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Buhari Commissions Gombe – Kumo – Billiri Kaltungo Highway

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President Muhammadu Buhari on Friday commissioned the Gombe – Kaltungo highway in Gombe state.   According to a statement by spokesperson of the Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, Uwa Suleiman, Buhari was represented by Professor Isa Ali Ibrahim (Pantami).   Buhari described the sixty-six kilometer road as a strategic project aimed at improving the nation’s road infrastructure, supporting the ease of doing business, creating jobs and entrenching a prosperous economic environment, in line with the administration’s commitment to eradicate poverty among its citizens.   “Today, we are commissioning and…

Buhari’s Footprints From Home To Diaspora By FEMI ADESINA

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Unless you are the discerning type, listening to public discourse today, you would think the only thing happening in the country is insecurity.   Yes, Nigeria has battled, and is still battling grave security issues. But it will win. As sure as night follows the day. In fact, insurgents and bandits are being put on the back foot already. Nigeria shall win.   However, the footprints of President Muhammadu Buhari are visible in many areas of our national life, and will remain indelible. At least for those who are fair,…

For Mike Awoyinfa, the ‘Iniquity Man’ at 70, by Femi Adesina

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Hahahahahaaaaaaa. I burst into an uproarious laughter as I write the headline above. What a way to celebrate your boss, mentor, an icon, and your journalistic dad at 70. Yes, Mike Awoyinfa, Editor of the celebrated Weekend Concord, and pioneer Managing Director/Editor-in-Chief of The Sun, which hit the newspaper market like a tornado in 2003 under the payoff: “Nigeria’s King of the Tabloids,” turns 70 on July 23, 2022.   The ever youthful Awoyinfa, with the luxuriant moustache back in those days, is now a senior citizen. To God be…

Those who attack me do so out of ignorance, mischief, malice – Femi Adesina

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Presidential spokesman, Femi Adesina, became a household name at the then Weekend Concord long before 2002 when he was invited to be part of the formidable team that formed The Sun Newspapers, of which he was pioneer editor. He rose to become the Managing Director/Editor-in-Chief of the company as well as President, Nigeria Guild of Editors (NGE). In 2015, he was appointed by President Muhammadu Buhari as his Special Adviser on Media and Publicity. In a chat with Chioma Okezie-Okeh of Saturday Sun, he shares his experience as the presidential…

FLYING ON THE WINGS OF GAS By Femi Adesina

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By the time we remove hatred, malice, indecent politics, and all the ills that plague our country and its leaderships across different governments, President Muhammadu Buhari would go down in history as the one that pioneered different kinds of revolution in our national life: agriculture, infrastructure (roads, rail, bridges, airports etc), and the latest; gas. In fact, Nigeria is set to fly on the wings of gas, courtesy President Buhari.   But let me give due credit for the headline of this piece, which is the brainchild of Mr Tony…

Buhari mourns Afenifere spokesman, Odumakin

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President Muhammadu Buhari has condoled with the family, friends and acquaintances of Yinka Odumakin, spokesman of Yoruba socio-political group, Afenifere. Odumakin was also spokesman to the then Gen Buhari in 2011, when he ran for President on the platform of Congress for Progressive Change (CPC), now defunct. The President recalled Odumakin as dutiful, and a person of conviction, expressing sorrow at his demise, when he had a lot more to contribute to society and the nation at large. President Buhari prayed God to grant repose to the soul of the…

I’ll greatly miss a staunch ally, loyalist,Buhari mourns Tony Momoh

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President Muhammadu Buhari has expressed grief at the passing of his longtime ally, friend, political loyalist and former Minister of Information and Culture, Prince Tony Momoh. Reacting to the passage, in a statement by his spokesman, Femi Adesina, in Abuja on Monday, Buhari said Momoh stood with him through thick and thin.   “His brand of loyalty is very rare in the politics of today. I will greatly miss him,” he added.   The president recalled that as chairman, Media and Publicity of the All Nigeria People’s Party (ANPP) Campaign…

REFLECTIONS FROM A WREATH LAYING CEREMONY BY FEMI ADESINA

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There’s no year I attend the Wreath Laying Ceremony marking the Armed Forces Remembrance Day Celebration that I don’t shed a tear or two. Secret tears. Yes, secret, as men don’t want to be seen giving way to emotions in public. But why not? Charles Dickens wrote: “Heaven knows we need never be ashamed of our tears, for they are rain upon the blinding dust of the earth, overlying our hard hearts.” So brothers, when you need to shed a tear or two, do it. When rainfall needs to come…

COVID-19 AND THE PROFESSORS By Femi Adesina

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I hate to see professors die. And in recent days, we have lost three of them to the strange ailment called COVID-19, currently ravaging the world. Within two weeks, we lost three professors in quick succession. Habu Galadima, Director-General, National Institute of Policy and Strategic Studies (NIPSS). Femi Odekunle, renowned criminologist and member of the Presidential Advisory Committee Against Corruption (PACAC). And Oyewusi Ibidapo-Obe, former Vice Chancellor, University of Lagos. Each time a professor dies, I say to myself: what a waste! All the learning, gone. All the intellect, perished.…

Dear Femi Adesina, If Nigeria Dies, Failed Leaders Killed Her! By Pelumi Olugbenga

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Injustice breeds nothing but pains in the hearts of its victims. To the orchestrators of injustices, the hues and cries of those at the receiving end are nothing but amplified noises. In reality, however, these hues and cries come from a place of real-time hurt, pains and heartbreak.   I just finished reading Femi Adeshina’s latest article on the #EndSARS protest, and the first thing that jumped out of me is the erroneous way he painted the Buhari administration as a victim of hate. Contrary to what Adeshina wants us…