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By SK Usman On June 30th, 2015 then as a Colonel and Acting Director Army Public Relations, in the Nigerian Army, I wrote a piece titled "Celebrating the Nigerian Army at 152" (https://newsdiaryonline.com/celebrating-nigerian-army-at-152-by-col-sani-kukasheka-usman/) in commemoration of the Nigerian Army Day Celebration (NADCEL) for that year. That was five years ago. In
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-By Terence Vembe. On Saturday, 20th day of June, 2020 His Lordship Bishop William Avenya ordained 7 (Seven) Priests for the Catholic Diocese of Gboko in what is usually a solemn but grand ceremony even in the wake of the deadly Novel Corona Virus that has bedeviled the Human race. Ordinarily ordination
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Today is June 25th. I have been celebrating since Sunday, June 21st. My friends, grandchildren, children, and other fathers and mothers, the world-over, held me up to an unforgettable Father’s Day celebration. But that is not all. My friends, we all deserve to celebrate. To be alive during these perilous times
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By Festus Adedayo If credentials and academic certificates/laurels approximated excellence, by now applauses to President Muhammadu Buhari for his choice of Ibrahim Agboola Gambari as successor to the late Abba Kyari as his chief of staff should be reaching their crescendo. Rather, the high-calibre diplomat and academic, who studied in respected
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NATIONAL BROADCAST BY PRESIDENT MUHAMMADU BUHARI ON DEMOCRACY DAY, JUNE 12TH 2020 Fellow Nigerians, 1. The 2020 celebration of Democracy Day marks 21 years of uninterrupted civil administration in our dear country. This day provides us an opportunity to reflect on our journey as a nation, our achievements and struggles. 2. It is a day to
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By Katrin Gänsler The coronavirus pandemic has relaunched a debate on the treatment of children in Koranic schools in West Africa. The pandemic has made them more vulnerable. But very little has been done so far to support them. Little boys in tattered clothes, holding a plastic bowl and begging for money
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By Muhammadu Buhari Across the world, as countries and economies slowly reopen, Africa lags behind. We were last to experience the coronavirus—and we expect to be the final continent to flatten the curve. Some may say it is too early, that the crisis still too deep and the recovery too distant to
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By Abdullahi Ismaila Ahmad If one has not occupied a position of leadership, one would not fully understand the truism of William Shakespeare’s wise words: “uneasy lies the head that wears the crown''. But those who wear the crown know where it hurts. So it is with the leadership of the
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By Ezekiel Terzurum Agir The World has come to a standstill with practically little or no movement, suggesting that it may have been locked down for repairs. Movement and operational activities in the areas of trading, transportation and manufacturing is being slowed or halted in some places. Many service industries have
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By Atiku Abubakar On Monday, April 27, 2020, British oil and gas giant, BP, became the latest in a growing number of energy firms to declare a massive quarterly loss. Their loss was in the region of $4.4 billion dollars. Bear in mind that this was a conglomerate that posted a $2.6 billion profit in
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