Category: Editor’s Pick
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VAT yesterday, today and forever – Dele Sobowale
By Dele Sobowale “FG, States, LGs share N601bn for November.” News Report, December 2020. Truth is constant; and wisdom is enduring. The amount shared by the three tiers of government for November, which will determine whether or not public servants will be fully paid their salaries for December 2020, is 14 per cent less than…
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Speaking to mountains – Femi Aribisala
Femi Aribisala A few months ago, God gave us a word of prophecy in Healing Wings. He said: “A storm is coming.” The obvious question was: “Why did He give us this word? What were we supposed to do?” Just as he predicted, the storm came in the form of the EndSARS protests that engulfed…
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Trump: Leaving world politics worse than he met it, By Owei Lakemfa
By Owei Lakemfa PRESIDENT Donald Trump is a joke carried too far. He is a problem child the United States imposed on the universe. There is an African saying that if you give birth to a problem child, it is your responsibility to keep such child in check. Americans formally performed that onerous responsibility…
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Christmas musings – Francis Ewherido
By Francis Ewherido In six days’ time, it will be another Christmas. I have peeped out of my window severally and I did not see the usual atmosphere of Christmas. I went through the streets and I could not see the usual hustle and bustle associated with Christmas festivities. I still see the crippling Lagos…
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Illegal Bank Charges and the Rule of Law, By Sonnie Ekwowusi
By Sonnie Ekwowusi When last did you check the bank charges slammed on you by your bank to ascertain whether they are appropriate charges or not? If you have not formed the habit of assessing your bank charges better start off today otherwise your bank will be slowly and steadily stealing your money in the…
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Marriage: Wrong Choice, a “Killer” Pitfall, By Michael West
By Michael West The season is here again. Adult singles are usually in frenzied mood for life partners or companions, as it were, during yuletide. Festive periods seem to spike anxiety as pressure on them by family members, parents in particular, do increase. It is legitimate to be married, happy and be fulfilled but…
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The Sam Nda-Isaiah I knew – Azu Ishiekwene
Azu Ishiekwene I first met him after the 2003 election, which his candidate, General Muhammadu Buhari, lost. I was then Editor of PUNCH and Sam Nda-Isaiah, was founding member and Publicity Secretary of The Buhari Organisation (TBO). He came to see me about the coverage of Buhari, which obviously displeased him. He barged into my…
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The call of Nigerian Content from Bayelsa, By Chido Nwakanma
Slowly but steadily, Nigerian or Local Content is becoming familiar and accepted terminology in the oil and gas sector that drives the Nigerian economy. As the Nigerian Content Development & Monitoring Board (NCDMB) pursues its mandate, it creates opportunities for many more Nigerians to participate in the sector that drives the economic fortunes of the…
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#BringBackOurBoys: The Kankara kidnap, one kidnap too many – Ozioma Onyenweaku
By Ozioma Onyenweaku It was in 2014 that we woke up to the news of the abduction of over 200 girls from a girls’ school in Chibok. After all the hues and cries over the abduction, the girls remain missing more than 6 years after. With all the security paraphernalia Nigeria can boast of, actions…
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That Zombie Order on NIN-SIM integration – Chido Nwakanma
By Chido Nwakanma Our Federal Government has gone mad again. It is difficult to draw any other conclusion upon news of the inexplicable FG order to telecom operators to block from their networks all users without the National Identification Number in two weeks, meaning from 30 December 2020. It has neither rhyme nor reason. The…