December
16,
2024
I have had two close encounters with the Emir of Kano, Muhammadu Sanusi ll. The first was in Saudi Araba, during the 2015 hajj, and the second was in Kaduna, in 2021. The Saudi Arabia meeting was...
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Entries Tagged - By Kazeem Akintunde
December
9,
2024
Aliu Adams Oshiomhole, needs no introduction in Nigeria’s politics. From his days as a labour leader, after being elected President of the Nigerian Labour Congress (NLC), to his days as a...
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December
2,
2024
Governor Ademola Adeleke of Osun State has invited Minister of Works, Dave Umahi and his counterpart in Aviation, Festus Keyamo, to Osun State on December 16, to lay the foundation of a...
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November
25,
2024
If you are a resident of Lagos and you have not been to Ikeja GRA of recent, please you need to pay a visit. The entire landscape has been turned into a giant construction site. The...
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November
18,
2024
A short video trended on social media last week of Nigerian Soldiers providing security for farmers as they harvested beans on their farms. Although less than 30 seconds long, the video speaks to the...
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November
11,
2024
There is an ongoing war for the soul of Nigeria’s oil sector. The war is not for the faint hearted. It is one war that has the potential to either make or mar Nigeria’s progress towards...
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November
4,
2024
Citizens of the United States of America, USA, will go to the polls on Tuesday, November 5th to elect the 47th president for their country. With nearly 186.5 million Americans eligible to...
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October
28,
2024
Nigerian Governors could be described as a special breed. Special in the sense that they listen and follow whatever comes to their heads without thinking it through. Just last June, when the federal...
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October
14,
2024
The World Health Organization, in 1992, set aside October 10th of every year as the World Mental Health Day. The date was chosen to create awareness about the salient issues around mental health....
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October
7,
2024
Good day sir! I have decided to write you this open letter after one of your aides, Bayo Onanuga, told Nigerians last week that you are proceeding on a two weeks annual leave to the United Kingdom....
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September
23,
2024
The World Health Assembly, with the adoption of resolution WHA 72.6, in 2019, set aside September 17 of every year to be observed as the World Patient Safety Day. On that date, the global...
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September
16,
2024
In the last few days, news and pictures from Maiduguri, the Borno State capital, have been heart-rendering due to the large-scale destruction recorded in the town as a result of flooding as...
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September
9,
2024
When oil was discovered in Oloibiri, a small fishing community in Ogbia Local Government Area of Bayelsa State, in 1956, those living in the community believed that their community and personal...
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September
2,
2024
“Hunger is the cry of a god and two gods do the humans worship – the head and the stomach …We know the body will survive without head Sustenance, but the Stomach, the god that rumbles and...
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August
19,
2024
Facebook, a popular social media networking site in Nigeria, now known as Meta, on July 1st, announced that it would start paying money to skit makers, content creators and social media...
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August
12,
2024
It was Abdullahi Sule, Governor of Nasarawa State, that called out his fellow governors few days ago on the need for them to start accounting for the humongous amounts of money they have...
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August
5,
2024
It was meant to be a peaceful nationwide protest with the slogan ‘EndBadGovernance’ in Nigeria, but in most of the states in Northern Nigeria, it was more like an opportunity for the poor to show...
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July
29,
2024
Nigeria is presently a nation on the edge. The reason is quite glaring for all to see. The masses, especially the youths, have vowed to organize protests across the country to call...
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July
8,
2024
On Saturday July 13th, Nobel Laureate, Professor Akinwande Oluwole Babatunde Soyinka will be 90 years on earth. God has indeed endowed him with good health and a sound mind. At his age, he is still...
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July
1,
2024
Yahaya Bello, former Governor of Kogi State, was a 10-year lad when former military Head of State, Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida (IBB), came to power through a palace coup in 1985. Babangida,...
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