Month: January 2023

Buhari, Emefiele’s ‘buga’ handshake, By Festus Adedayo

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This week, there will be a stampede in Nigeria. Stampede for the new Nigerian currencies. The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN’s) policy of currency change has been variously lauded for its power to purge the system of slush funds warehoused for election purposes. However, its symptom as a vengeful political weapon manifests as preparations towards the January 31 expiration of old notes reach their crescendo. This reveals the rump of this very shoddy policy. The new Naira notes are nowhere in circulation. They are however scattered at weekend party venues…

National Youth Vanguard Honors Dr Mustapha Raji as Best Procurement Officer

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By ABUBAKAR YUSUF.     The National Youth Vanguard, NYF a pro- youth group and assessor of best practices in the public service has honored the Head of Procurement, National Productivity Center NPC, Dr Mustapha Nasir Raji as the best procurement officer in Nigeria’s public service for 2022.   The award known as “Public Service Personality award 2022” was bestowed on the recipient for his dedication to duty, excellence, outstanding performance and productivity which included transparency and accountability.   According to Abdulrahman Olawale, the coordinator of National Youth Vanguard NYF,…

Gov Sani Bello lauds retired DCG, Mairo Isa

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Niger State Governor ,Abubakar Sani Bello has described retired DCG Talatu Mairo Isa of the Nigeria Customs Service as an embodiment of, commitment, hard work and humility. The Governor disclosed this at a retirement Dinner in honour DCG Mairo Isa who attained the 35 years in service. The retirement dinner which was held in Abuja was witnessed by dignitaries from all walks of life. The Secretary to the Niger State Government (SSG), Ahmed Ibrahim Matane who represented Governor Sani Bello at the occasion disclosed that DCG Mairo Isa contributed diligently…

Prof ABC Nwosu, Southeast Needs An Apology, Not A Resignation By Law Mefor

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Prof ABC Nwosu just resigned his membership on the PDP Board of Trustees, protesting jettisoning of the zoning principle by the main opposition PDP. The value of his resignation needs to be calculated by interrogating his role in the Ortom zoning committee. History is a bitch and the burden of it can hardly be shaken off by those who fall on the wrong side.   As a reminder, Prof Nwosu represented Anambra state in the Governor Samuel Ortom Committee on the zoning of the Presidential ticket of the main opposition…

Your Excellency General Olusegun Obasanjo, Posterity Beckons

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(An Open Letter to Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, former head of state, former President, Federal Republic of Nigeria)   Dear General,   I sincerely hope this letter meets you in your usual high spirits.   A boy advising his father is rather a very difficult task. His effort can easily suffer ad hominem (the advice being misconstrued as directed against the person rather than the position they are maintaining). In traditional Nigerian society also, a son cannot chide his father openly. An Igbo adage states, If a boy lifts his father…

Chatham House: Is UK Centre Turning To Nigerian Politicians’ Ritual Spot?,By Afeez Hanafi

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Former Governor of Kano State, Rabi’u Kwankwaso, has joined the list of presidential candidates who have visited Chatham House in London in the race to occupy the highest office in Nigeria.   Kwankwaso’s presentation at the United Kingdom policy think-thank institute on Wednesday came barely 24 hours after his counterpart in the Labour Party (LP), Peter Obi, addressed an international audience at the facility.   Earlier on December 5, 2022, the presidential standard bearer of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, had an intriguing outing at the Royal…

Guys, here’s my first warning for the year By Funke Egbemode

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You know, generally, women are believed to be the ones with caustic tongues. We are supposed to be the ones who have ways of talking themselves into trouble. We nag. We dare and goad men into beating us up and now turn around to call them wife batterers and even murderers. True, most of them most of the time. But men can actually be worse. They do and say what sometimes put them in early graves. They goad their women too. And when you see a nagging husband in action,…

Festus Keyamo’s Shadow Boxing And Apc’s Tantrums By Law Mefor

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Before addressing our minds to the hullabaloo being raised by Festus Keyamo, the APC presidential campaign chief spokesman, it will help to keep in view two incidents. Both will help form the canvas to paint the bleak future for the proposed Tinubu/Shettima presidency. As often said, those who elect bad leaders, especially knowingly and against clear and better options, are not victims of the attendant misrules but accomplices.   There is a video trending at the moment. It is of the 90-year-old Paul Biya, the president of Cameroon who is…

Why can’t a side chick have a side guy?, By Funke Egbemode ,[email protected])

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I had not seen Fey (short for Feyikemi) in a while, a year and some weeks, I think. Until that bright afternoon last week. I was getting out of my car in the parking lot of my favourite spa in Victoria Island, Lagos. I had finally decided that I was ripe and ready for some head-to-toe professional pampering to take out the crinks and deep massage for the bunched-up muscles. I deserve a treat after all those tension-soaked months, even if I say so myself. As I stepped out of…

Hard times, hard guys By Funke Egbemode ([email protected])

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Watching the woman you love drift away from you because you are poor is a mean sight. It’s even a sadder sight when it’s not that she doesn’t love you. But a woman counts the cost before she starts building, which is why every smart woman knows that love is not enough to sustain any lasting relationship. She may want to wait but when the wait becomes endless, she is going to start listening to other things apart from your professions and confessions of love especially if her biological clock…