Category: Editor’s Pick
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Threats To Lives: Ehanire, Where Is Our Covid-19 Vaccine? Magashi, Where Are The Killer Herdsmen?, By Magnus Onyibe
By Magnus Onyibe The level of insecurity in our country is at such a frightening stage that in a recent travel advisory to her citizens, the Canadian authorities directed her nationals not to engage in nonessential visits to Nigeria. Not just that they face the risk of being infected by the novel coronavirus, but to…
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‘I bought a third Jet during COVID-19’- Hope Eghagha
Hope O’Rukevbe Eghagha It was with great happiness, infinite joy, and a Christian spirit of generous charity that I watched a video of a jet-set Nigerian born-again, very holy and rambunctious businessman, even controversial Pentecostal pastor recently who boasted in the Lord in a garishly vainglorious manner that he bought his third jet during the…
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Exit from recession much ado about nothing, By Dele Sobowale
“Nigeria’s GDP in the fourth quarter of 2020 grew by 0.11 per cent in real terms in the fourth quarter of 2020. this follows, if you will recall, two consecutive negative growth in the third quarter and second quarter of 2020, which saw the country going into recession. As a result of this fourth quarter…
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Bandit terrorism: Gumi’s unsettling revelations, By Ehichioya Ezomon
By Ehichioya Ezomon Nigeria has become a land of the absurd. Foreign non-state actors, parading as herdsmen-turned-bandits-kidnappers, have taken over the country, roaming freely from North to South. They leave in their wake an orgy of violence: Rape, maim and kill indiscriminately. Destroy farmlands and communities. Seize and rename ancestral and communal lands and forest…
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The high cost of federal procurement – Chido Nwakanma
Firms and individuals seeking to do business with Ministries Departments and Agencies of the Federal Government must scale a high barrier. The Government requires that they secure a “certificate of compliance” from no fewer than seven government agencies. Without those certificates, they cannot offer services. The mandatories are CAC certificate of business registration, registration with…
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The Fidel Castro children are here, By Owei Lakemfa
By Owei Lakemfa Clara Margarita Pulido Escandell is a 61-year old Cuban who breathes Africa. When I first met her and she discovered I had a trade union background, she enquired about the African Labour leader, Alhaji Hassan Sunmonu the founding President of the Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC. Sunmonu had spoken at the university in…
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For Telecoms, a place in the sun for alarmists, Okoh Aihe
Okoh Aihe There was suppressed excitement across the land last week. The country’s economy, dealt a massive blow into depression by COVID-19, suddenly witnessed a renaissance, a stirring out of that dazed stupor into some place under the sun, making some of us to learn how to smile again. The news was so sudden that…
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Insecurity: 4,556 Nigerians killed in kidnappings, terrorism, others in 2020
The Global Rights, an international human rights organisation, has disclosed that at least 4,556 persons died in “mass atrocities” in Nigeria in the year 2020. The group made the disclosure on Monday in its report released in Abuja- the aforesaid figure represents an increase of 1,368, a “glaring spike of almost 43 per cent” in…
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Governor Bala Mohammed, herdsmen and AK47 – Hope Eghagha
Last two odd weeks, Governor Bala Mohammed of Bauchi State was in the news nationwide, at the closing ceremony of the Press Week of the Correspondents’ Chapel of the NUJ in Bauchi State. For a man who hardly gets national media attention, he certainly had to say something outrageous and asinine to get a mention…