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Top 5 (Mis)information on Petroleum Industry Act

By Ele Ifah Sunday August 22, 2021 150 0

1. NNPC is being privatized No, NNPC is not privatized. NNPC is only becoming a limited liability company subject to CAMA, to be named NNPC Ltd (C will also now mean Company, not corporation). The share is still 100% government-owned. A major difference is, before PIA, NNPC had its own law: NNPC Act 1977, which […]Continue Reading

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Book on Nigeria at 60 Set for Launch August 19

By Ele Ifah Sunday August 17, 2021 173 0

The public presentation of a new book titled Remaking Nigeria: Sixty Years, Sixty Voices will hold on Thursday, August 19, 2021, at the Yar ‘Adua Centre, Abuja. Edited by Chido Onumah, the 437-page book is a collection of 60 essays by 60 young Nigerians to commemorate the 60th anniversary of Nigeria’s independence. “These essays by young and articulate […]Continue Reading

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Igala leader to FG: Extend poverty-alleviation schemes to Kogi East

By Ele Ifah Sunday August 16, 2021 137 0

The newly-elected National Leader of Uk’Omu Igala Organization, Mr David Abutu, has called on the Federal Government to extend poverty-alleviation programmes and COVID-19 palliatives to the people of Kogi East Senatorial District, who are mainly peasant farmers and hard-hit by the current economic downturn. Mr Abutu made this appeal in his brief interaction with the […]Continue Reading

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The Cross Babangida Still Carries at Eighty

By Ele Ifah Sunday August 15, 2021 221 0

BY ERIC TENIOLA General Ibrahim Badamosi Babangida, GCFR, will be eighty on Wednesday, August 17. He is the second-longest Military ruler in Nigeria, the first being General Yakubu Gowon(86), GCFR, who ruled Nigeria from 1 August 1966 to 29 July 1975. General Babangida ruled Nigeria from 27 August 1985-26 August 1993. His classmates at Government […]Continue Reading

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Wike, Secondus and the Future of PDP

By Ele Ifah Sunday August 12, 2021 145 0

By Uche Ugboajah For some time now, the stories emanating from the largest political party in Africa, the People’s Democratic Party (PDP), cannot be said to be palatable, at least to its members and supporters. First, it was rumored that some governors elected on the platform of the major opposition party were gearing up to […]Continue Reading

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Country without Orphans

By Ele Ifah Sunday August 12, 2021 165 0

Throughout the world orphans wandering about the streets, number 100 million; among the hundreds of thousands emigrate to other countries or are even sold in the slave markets of a modern version. Even the developed countries cannot solve the problem of orphans “showing the darkest aspect of the state and society” with social development and […]Continue Reading

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Saving Jaafar Jaafar from Gov Ganduje’s SLAP

By Ele Ifah Sunday August 10, 2021 161 0

By Godwin Onyeacholem   Despite persistent calls by authentic advocates of good governance for a conducive atmosphere for a thriving democracy and freedom in Nigeria, the reactionary wing of the ruling class and its agents are not giving any chance for that to happen. The more they are caught red-handed—with self-incriminating evidence—and exposed in the very […]Continue Reading

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2023: Gen Jerry Useni Inaugurates Excos for North Central Peoples’ Forum

By Ele Ifah Sunday August 4, 2021 165 0

In preparation for 2023 General Elections, a former Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Lt. Gen. Jeremiah Timbut Useni (rtd), on Wednesday, inaugurated members of the National Working Committee of the North Central Peoples’ Forum (NCPF). The event was held at the Forum’s Secretariat at Wuse Zone 4, in Abuja. NCPF was conceived to […]Continue Reading

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Boko Haram: Zulum inducts 1,000 hunters to secure farmers

By Ele Ifah Sunday July 29, 2021 168 0

Borno State Governor, Babagana Umara Zulum on Thursday chaired the induction of 1,000 hunters freshly engaged to join existing ones in the ongoing fight against Boko Haram. The hunters are to provide dedicated protection to farmers who cultivate crops in the outskirts of Jere, where over 70 farmers were killed in November 2020 as well […]Continue Reading

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Faith of the Korean people

By Ele Ifah Sunday July 27, 2021 208 0

If man has faith he is successful in his life and if the people have faith the country is promised victory, they say. The reality of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea(DPRK) confirms its relevance. During the past decades, the Korean people, despite facing severe trials, have never lost faith or wavered. After the liberation […]Continue Reading

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Whither the Interim Common Services Agency and Esiala

By Ele Ifah Sunday July 19, 2021 181 0

By Eric Teniola These days Esiala and the Interim Common Services Agency mean nothing to many people. Yet, years ago, these two agencies dominated the headlines in this country. In a televised address to the nation on July 30, 1975, the then Head of State, General Murtala Ramat Mohammed(8 November 1938-13 February 1976), GCFR,  said […]Continue Reading

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My “Unpopular” Propositions

By Ele Ifah Sunday July 15, 2021 163 0

By Edwin Madunagu    Several times in the last ten years, I have compelled myself to discontinue public exploration, and application to Nigeria, of the concepts of “power bloc” and “popular-democratic restructuring”. These are concepts in which another concept – “the national question” or “ethnic nationality question” – plays an important, though neither dominant nor […]Continue Reading