Transition Hours: President Jonathan writes back
By Reuben Abati “There was no bitterness in him after he left power. He did not look back. He did not look down. Instead he looked up and after looking up, he looked forward and…
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Curbing Fakes: The Role of Online News Media
Curbing Fakes: The Role of Online News Media By Prof. Abigail Ogwezzy-Ndisika (Being the Text of The Keynote Address delivered by Professor Abigail Ogwezzy-Ndisika, at the 2018 Delta Online Publishers Forum Convention On Wednesday, 7th…
Still, in defense of lasting values
Prof. Niyi Osundare By Niyi Osundare Full text of the lecture by Professor Niyi Osundare to mark the second inauguration of Dr. John Kayode Fayemi as Governor of Ekiti state. The lecture was delivered in…
SENATOR ADEMOLA NURUDEEN ADELEKE – Profile of a thorough-bred Ede man of Osun State, Nigeria patriot
Born in 1960 in the ancient town of Enugu to a devout Muslim father, late Senator Raji Ayoola Adeleke, an astute politician, second republic senator and major political pillar of the defunct Unity Party of…
Genocide: MBF demands sack of security chiefs, restructuring, prosecution, proscription of terrorist Miyetti Allah, end to pogrom
The Middle Belt Forum (MBF) decrying the on-going pogrom and genocide in the zone has called for the restructuring of the country even as it pointed out that devolution of powers to the various levels…
2018 budget: Full text of President Muhammadu Buhari’s speech
SPEECH BY HIS EXCELLENCY, MUHAMMADU BUHARI, PRESIDENT OF THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF NIGERIA, AT THE SIGNING INTO LAW, THE 2018 APPROPRIATION BILL, PRESIDENTIAL VILLA, ABUJA, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 20, 2018. 1. I would like to thank…
June 12: Buhari tenders national apology to family of MKO Abiola
President Muhammadu Buhari today, Tuesday, June 12, 2018, performed the investiture of national honours on heroes of democracy and tendered a national apology to the family of late Chief Moshood Kashimawo Olawale Abiola, for the…
Earlier rejection of the National Honour of OFR by Chief Gani Fawehinmi
Recollection by Ben Chuks Udoh CHIEF GANI FAWEHINMI, LL.D. SAN Monday, December 15, 2008 REJECTION OF NATIONAL AWARD Press Statement on the published National Honour of Officer of the Order of the Federal Republic (OFR)…
Who is minding the economy now?
By Dele Sobowale EVER since he was appointed the Executive Director and Chief Executive Officer of the Export Promotion Council, Mr. Awolowo has been singing the same song. When it comes to sounding like a…
How Buhari ran PTF, missing N500m – Newswatch
[Courtesy Newswatch, published in March 2000] Interim Management Committee on PTF raises questions over some of the transactions it considers irregular during the tenure of retired Major-General Muhammadu Buhari By Jossy Nkwocha How did N500…