuesday, October 5th, 2021
Disturbed by the current alarming insecurity in South East Nigeria, governors and leaders of the zone will on Tuesday, October 5, 2021, converge in Enugu State for an “urgent meeting to deliberate the unfortunate development. The ugly development has resulted in the deaths of several people in the region, including the recent killing of Dr. […]
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Africa & World Politics
Tuesday, October 5th, 2021
The International Organisation for Migration (IOM) has said that 538 illegal migrants were rescued off the Libyan coast and returned to Libya in the past week. “From Sept. 26 to Oct. 2, 538 migrants were rescued/intercepted at sea and returned to Libya,’’ IOM said. So far this year, a total of 25,823 illegal migrants, including […]
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Headlines
Tuesday, October 5th, 2021
The global economy lost billions of dollars as Facebook, WhatsApp, Instagram as it shut down at about 4.42pm on Monday. According to NetBlocks, which tracks internet outages and their impact, the outage had already cost the global economy about $160m per hour. Facebook stock had gone down by about 5.5 per cent. The Chief Executive […]
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Education, Headlines, Lagos, State News
Sunday, October 3rd, 2021
With the appointment of professor of Physiology, Ibiyemi Olatunji-Bello, as the ninth substantive vice-chancellor of Lagos State University, experts have silenced critics, proving her appointment was based on merit and not ethnicity. Funmi Ogundare reports The appointment of Prof. Ibiyemi Olatunji-Bello as the ninth substantive vice-chancellor of the Lagos State University (LASU) has been a […]
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Headlines
Sunday, October 3rd, 2021
POLITICAL NOTES At this rate, it’s about time Nigeria’s obviously lazy political class needed to halt their pilgrimage to London, the United Kingdom, where they have been trooping for some time now to visit one of their leaders, Senator Bola Tinubu, who is currently recuperating in the city. It’s okay to identify with anyone who’s […]
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Governors, Headlines, Rivers, State News
Sunday, October 3rd, 2021
THE ATIKU, WIKE, FINTIRI GAME October 3, 2021 On Wednesday, September 29, 2021, at the Akwa Ibom Governor’s residence in Abuja, 12 Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) governors in a meeting, zoned the party chairmanship to the north. Some politicians were quick to assert that the governors’ decision did not in any way affect the party’s […]
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Governors, Headlines, Kaduna, State News
Sunday, October 3rd, 2021
BRIEFINGNOTES Following Governor Nasir el-Rufai’s recent statement that the anti-open grazing laws enacted by his southern colleagues are not implementable, Ejiofor Alike writes that it is only in a faulty federation that the head of one federating unit can make comments to demean the position of his colleagues and interfere in the laws made in […]
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Armed Forces, Headlines, Kano, Navy, State News
Saturday, October 2nd, 2021
Ali M. Ali I watched with growing consternation the opposition to the establishment of a Naval ‘base’’ in Kano. The decision followed the approval by the Navy Council to establish three such bases in Lekki, Oguta and Kano. The one in Kano appears to be the one causing bellyache. It has raised a lot of […]
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Governors, Headlines, Kogi, Kwara, State News
Saturday, October 2nd, 2021
Olaoluwakitan Babatunde Prominent clerics, religious leaders and eminent sons and daughters of Ilorin Emirate in Kwara State have asked Governors in Nigeria to adopt the strategy used by Governor Yahaya Bello of Kogi State in tackling insecurity in his state, for the country at large. This call was made at a special prayer for the […]
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Headlines
Saturday, October 2nd, 2021
DIALOGUE WITH NIGERIA By Akin Osuntokun In 2013, an indignant Dr. Hakeem Baba-Ahmed wrote of a moving encounter he had with the Madiba, President Nelson Mandela in 2007.The subject matter of the encounter was appropriately Nigeria on which the two shared identical views. I will presently recall excerpts and lessons cited approvingly by Baba-Ahmed of […]
