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Yesterday, I argued thus: Every position, including the one seemingly novel, must be respected until set aside by the highest court of the land. Today, Mr Femi Falana, SAN, made the point that by virtue of Section 171 of the Constitution, the President does not need a confirmation of the Senate for the appointment of […]
As the dust raised by the current health status of President Muhammadu Buhari is yet to settle, some Nigerians have said his condition may not be unconnected to that which led to the death of former President, Umaru Musa Yar’Adua. Recall that Buhari has been on a 10-day vacation in the United Kingdom, UK, but […]
By Emman Ovuakporie and Johnbosco Agbakwuru Given the high sensitivity the All Progressives Congress, APC-led administration brought to bear in its war against graft; it is not surprising that Nigerians of all shadows would scrutinise the actions and inactions of the administration where issues of corruption are alleged. The champion of the war is President […]
The recent attempts by governor Bello of Kogi state to ignite romance with northern religious leaders may have potentially predisposed the state to endemic religious crisis regardless of its pious look. Governor Bello had invited the Sultan of Sokoto and the Emir of Zazzua alongside a renown Islamic scholar to commission an ongoing building in […]
Whenever he decides to relinquish his iron grip on the headship of African football, Cameroonian Issa Hayatou will be remembered as one man who had the opportunity to write his name in the pantheon of heroes, but stubbornly took another route and lost the slot. A former Cameroonian basketball player and 400m and 800m champion, […]
The anxiety and expectation were freezing, the excitement was fever pitched as enthusiastic fans looked forward to another football season filled with brilliance and razzmatazz. Day one pitched former champions Kano Pillars against federation cup and Charity cup winners FC Ifeanyi Ubah at the Sani Abacha stadium in Kano. Much was expected, the dignitaries have […]
I came to know about the predicament of late Titus Kehinde way back July, 2016 when it was brought to my attention and I spoke with him extensively to balance the story making the round that ethnic cleansing was going on in the state owned institutions. From him, I gathered he has been with the […]
When Feyisayo, a 36-year old trader and a single mother of three left her home in Imeri, a village in Ose local council area of Ondo State, to cast her ballot in the recently conducted governorship election in the State, it was not for the desire to vote in a government that will make her […]
Since Ondo state has started owing months of salaries, I have taken a second thought and reduce the level of criticism I do make on the person of Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola. In my widest imagination, I could not foresee Ondo state owing her workers months of salaries with huge resources available at her disposal coupled […]
Some workers in public and civil service in Kogi State have turned to begging to survive the hard economic realities in the State. It was observed that some workers, in a bid to cope with the harsh economic condition foisted on them by unpaid salaries, had devised different means to beg in order to fulfil […]
CHIBUZO UKAIBE, captures the evolving intrigues surrounding the political schemings ahead of the 2019 general election. Prospects of a new political party emerging ahead of 2019 has been rife. It had been a long held prediction (shortly after the 2015 general election) that a third force would rise from an inevitable crisis of confidence within […]
Recently, the social media was awashed with praise singing by Kogi State “government boys” who claimed the award of contract for the rehabilitation of Okene-Kabba road, Kabba-Omuo-Ekiti road and other strategic roads within Kogi west senatorial district was made possible by the mere visitation of the governor of Kogi State, Alh. Yahaya Bello to the […]
If Nigerians did not protest against the anti-social media law sponsored by Bala Ibn Na’allah, a member of the ruling All Progressives Congress from Kebbi State that made the Senate throw out the bill into the dustbin, Yahaya Bello, Kogi State governor, would have been one of Nigeria’s toughest governors towards journalists. One would have thought […]
People love it when you criticise some things which they do not believe in, practices which are contrary to what they practice or contrary views. They call you objective and truthful. But immediately you start disagreeing with their views, criticising their beliefs, expressing contrary views against what they support, they call you foul names, say […]