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Wednesday column with: Danusa Ocholi 08072213753[SMS only] ----------------------------------------------------------- Very few Nigerian leaders dead or alive, are celebrated like the late General Murtala Ramat Mohammed, the country’s fourth military ruler who administered the nation from July 29, 1975-Februry 13, 1976. Thursday, February 13 , will be exactly 44 years that the former Nigerian leader was assassinated in
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By Muhammadu Buhari President of Nigeria eulogizes Brethren leader executed by Boko Haram, and criticizes terrorist efforts to divide Christians and Muslims in Africa’s most populous state. Nigerians everywhere, those of belief and those of none, are mourning the death of pastor Lawan Andimi, taken from us by Boko Haram for
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By Muhammadu Buhari The United Kingdom’s exit of the European Union is now all but certain. Only the passage of time will reveal what their new relationship shall be. But with this new arrangement, I – like many other Commonwealth leaders – also seek a new settlement: not only of
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By Ola Awoniyi When Ahmad Ibrahim Lawan graduated from the University of Maiduguri (UNIMAID) in 1984 with a B.Sc in Geography, his apparent career was as an academic. The career was probably foisted on him as Ahmad was a beneficiary of the legacy of Professor Jubril Aminu who, as the Vice-Chancellor
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By Simon Shango Every bad thing has its good side. The take over of the Abuja-Kaduna road by armed robbers and kidnappers has now driven the V.I.P travellers to the Abuja-Kaduna railway line. All you need to do is to get on board the Abuja-Kaduna train and you can take a
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By Jonathan Jibrin How time flies. The 20th anniversary of the demise of Dr. Stephen Makoji Achema an astute politician and a rare patriot of Igala extraction come up exactly yesterday November 6.It was difficult to believe that it was twenty years already that
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By Menyanga Abu Politics under normal circumstance does not intrude on everyday lives of its practitioners but when the lives or interests of the politicians are bumped up against the political world, it can most often be intimidating. Every human being, so did Aristotle said, is a political animal. Going by this anyone who
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By Valentine Opaluwa Between the two major contenders for the November 16th Governorship election in Kogi State there is every need for objective analysis and assessment of the candidate of All Progressives Congress (APC), the incumbent Gov’, Alhaji Yahaya Adoza Bello. and that of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Engr. Musa Wada from the positions
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By Johnson Okah The Niger Development Commission(NDDC) has been very much in the news in the last few weeks, unfortunately for the wrong reasons. Regrettably, what the nation has witnessed in the last two weeks has been deliberate attempts by some highly placed government officials to denigrate the image of Commission for
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By Danusa Ocholi Ordinarily, the people of Kogi state would have spontaneously in their hundreds, possibly in their thousands trooped out to hold march pasts in Lokoja the state’s capital, and even in Abuja to thank President Muhammadu Buhari for his decision last week to seek Senate approval for “refund” of more than 10billion Naira to the state
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