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On the streets of Ibadan, there is an Aisha Suleiman from Kano State begging for alms. The about-22-year-old lady suffered a sudden divorce and everything around her collapsed. The only option she could thereafter think of was to move down south in search of hope – to do street begging. At a spot along the […]
Continue ReadingExtra cleaning took place as the podium where Bola Tinubu and Kashim Shettima were scheduled to take oath of office as President and Vice President of Nigeria, was hit by heavy rain. It was reported earlier that a heavy downpour was witnessed at the Eagle Square where the inauguration of Bola Tinubu as 16th President […]
Continue ReadingNigerian Supreme Court Friday dismissed the suit by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) seeking the disqualification of the ticket that produced the president-elect, Bola Tinubu and the vice-president-elect, Kashim Shettima in the 2023 presidential election. In an appeal marked SC/CV/501/2023, the opposition party sought Tinubu’s disqualification on grounds of the double nomination of his vice […]
Continue ReadingNigerian president, Muhammadu Buhari, on Thursday May 25, conferred the titles of Grand Commander of the Federal Republic (GCFR) and Grand Commander of the Order of Niger (GCON) honors on the president-elect Bola Ahmed Tinubu and his VP-elect, Kashim Shettima in Abuja. The GCFR is the highest honour to be conferred on anyone in Nigeria. […]
Continue ReadingIn March 2014, at a time Boko Haram terrorism ravaged the country, 12 northern Nigeria governors travelled all the way to Washington D.C. to make a case against President Goodluck Jonathan before his American counterpart Barack Obama. These governors, who got a chance to meet Obama’s National Security Adviser, Ms. Susan Rice, accused Jonathan of […]
Continue ReadingWith the inauguration of Biodun Abayomi Oyebanji as the governor of Ekiti State on October 16, 2022, Dr. John Kayode Fayemi has become the latest ex-governor who is succeeded by his handpicked favorite. But how long will the honeymoon between him and his successor last? Will Fayemi join the already long list of past governors […]
Continue ReadingNorthern Christian leaders in the All Progressives Congress (APC) and Northern Muslim political leaders said on Sunday that, to vote along religious lines in the 2023 general election may trigger negative consequences among Nigerians and threaten national development. By resolutions, they also agreed to adopt one of the presidential candidates in a bid to defeat […]
Continue ReadingOne hackneyed fallacy regularly bandied around in the Nigerian social media spheres is that people fail to retrospectively learn from their experiences because “history was removed from the Nigerian school curriculum.” As a cure for this inability to introspect, commentators suggest re-introducing history into the school curriculum. Listening to them, one gets the impression they […]
Continue ReadingAt the annual Nigerian Bar Association conference, several presidential candidates presented their respective agendas to the public. The Tuesday event was one of the few moments in this electioneering season when we will hear anything close to “issue-based” campaigns. By next month, when electioneering kicks off officially, one can expect to be assailed with a […]
Continue ReadingPresidential candidates of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, Labour Party (LP), Mr. Peter Obi as well as the Vice Presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Senator Kassim Shettima, on Monday graced the current Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) annual conference in Lagos, Nigeria, where they respectively decried the state of the […]
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