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Nigeria drops ball in testing the population for COVID-19

By Ele Ifah Sunday June 7, 2022 217 Post a comment

Theophilus Abbah and Daniel Adaji Testing for COVID-19 has dropped drastically, according to weekly reports by the [i]Nigerian Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) that show continued drops in fewer and fewer records of testing in most of the 36 states and the Federal Capital Territory (FCT). For instance, for the week that ended on April […]Continue Reading

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Sustainable lifestyle; panacea for looming food, energy crises

By Ele Ifah Sunday May 30, 2022 205 0

…as Rev Martins warns of environmental pollution consequences  A case has been made for a sustainable lifestyle to stem the looming food and energy crises that may arise from the current climate change occasioned by environmental pollution and general mismanagement. This is the submission at a one-day conference in Lagos on the Preservation of the […]Continue Reading

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Killing of 32: Zulum visits Kala-Balge, meets bereaved families

By Ele Ifah Sunday May 30, 2022 171 0

Discusses security measures Offers 100% increase for resident medical workers Gives deadline for reopening of hospital, school Borno State Governor, Professor Babagana Umara Zulum, on Sunday, traveled to Rann, headquarters of Kala-Balge Local Government Area, to commiserate with mourning communities and families of 32 metal scavengers killed by Boko Haram/ISWAP last week. Continue Reading

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Russia invasion of Ukraine threatens food security in Nigeria

By Ele Ifah Sunday May 27, 2022 206 0

By Theophilus Abbah & Daniel Adaji In December 2021, the price of family size Grand loaf, one of the popular bread in Abuja, Nigeria, was N600 ($1.43). As of April 2022, the price jumped to N850 ($2.02), an increase of about 41 per cent. The reason for this rise is not related to domestic economic […]Continue Reading

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2023: Why I will not accept aspirants’ offers to be VP

By Ele Ifah Sunday May 27, 2022 133 0

(Below was part of Governor Zulum’s remark when he accepted the nomination as the candidate of the APC in Borno for the 2023 governorship:) Only at the weekend, more than 30 youths were killed around Kala-Balge. This should remind us of the reality of our problems and the need to deliberately unite ourselves towards the […]Continue Reading

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My Encounter with Ahmed Idris, Buhari’s AGF

By Ele Ifah Sunday May 20, 2022 152 0

By Sam Amadi There is nothing better than due process and the rule of law for the stability of society. They are better than charism and even spartan lifestyle. Buhari’s administration is now officially the most corrupt in the history of modern Nigeria. This is the administration of a man who built all his reputation […]Continue Reading

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The Blood of Deborah Samuel Yakubu

By Ele Ifah Sunday May 17, 2022 190 0

Theophilus Abbah Her name, Deborah Samuel Yakubu Garba, exposes Nigeria’s inevitable culture mix that finds Christianity robustly rubbing shoulders with Islam deep and intertwined into the faint past that cannot be figured out by the best historical microscope. A combination of Deborah Samuel Yakubu presupposes that the young lady had Moslem in her ancestry, and […]Continue Reading

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The Fallacy of fighting for God

By Ele Ifah Sunday May 14, 2022 145 0

By Ben Osawe Nigeria is a very religious nation where citizens are so ‘committed’ to God that they are eager and quick to kill in his name and for him, as we saw on Thursday 12th May 2022 with the gruesome, heartless mob killing of Deborah Emmanuel a student of the Shehu Shagari College of […]Continue Reading

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‘What Buhari told outgoing ministers’

By Ele Ifah Sunday May 13, 2022 146 Post a comment

President Muhammadu Buhari on Friday in Abuja bade farewell to outgoing members of the Federal Executive Council (FEC), affirming that a significant number of them have been sufficiently equipped to aspire to higher elective offices, including the Office of the President. Speaking at a valedictory session for appointees leaving the cabinet to pursue political ambitions, Continue Reading

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History: Tinubu: Why Abiola Muslim-Muslim Ticket Scenario will fail in 2023

By Ele Ifah Sunday May 10, 2022 178 0

Theophilus Abbah In Nigeria’s presidential election, any political party that flies a ticket in which the presidential and vice-presidential candidates are of one religion squarely consolidates the marginalization of either of the two dominant faith – Christianity and Islam – in the political space. In the history of the country’s leadership, since 1979 (both Continue Reading

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I’ll Hit the Ground Running From Day One, Osinbajo Restates

By Ele Ifah Sunday May 6, 2022 167 0

Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, SAN, has said that having served for seven years as VP, among other stints in public service, he has acquired sufficient knowledge, information, and experience to be able to hit the ground running from day one if, by the grace of God, he is elected to be president of this country. […]Continue Reading

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Presidential Ticket: How Governors will determine APC candidate

By Ele Ifah Sunday May 6, 2022 157 0

Theophilus Abbah Before the March 26 national convention of the All Progressives Congress (APC), all executive positions had been shared among the six geopolitical zones. Delegates from all the 36 states of Nigeria and the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) converged on Abuja, creating political excitement and generating annoying vehicular traffic. The party’s executives were Continue Reading