Tag: IKEDDY ISIGUZO
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Defence Minister, EFCC Chairman deserve national awards of excellence – By Ikeddy Isiguzo
MINISTER of Defence Bello Matawalle and Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Olanipekun Olukoyede are appointees of the Bola Ahmed Tinubu administration whose exceptional performances qualify for national awards of excellence for notably extraordinary service. National Day, 1 October, should be a perfect day to let others know what they have done.
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Like you and I, super bandit Bello Turji, wants justice – By Ikeddy Isiguzo
BELLO Turji is not an an ordinary bandit. He sets his rules, enforces them, while wondering why he is grossly misunderstood. If you ask him, he would tell you he is in search of justice. Why is it difficult for people to agree that he desereves justice? If justice does
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How Kano council elections will compromise LG autonomy – By Ikeddy Isiguzo
NOBODY is talking about the damage that the Kano State Independent Electoral Commission, KANSIEC, is about to unleash on Nigeria’s local governments, and the large politics of Nigeria with the nomination fees of N10m for chairmanship candidates and N5m for councillorship positions.
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2024 Olympics: Nigeria’s sports as circumstantial ceremonies – By Ikeddy Isiguzo
MOSES Ugbisien, winner of a 4x400m bronze medal in athletics, 40 years ago at the Los Angeles Olympics, called thrice recently. Two of the calls were in the course of the Olympic Games in Paris. Expectedly they were about Nigeria participating in the Olympic Games as circumstantial ceremonies.
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Tenure of excuses: Will President Tinubu ever take responsibility? – By Ikeddy Isiguzo
PRESIDENT Bola Ahmed Tinubu has only a few who love him. Some of them were on the streets in the past days to express their frustration about what their Jagaban has become though many were still not sure what they expected the Tinubu presidency to be.
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Tam Fiofori and his Jamaican gals – By Ikeddy ISIGUZO
Tam Fiofori, who passed away on Tuesday, 25 June 2024, at 82, will miss this. Jamaica’s fiery sprints squad at the upcoming Olympics Games in Paris would have kept him on the phone, confirming schedules, reliving moments of athletic apogees, and making predictions of which Jamaicans would shake the world.
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Who will head Nigeria’s Bribe Collection Commission? – By Ikeddy Isiguzo
PUT the Steve Oronsaye Report on hold. We need to create a new Commission urgently. The tentative should be the Nigeria Bribe Collection Commission. There are multiple reasons for the urgency in setting up the Commission, but one should suffice for now – the President should have nothing to do with regulating bribery.
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South East insecurity threatens Nigeria’s two-legged tripod – By Ikeddy Isiguzo
IS South East still a part of Nigeria? The Constitution says so. Like almost everything in the Constitution that is observed in gross breach, insecurity in the South East is treated as the region’s headache.
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Let’s not focus on what didn’t happen in Adamawa – By Ikeddy Isiguzo
THE Nigerian delight for inconsequential issues is highlighted again by the indifference shown in the disruption in the Adamawa State governorship polls which can stand as the strongest attack so far on our democratic processes.
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Best time to be Onye Igbo is now – By Ikeddy Isiguzo
NEW Nigerians are emerging who greatly attempt definitions of Nigeria that excludes Onye Igbo. They speechify it, they act it, when all these fail, they problematise Onye Igbo as the defying part of Nigeria. There are no consequences for profiling.