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Airport Runway: Wike announces N825.8b compensation for Abuja residents

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The Minister of Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Nyesom Wike has announced N825.819 billion as compensation to some residents in the nation’s capital for the construction of the 4.2km second runway at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport. Wike made this announcement on Tuesday, August 29, 2023, after a negotiation meeting with the minister of aviation, Festus Keyamo, officials of both ministries and representatives of their agencies, as well as stakeholders from Jiwa, the affected community in Abuja. According to Wike, the fund incentivises the residents to vacate the community and seek…

UNGA,SDGs and Nigeria’s Expectations, By ABUBAKAR YUSUF

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Few days to September billed for the 78th United Nations General Assembly UNGA annual global convention , which Nigerian was known to playing a leading roles in many areas particularly the UN Sustainable Development Goals SDGs, it will be germane to have a substantive SSA to the President on the program in view of the leading roles it had played towards driving the decade of action , the 2020-2030 Agenda. Obviously, under the leadership of the previous handler, powered by Princess Adejoke Orelope-Adefulire who pioneered the SDGs programs, for consecutive…

FARMERS/HERDERS CLASHES -House of Reps seeks corporation with relevant stakeholders

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The House of Representatives has resolved to end the incessant farmers/herders’ clashes in the country; using a multi-faced approach to achieve a lasting peace. Deputy Speaker of the House, Benjamin Kalu stated this at a meeting between the Chairmen and members of the Ad-Hoc committee to interface with relevant stakeholders in Abuja. Nigeria is home to many violent conflicts, one of which is the farmers-herders conflict that has posed severe security challenges in the country. The meeting between the House and the Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, Federal…

The Real Subsidies Are Not For The Poor, But The Rich – Femi Falana, SAN

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Globally, subsidies, whether for food, transportation, energy or housing, are part of good governance. So, the issue is not subsidies but who benefit from them. In Nigeria, subsidies are primarily of the rich, by the rich and for the rich. I will highlight a few, how they are being manipulated and how huge sums of money can be recovered not just to subsidize fuel but also provide funds for development. 1. Diversion of N40 billion from Federation Account A company, Continental Transfert Technique had been hired by the Ministry of…

Mass Surrenders hit Boko Haram Terrorists,as MNJTF intensifies onslaught

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In the wake of escalated kinetic and non-kinetic operations by the Multinational Joint Task Force (MNJTF), coupled with a dwindling logistic supply in Boko Haram hideouts, mass surrenders rattled Boko Haram insurgents. Over a span of two days, from 14th to 15th August,2023, four key Boko Haram commanders, 13 main fighters, and a total of 45 family members, laid down their arms and surrendered to troops of Sector 3 MNJTF in Cross Kauwa and Baga of Kukawa Local Government, Nigeria. Surrendered items include seven AK-47 Rifles, one FN Rifle (SLR),…

France, your Queendom is falling! By Festus Adedayo

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Zimbabwe-born medical doctor and activist, Arikana Chihombori-Quao’s viral video which hit airwaves last week evokes the music of iconoclastic Jamaican reggae musician, Peter Tosh. The video explains the rebellion going on in the Sahel against France. In Tosh’s system-bashing, anthem-of-resistance song, a call to action against the evils of colonialism and oppression, the coup in Niger Republic and France’s decades of paternal oppression against French-speaking Africa gets graphic detailing. His Mystic album, especially the track Babylon, your Queendom is falling, is pregnant with powerful lyricism that is unpretentious against colonial…

Tinubu nominates Blueprint Publisher, Mohammed Idris Malagi, as Minister

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Hours after PRNIGERIA released a list of top northern PR icons including the publisher of Blueprint Newspapers, Mohammed Idris Malagi, President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has named him in the first batch of ministerial nominees released on Thursday.   The names were submitted to the Senate by the President’s Chief of Staff, Femi Gbajabiamila.   Malagi has achieved extraordinary success as a publisher, skilled PR expert and brand builder.   He was born in Malagi, a community in Gbako Local Government Area of Niger State on May 2, 1966. He is…

Open Letter To Fellow Nigerians, By Kazeem Akintunde

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As for man, whenever his Lord tests him, gives him honour and gifts, He says ‘My Lord has honoured me.’ But whenever He tests him, restricting his livelihood for him, he says ‘My Lord has humiliated me’. Not at all. But you do not honour the orphans and you do not urge the feeding of the poor. And you devour inheritance with all greed and you love wealth with immense love’- Quran 89 Verse 15-20.       My dear fellow Nigerians, I have decided to write you this open…

Breakfast with Yebo Gogo, Kole Omotoso By Festus Adedayo

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In 2018 when news sieved in that that constellation of emeriti, Prof Bankole Ajibabi Omotoso, had crept into Akure, Ondo State, our association, Ooye Development Initiative, (ODI) bated him like mousetrap does mice. Was Akure big enough to contain that hippopotamus-statured literary giant? I wondered. I, perhaps, was the most excited of the lot. I had read Omotoso’s works with doting wonder and imagined if he wasn’t a gnome or some genie. So, this day in September, as we drove towards the then pot-holes ridden Oda road to honour an…

Group flays Ibori’s critics ….. says his traducers can’t survive a day’s scrutiny in British Court

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The Niger Delta Patriots, NDP, yesterday took a strong stand against persons they described as “wicked and frightened men,” who are scared shirtless by the political ascendancy of former governor of Delta State, Chief James Onanefe Ibori. The NDP, a group of Niger Delta intellectuals, said Ibori’s traducers are the very same people who wined and dined with him , but turned around to stick a knife in his back. In a statement, the group’s President, Dr. Erimeruke Okome, stated that Ibori was more of a victim of high-power- political-play…