Truth Is Treasure
1. Fellow Nigerians, 2. From the first signs that Coronavirus, or COVID-19 was turning into an epidemic and was officially declared a world-wide emergency, the Federal Government started planning preventive, containment and curative measures in the event the disease hits Nigeria. 3. The whole instruments of government are now mobilized to confront what has now
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Over the last few days I have received extensive briefings on the state of the nation as it relates to the Covid-19 pandemic, from the relevant Federal Government agencies as well as the Lagos State Government. Accordingly, I approved the following: The immediate release of a 10 billion Naira grant to Lagos
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By Oyetunji Oladele The growing disquiet and dissent in the leadership ranks of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) have blown open and can no longer be kept under the carpet. For a very long time, the National Chairman, Adams Oshiomhole has carried on as a Sole Administrator and Headmaster whose words and command must
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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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