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Gov Sanwo-Olu thanks Dangote, excited over Refinery, Fertiliser Progress, Impact

By Ele Ifah Sunday March 23, 2021 152 0

Lagos State governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, has commended the Dangote Group for situating the biggest investment in the country in Lagos State, and for the positive development which the Dangote Oil Refinery and Dangote Fertiliser Complex would bring to Lagos and the Nigerian economy. President of the Dangote Group, Aliko Dangote, on his part thanked the […]Continue Reading

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Further notes to the Nigerian Left

By Ele Ifah Sunday March 2, 2021 165 0

By Edwin Madunagu  The Nigerian Left has largely neglected, if not deliberately avoided a renewed ideological struggle that has become a strong factor in both the general turbulence and violence enveloping the whole country and the associated power struggle within the ruling class. The neglected or badly engaged ideological struggle may simply be described as […]Continue Reading

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Dangote Sugar increase production by 13.7% despite pandemic

By Ele Ifah Sunday March 2, 2021 171 0

Despite the disruptions to the economy, owning majorly to coronavirus pandemic, Dangote Sugar Refinery recorded an increase in production volume which rose by 13.7 percent to 743,858 tonnes in the financial year ended December 31, 2020, compared to 654,071 tonnes in 2019. The sugar group also posted an increase in sales volume which rose by   […]Continue Reading

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Dangote Grooms Nigerian Engineers to Manage Refinery Complex on Completion

By Ele Ifah Sunday March 1, 2021 176 0

The Management of Dangote Oil Refinery is preparing young Nigerian graduates to take over the management of its 650,000 barrels per day single train refinery when it becomes operational in 2022. Already, the company has trained several Nigerian engineers in some of the world’s biggest refineries in India and other parts of the world to […]Continue Reading

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5 Reasons Why Nigeria Scored Low on Corruption Perceptions Index 2020:

By Ele Ifah Sunday February 4, 2021 180

  …What should be done to improve it The 2020 Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI) released globally by Transparency International (TI) recently has shown that Nigeria yet again, records a decline in the CPI in 2020. In the report published exclusively in Nigeria by the Civil Society Legislative Advocacy Centre (CISLAC), the National Chapter of TI, […]Continue Reading

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The National Question and the Quest for Restructuring in Nigeria

By Ele Ifah Sunday February 3, 2021 221 0

By Chido Onumah  Introduction To paraphrase the historian, mathematician, journalist, and public intellectual, Edwin Madunagu, every political history has its significant dates, landmarks, or turning points. In Nigeria’s political history, for instance, landmarks would include October 1, 1960, (the day Nigeria gained independence from Britain), January 15, 1966, (when the Continue Reading

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Sad Return to Broken Chains

By Ele Ifah Sunday February 3, 2021 228 0

By Eric Teniola In June 2005 we were so ecstatic in celebrating the debt relief offered us, a relief of over $20billion, which was beyond the total revenue of Nigeria for one year. So happy were we that President Olusegun Obasanjo, GCFR, had to make a broadcast to the nation on June 30, 2005. He […]Continue Reading

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‘When Homecoming is Dangerous’

By Ele Ifah Sunday January 18, 2021 137 0

By Frank Tietie Ogacheko Atanu, an Idah born, world acclaimed and Saudi Arabia based drilling engineer was assassinated by unknown gunmen on Saturday, 9th of January, 2021 while holidaying in his country home in Idah, Kogi State of Nigeria. He was scheduled to travel back to Saudi on the morning of the next day before […]Continue Reading

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Remaking Nigeria, Sixty Years After

By Ele Ifah Sunday January 5, 2021 172 0

By Chido Onumah “…Nation-building is a futuristic venture; it is not something you do looking back. If a nation would be tempted, like Lot’s wife, to keep looking back, perhaps that nation will turn to a pillar of salt.” – Tope Fasua in Remaking Nigeria: Sixty Years, Sixty Voices   “A country is as good […]Continue Reading

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How Do I Write A Tribute For Sam Nda-Isaiah?

By Ele Ifah Sunday December 14, 2020 190 0

It was a short post from Isiaq Ajibola, former COO of Media Trust, on the WhatsApp platform of the Northern Media Forum, that drew attention to the passing of Sam Nda-Isaiah, just a few minutes past midnight, today, Saturday, 12th December 2020. To say that I was stunned, was to understate my emotions! I placed […]Continue Reading

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Gratuities: Zulum approves N12b to clear 4,862 unpaid retirees

By Ele Ifah Sunday December 8, 2020 170 0

… Presents cheques to retirees  … N3b earlier released in 2019  Borno Governor, Professor Babagana Umara Zulum, on Tuesday announced the release of N12 billion to clear gratuities owed 4,862 retirees who left the state and local government civil service from 2013 to 2017. Before today’s, Zulum had released N3 billion in June and September […]Continue Reading

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Lesson from North Korea: Invent rather than imitate

By Ele Ifah Sunday December 2, 2020 176 0

In the world, imitation became a trend. If there is one country that tends towards invention, not imitation, it is precisely the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, something that contrasts with this reality. A few years ago, Pyongyang hosted an exhibition of machinery and equipment, which displayed an 80 hp tractor, a 115 hp diesel […]Continue Reading