Category: Editor’s Pick
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NASS resumption: Lawmakers resume to meet burning national issues
…insecurity, Covid, PIB, herders-farmers clash, others may top lawmakers agenda …as both chambers reconvene today After a four-week Christmas break, the National Assembly (NASS) resumed legislative business for the first time in the new year on Tuesday. TheNewsGuru.com (TNG) in this report highlights some of the burning national issues that may mount the centre stage…
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2023: Okorocha’s search for ‘good politicians’, By Ehichioya Ezomon
By Ehichioya Ezomon Politicians are devising strategies towards clinching power in the 2023 election cycle. They’re forming campaign structures; holding nocturnal meetings; criss-crossing the country for consultations; and building alliances and bridges of understanding. A striking scenario to the scheming is a search for an alternative political platform, to upstage the All Progressives Congress and…
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Herdsmen and the Security Challenge – Dakuku Peterside
By Dakuku Peterside In the South West ,Sunday Adeniyi Adeyemo, popularly known as Sunday Igboho has recently been in the news. The self-styled Yoruba activist gained popularity (or notoriety) recently in the country after he led an attack against a Fulani community leader in Oyo whom he accused of harbouring Fulani herders engaging in criminal…
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Crypto Ban: Providus Bank deactivates all virtual account
Providus bank, mostly used by crypto traders for deposits and trading, have been deactivated because of the circular passed across by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) on crypto trading. The bank disclosed to its customers on Sunday to announce that the services were unavailable. No reason was given. “We wish to announce that our…
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Bobi Wine And The Old African Brew – Azu Ishiekwene
Azu Ishiekwene After the presidential election in Uganda, it dawned on me that there are two people in the country who don’t fear President Yoweri Museveni: one is his tailor, and the other is his political rival, Robert Kyagulanyi Ssentamu, famously called Bobi Wine. Museveni’s tailor makes his suits in complete disregard of tailoring…
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Okorodas: How to Manage DNA Trauma, By Michael West
By Michael West When the news broke out early in the week that a judge broke down in tears when he found out through DNA tests that his three children were actually fathered by another man or men, I wanted to ignore the story. This is because we have treated DNA issues just a…
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Joe Biden’s Faulty Start (I), By Sonnie Ekwowusi
By Sonnie Ekwowusi Newly-inaugurated U.S President Joe Biden has started badly in office. Within his first three days in office, Mr. Biden wasted no time in lifting the ban on the use of American tax payers’ money in funding abortion in African countries including Nigeria. I don’t know why Mr. Biden is obsessed with abortion.…
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Those haunting images from SIM-NIN integration centres, By Okoh Aihe
By Okoh Aihe Some little acts of benevolence are worth celebrating. At least from a government with the supercilious reasoning that if some relief in governance appear remotely in the horizon, the people need to lead an obsequious epiphany to the shrine of political patronage at the centre. That, by the way, is my little…
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Will the new service chiefs stop lopsided security interventions and restore peace? – Chido Nwakanma
President Muhammadu Buhari finally summoned the prudence during the past week to end the inglorious tenure of the military service chiefs under whom Nigeria regressed in security. The new heads of the Army, Navy and Airforce, and defence coordination come two years to the end of the PMB era with a full…
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Okowa’s Conversion Of Tertiary Institutions Into Universities: Sagacity Or Accidental Masterstroke?, By Magnus Onyibe
By Magnus Onyibe. One of the iconic leaders that is often cited all over the world as an exemplar, is Lee Kuan Yew, who was the prime minister of Singapore that owes much of his fame to the legacy of a phenomenal, rapid and systematic development of the small island nation in a manner that…