Day: September 29, 2024

Tinubu appoints Joseph Tegbe as DG China-Nigeria Strategic Partnership

Emporium Reporters

President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has appointed Mr. Joseph Olasunkanmi Tegbe as the Director-General and global liaison for the Nigeria-China strategic partnership.   This follows the agreements reached by the two countries during the President Tinubu’s visit to the Asian country in early September.   Tegbe, 58, a 1988 first-class graduate in civil engineering from Obafemi Awolowo University, will report directly to the President, a statement on Sunday by Bayo Onanuga, Special Adviser to the President on Information and Strategy.   According to the statement, Tegbe is a fellow of the…

Kabiyesi Ladoja @80, By Festus Adedayo

Emporium Reporters

A blight that critics hold against newspaper column writers is that sometimes, our shots go off tangent, disenabling us from achieving precision. In the process, they claim, we mis-profile our subjects, literally calling the King’s Mother (Iya Oba) the Monkey Mother (Iya Obo). My reply to them is that, column writers are not infallible because they are columnists… Full stop! My reply is a timid parodying of Justice Chukwudifu Oputa’s locus classicus statement about the Supreme Court. I can’t go the whole hog and delve into its second stanza due…

A cocktail of Fintiri, NEPA meters, Borno flood and Malami’s son, by Hassan Gimba

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“This was a lynching. Make no mistake, this was state-sanctioned murder of an innocent Black man. Governor Parson had the responsibility to save a life, and he didn’t. When DNA evidence exonerates a man, capital punishment is not justice—it is murder. Trump, McConnell, and the conservative Supreme Court justices now have blood on their hands.” – NAACP President Derrick Johnson, reacting to the execution of Marcellus Williams.   Last week, an election for the Governor of Edo State took place. Winners and losers have since emerged. All political parties, especially…