Category: Big Read
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DÉJÀ VU – In tragic vein, By Wole Soyinka
By Wole Soyinka To the affected governors all over the nation, there is one immediate step to take: demand the withdrawal of those soldiers. Convoke Town Hall meetings as a matter of urgency. 24-hr Curfews are not the solution. Take over the security of your people with whatever resources you can rummage. Substitute community…
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Reasons to dismiss 2021 Budget as a joke (Part 1), By Dele Sobowale
“We do many things at the federal level that would be considered dishonest and illegal if done in the private sector. Donald T Regan. 1986. Donald Regan was US Secretary of the Treasury (equivalent to our own Minister of Finance), from 1981-85 and Chief of Staff from 1985-87 for the Reagan administration. He was familiar…
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I am not ready to marry a young lady- Ebenezer Obey
Revered veteran musician, Ebenezer Obey has opened up on his plan to remarry. TheNewsGuru recalls that the music maestro lost his wife of more than four and half decades in 2011. In an interview with The Nation, the commander as he is fondly called by his fans revealed his plan to get married again Hear…
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Buhari and the new gang of super Nigerians, By Mideno Bayagbon
By Mideno Bayagbon Recently the president, General Muhammadu Buhari was inundated with letters from some Nigerians and social cultural groups. Three of these letters written by Colonel Umar Dangiwa, a former military governor; the Northern Consultative Forum and by Chief Edwin Kiagbodo Clarke need detain our attention today given the issues they addressed. The…
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Post Covid-19, Nigerians prepare for the worst time of your life – Mideno Bayagbon
By Mideno Bayagbon For critical observers, for a long time now, it has been an open secret that Nigeria is possibly headed for an economic, social and political implosion. But unmoved by such concerns, we continue to run the world’s most profligate, most insensitive government. The discerning and the rest of the world watch, in…