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Shehu Garba needs some education By Dare Babarinsa

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It is interesting that the Presidency finally found its voice concerning the security situation in Ondo State. In recent months, Ondo State has been at the centre of grave insecurity in the South West. It was here that a first-class traditional ruler was kidnapped and killed. It was here that the daughter of Chief Reuben Fasoranti, the leader of Afenifere, was also killed in an attempt to kidnap her. It was here that Chief Olu Falae, once the Secretary to the Government of the Federation and who almost won the…

NiDCOM performing beyond expectation

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The Nigerian National Association in Scotland (NNA-S) expresses its dismay because of the call of the *Coalition of Oduduwa Descendants* to scrap” Nigerians in the Diaspora Commission (NiDCOM)during a so-called World Press Conference in Lagos, Nigeria recently. As one of the Nigerian associations in the Diaspora whose interests are being served with the creation of this commission, it is of utmost importance to lend our weight to NiDCOM, which has performed creditably well and beyond our imagination in helping to restore the dignity of Nigerians wherever they may be by…

NiDCOM is a veritable vehicle for Nigeria’s economic growth and national unity

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The call by a so-called Coalition of Oduduwa Descendants on the Federal government of Nigeria to either dissolve or restructure the *Nigerians in Diaspora Commission (NiDCOM)* wouldn’t have been anything to write home about. But it becomes imperative that, as one of Nigeria’s association in the Diaspora, we must respond to this misguided, perhaps borne out of a deliberate miseducation of this coalition, call for NiDCOM dissolution not only because the commission represents Nigerians the world over (our association and its members inclusive), but the unassailable fact that Hon. Abike…

BETWEEN OMOLUABISM AND OMO-ALECRAZY, THE EMERGENCE OF JESTERS SPEARHEADED BY LEKAN EKUNDAYO … A Bastard Spotted!

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It is often said in Yorùbá parlance that when a house or family enjoys relative peace and equanimity, it is because the bastard who dwells in such a family has not come of age. Otherwise, a family where such a person is bred is bound to witness, at intervals, clatter, woolly and needless cacophony. This scenario is not too different from the case of these deceitful and unconscionable souls who are better described as ‘Coalition Of Omo-Àlè Descendants’. The faceless group under the control of one Lekan Ekundayo is nothing…

Lawan: A messenger of harmony @62 By Ola Awoniyi

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High political office is surrounded on all sides by distractions. Experience best teaches this. It is not enough to take into the office a vision and a mission, you will find once there, enough to take you off track, to test your character and agenda. Many failed not because they were not prepared or well-meaning. They did because they no longer saw the goalpost once they found themselves on the playing field. Ahmad Ibrahim Lawan is apparently conscious of that reality. He believes a political leader must stand for something,…

Building a new future for Kwara By AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq

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Today, January 3, 2021, the portals for taking applications for a new crop of teachers have been programmed to go live. That begins a new process to fill our schools with qualified and competent tutors who will teach our children in basic classes and senior secondary schools across the length and breadth of Kwara State. It is an enormous task that we do not take for granted. It a task for which our administration will be judged — coming after we painfully nullified a process that had thrown up some…

Focus on Telecoms in 2020: A review of NCC’s Regulatory Activities

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For telecommunications sector, the year 2020 has been an eventful year with a lot of landmark regulatory initiatives by the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC). The policies, programmes and activities of the Commission have further positively impacted the upward trajectory of the digital ecosystem in the year under review. Also, the year 2020 came with a lot of challenges but the Nigerian telecommunications sector continued to record significant growth.     The impressive performance and growth, made possible through effective regulatory initiatives emplaced by the telecoms regulator, under the leadership the…

BISHOP KUKAH AND THE SEARCH FOR SUSTAINABLE NATIONAL PEACE

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The Network for Democracy and Development (NDD) is shocked by Bishop Matthew Hassan Kukah’s display of religious bigotry and tacit call for coup and war in his last Christmas Message titled “A nation in search of vindication”. According to Bishop Kukah, “Every honest Nigerian knows that there is no way any non-Northern Muslim President could have done a fraction of what President Buhari has done by his nepotism and gotten away with it. There would have been a military coup a long time ago or we would have been at…

ONE YEAR AND SIXTY DAYS LATER BY FUNKE EGBEMODE

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I knew it was not going to be a walk in the park but I must confess I didn’t know it was going to be this intense. Thirty years in the newsroom toughens you but this, running points on information management of the state is like jogging uphill constantly. Try and imagine that, jogging uphill everyday. You know what that does to you? Even if you don’t jog, you can picture how hard that can be. One of the things it does to you is you want the nights to…

Covid-19: How Responsible Citizenship Helps Japan

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“Instead, the government tried to apply the lessons of the Diamond Princess. After trained quarantine officers and nurses were infected aboard the ship, despite following protocols for viruses that spread through droplets, Mr Oshitani’s team concluded that the virus spread through the air. “As early as March, Japanese officials began warning citizens to avoid the san-mitsu or ‘3cs’: closed spaces, crowded places and close-contact settings. The phrase was blasted across traditional and social media. “Surveys conducted in the spring found that a big majority were avoiding 3c settings. The publishing…