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Justice by trophy parade - The Nation Newspaper
By Kayode Robert Idowu Criminal suspects whose fingers, in practical terms, got caught in the cookie jar by security agents had the rights abuses they suffer thereafter coming to...
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Time for medium size manufacturing industries bail out – Daily Trust
Iam a stakeholder and player in the pharmaceutical manufacturing sub-sector of the economy and my involvement was primarily encouraged by the policies and programs taken to promote Industries and...
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Okada ban or transport revolution? – Daily Trust
Nigeria needs both urgently! Not just Lagos but the entire country needs an immediate mass multimodal transportation as well as outright ban of Okada and its twin instrument of...
Read moreApocalyptus – Daily Trust
Fiddling with Empty Universe, the latest Sci-Fi game created by my son, Olusola, (https://youtu.be/HelWqwpj6uw), my thoughts are of matters apocalyptic. Away from virtual space, whichever direction I turn to,...
Read moreBefore recruiting community police – Daily Trust
The Inspector General of Police (IGP), Mohammed Adamu, recently directed the police hierarchy in the country to commence the recruitment of special constables nationwide preparatory to the implementation of...
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Fakuade and the silent transformation of MRI – Daily Trust
There are indeed some Nigerians that can be labelled as quiet achievers. These sets of individuals are media-shy, but their level of competence is astonishing, so much so that...
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Changing the service chiefs – Daily Trust
The resolution adopted by the House of Representatives on Wednesday last week calling on the military service chiefs to resign or be sacked by President Muhammadu Buhari was the...
Read moreRestructuring or secession, what does the South-West really need? (I) – Daily Trust
The controversies accompanying the Amotekun regional security arrangements inaugurated recently by the six states of the South-West provides an opportunity to critically examine the narrative of the region, not...
Read morePresident Buhari and N556bn spent on pipeline repairs between 2015-2019 – Daily Trust
Between January 2015 and June 2019, the federal government under President Buhari spent over N556 billion on oil pipeline repairs and maintenance across the country. This figure was contained...
Read moreOnce more, dire security concerns - The Nation Newspaper
SENATE President, Dr. Ahmed Lawan, started it all when he declared, on the eve of the Senates resumption from the Yuletide break, that the present security architecture cannot tackle...
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A life well lived, and the Quality of the Nigerian life - The Nation Newspaper
Oyinkan Medubi Not only have the young ones in our schools collectively decided not to know anything, even national intellectualism and intelligence have greatly declined. Adults do not...
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Almajiri crisis in Northern Nigeria: A cry for our children – Daily Trust
Where is our shame? Where is our collective responsibility? Allah Ya Isa! In the last month, social media has been awash with multiple scenes, most from Northern Nigeria, of...
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How Nigeria lost trillions from production sharing contracts – Daily Trust
Nigeria agreed to a deep-water exploration venture with several IOCs to avoid the huge capital required to develop its oil reserves, increase oil production and to leverage on emerging...
Read moreFinding solution to nations security problem – Daily Trust
No doubt the security situation in the country is going from bad to worse. From North to South and from East to West, Nigeria has been enmeshed in a...
Read moreNiMets 2020 rainfall prediction – Daily Trust
The Nigerian Meteorological Agency (NiMet) recently released the 2020 Seasonal Rainfall Prediction (SRP) report to guide various sectors of the country, especially agriculture, which is top on the agenda...
Read moreOn the politics of Sokoto elections – Daily Trust
The sweet wine of power can be dangerously intoxicating. It makes the head cloudy, warped and giddy. One of the oft illusionary result is that pride, which comes before...
Read moreSugar and your well being: Facts and myths – Daily Trust
The media in several countries have been awash in recent years with feature articles, opinions and so-called scientific information on the impact of the consumption of sugar on human...
Read moreToo many African Summits – Daily Trust
Lately, it has been harvest of summits tailored for Africa. Last week, President Muhammadu Buhari returned from the United Kingdom (UK), having attended the inaugural UK-Africa Investment Summit held...
Read moreAddressing HIV/AIDS will boost economic recovery efforts – Daily Trust
Following the economic recession of 2016, the Nigerian government developed an Economic Recovery and Growth Plan for 2017-2020 with three broad strategic objectives: restoring growth; investing in human capital;...
Read moreAcceptance Fee is extortion by another name - The Nation Newspaper
BY SAMUEL ADEBAYO ABODUNRIN In recent times, the hope of the average Nigerian seeking admission into tertiary institutions has been dashed. Not because they failed the entrance examination but...
Read moreTravails of the girl-child - The Nation Newspaper
BY SAMUEL ADEBAYO ABODUNRIN It is a fact that femalesrights are infringed upon daily. Discrimination, violence and harassment of females have contributed a lot to public discourse globally....
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Boko Haram: the face of Buharis failure – Daily Trust
It will be reasonable to expect that worry lines on the faces of national leaders over the resurgence of Boko Haram would be deeper at this stage. There may...
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Stemming Boko Harams resurgence – Daily Trust
It has been a week of tragedies both at home in Nigeria, and abroad. The whole nation trembled when not only was there a resurgence of deadly Boko Haram...
Read moreSitting on a keg of gunpowder – Daily Trust
Nigerians must be pretty annoying to their rulers. Like obnoxious spectators pretending to know better than those on the field of play, people outside the corridors of power tend...
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Regulate acceptance, other varsity fees – Daily Trust
The 2019/2020 academic session just began in most universities in Nigeria. Criticisms have continued to trail the hike in acceptance fee alongside other levies charged by public universities during...
Read moreMuch ado about Nigerias corruption ranking – Daily Trust
Last week, Transparency International (TI), through its Nigerian affiliate, Civil Society Legislative Advocacy Centre (CISLAC), published its 2019 Corruption Perception Index (CPI). This ranks Nigeria 146 out of 180...
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Understanding Niger Delta region problem – Daily Trust
There is a new campaign in town, and it is hinged on bringing down a high profile target at all costs. The strategy is that if the target is...
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Declare war on Lassa fever – Daily Trust
The Lassa fever is transmitted by rodents, which is bad news around here because rats are found in all our bushes and in most of our homes. It is...
Read moreNational Safety: Unanswered questions and doing the necessary – Daily Trust
The uproar by some Northern Elders over the creation of the Amotekun security outfit by the Governors of the South-West Region was totally inappropriate. Within a week of its...
Read moreBrain drain as modern slavery - The Nation Newspaper
By Kene Obiezu SIR: The idiom even rats leave a sinking ship captures the core of the crises of confidence and choice confronting most Nigerians at the moment...
Read moreVisa abuse and Trumps phobia - The Nation Newspaper
Kayode Robert Idowu If President Trump is a phobic warrior, Nigerians who abuse their visa terms provide him ready ammunition NEWS emerged last week that the United States...
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Customs and Nigerias future beyond oil – Daily Trust
Globally, revenue from Customs Duty constitutes large chunk of funds for financing governance. Although accruals from natural resources like oil is important as well, countries of Europe and America...
Read moreCivil Warfare: Disclosures and Closure – Daily Trust
The quantity and quality of spoken and written commentaries on Nigerias civil war (note: not Biafra war!) once again point to the groundswell of an emerging national consensus. It...
Read moreNigeria first as foreign policy – Daily Trust
The Minister of Foreign Affairs, Geoffrey Onyeama in his meeting with the diplomatic corps last week identified nine priority areas that would guide Nigerias foreign policy in the next...
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Want to live perpetually? – Daily Trust
Some people cannot die. Even when they expire and are interred, their names take on another, fonder, life. They are celebrated from generation to generation. The ultimate aspiration of...
Read moreSave Maiduguri-Damaturu highway – Daily Trust
Repeated attacks by Boko Haram insurgents on the vital Maiduguri to Damaturu highway, which also leads to Kano, Bauchi and the rest of the country, is an extremely worrisome...
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Major players championing e-commerce industry - The Nation Newspaper
By WahabOgunjobi Since the advent of electronic commerce (otherwise referred to as e-commerce) in Nigeria in 2012, one can safely say that there has been a steady growth...
Read moreMusings on the state of our land - The Nation Newspaper
Komolafe on Saturday IT bears repeating that Nigerias continued existence will be at risk if the rich and the wealthy are not receptive to the clear warning of...
Read moreState police: Between necessity and worries – Daily Trust
The apparent incapability of the Nigerian police to stop the persistent deterioration of the security situation in Nigeria, on the one hand, and the justifiable worries over the implications...
Read moreDingyadi and pragmatic governance approach – Daily Trust
Few Nigerians have led their entire life without deviating from their designated goal, especially when that goal involves unrelenting struggle to bring about change to a Nigerian society rife...
Read moreForensic accounting and checkmating global fraud – Daily Trust
A study conducted by Crowe Clarke Whitehill and the University of Portsmouths Centre for Counter Fraud Studies (CCFS) in 2018 put global fraud and organised crime at a whopping...
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INEC and Tomorrows Re-Run Polls – Daily Trust
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) is scheduled to conduct 28 court-ordered elections in 12 states on Saturday, January 25, 2020. Mr Festus Okoye, INECs Commissioner for Information and...
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As unemployment looms
By Dauda Taoheed Right from the nursery is a precautionary branch and root pruning of Iroko tree with the foresight of averting a humongous associative unseparated problem that evolves...
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One Year After The Lassa Fever Convention: Are We Rising To The Problem? – Daily Trust
About a year ago, nearly 700 people from 15 countries across the world gathered in Abuja, Nigeria for the first Lassa Fever International Conference in Nigeria. The Nigeria Centre...
Read moreThe Angel of History and the Ghost of Biafra – Daily Trust
Wednesday 15 January marked 50 years since the end of Nigerias bitter civil war. That was the day that Colonel Philip Effiong submitted the articles of surrender to Yakubu...
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S/Court victory and collapse of Kwankwassiyya – Daily Trust
It was a jubilant jiffy for millions of Kano residents on Monday morning when the news of the avowal of the election of Governor Abdullahi Umar Ganduje by the...
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No Nigerian law supports Amotekun – Daily Trust
The Federal Republic of Nigeria as a constitutional democracy guarantees freedom of expression consistent with the prevailing provisions of our laws. For this reason, citizens are free to hold...
Read moreMaking Nigerias democracy relevant – Daily Trust
At the 17th edition of the Daily Trust Dialogue on 20 Years of Democracy: Strengths, Weaknesses, and Opportunities, held on Thursday, January 16, 2020, the two decades Nigerias democratic...
Read moreSamuel Ortom: The Defender of Benue Valley – Daily Trust
In the build up to the 2015 governorship election in Benue State, incumbent governor Samuel Ortom was arguably the favorite of majority of the people. He was in the...
Read moreDemocracy and the decline of patriotism – Daily Trust
Democracy and the decline of patriotism is a worrying thought when you rest your mind on the global picture of Nigeria today. Or am I the only one to...
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