Please, these new rail lines that the government said it is building with Chinese loans, which one of them can I enter and ride back to the Year of Our Lord 1980? We read a story in one of our secondary school English textbooks about a time machine. One customer went to it, paid the […]
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I had intended to continue with the topic, ‘Nigeria and Presidential Democracy: Any Better Alternative? (3)’ but I had to suspend it; it is more of a proposal for the future. I had to look at what was immediate. Boko Haram (translated to mean Western education is a sin) advocates are threatening to overwhelm the […]
By Kabir Akingbolu For some time now, the media had become inundated with the news of allegations of financial improprieties or abuse of office by the erstwhile Chairman of the Economic Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) Mr. Ibrahim Magu. It is not in doubt that these allegations become so rife that the Attorney General of the […]
By Anjolaoluwa Folajimi For several years, late Chief Olusola Saraki, Waziri Ilorin reigned supreme in the Kwara State politics. From the second republic down to the present democratic dispensation, his name made or marred the political fortune of many aspirants in the State.His political clout transcend over three decades. The political legacy “Oloye” remained
If you are the President of this Federal Republic, and in the middle of a security briefing about the mayhem at Shasha, a security aide rushes in and informs you that bandits have kidnapped 27 students and their teachers at Kagara in Niger State, and before you could react, your secretary says the Governor of […]
By Mahmud Jega Dikko Abdullahi Inde, who died in an Abuja hospital on Thursday evening after a brief illness, did not have a happy retirement since he left the Nigeria Customs Service in August 2015, six years before he clocked the mandatory retirement age. Anti-corruption agencies charged him to court for alleged offences, and he […]
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