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Obasanjo's statement: In praise of the Third WayNaija247news | Naija247news
Understandably, most reactions tend to analyze the messenger – Chief Olusegun Obasanjo – at the expense of the content of his Tuesday January 23rd essay entitled “The Way Out: A Clarion Call for Coalition for Nigeria”. Having been on Nigeria’s driving seat for decades with all of us as his passengers, we are all understandably somewhat afflicted with OBJ messenger-message complex, OMMC! As illuminating as most comments are, the two eyes must be on the ball, not on OBJ’s legs as a player.
Between EFCC and Former OAU Acting VC: When corruption becomes the bull by ‘Lakunle JaiyesimiNaija247news | Naija247news
Following the arraignment of the most recent former Acting Vice-Chancellor of Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile Ife, Prof Anthony Elujoba, on Friday the 7th of July 2017, there was the staging of a protest on Monday by some members of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) at the institution in solidarity.
Biafra: The Southeast Igbo Did Not Kill Ahmadu Bello By SKC OgbonniaNaija247news | Naija247news
The recent quit notice issued by the Arewa Youths to the Igbo (or rather the “South-Easterners”) residing in Northern Nigeria has provoked peppering opinions. But there is a cogent reason to take it easy on the innocent youths. They are plainly the victims of gross distortion of national history that began during the civil war but is today causing more harm than any good intended.
Push on with the ‘great unwinding’, BIS tells central banksNaija247news | Naija247news
Major central banks should press ahead with interest rate increases, the Bank for International Settlements said on Sunday, while recognizing that some turbulence in financial markets will have to be negotiated along the way. The BIS, an umbrella body for leading central banks, said in one of its most upbeat annual reports for years that global growth could soon be back at long-term average levels after a sharp improvement in sentiment over the past year.
Does It Matter If We Are All In One Party?, By Uddin IfeanyiNaija247news | Naija247news
Emmanuel Macron’s (France’s freshly-minted president) political ascent has been nothing, if not phenomenal. The many firsts now make for pleasant reading; and invariably have provided space for debate around their different meanings and significance — for French politics, and for politicians everywhere.
Everton signs Nigeria’s Henry Onyekluru loans him to AnderlechtNaija247news | Naija247news
Lagos Nigeria, June 27 – Everton will sign Nigerian striker Henry Onyekluru from Belgian side KAS Eupen and then loan him to Anderlecht for next season, British media reported on Tuesday. After a standout season in Belgium’s top flight in which he finished top scorer with 22 goals in 38 games, the 20-year-old striker had been linked with a number of clubs including Arsenal. Having agreed personal terms, Onyekluru underwent a medical at Everton on Monday, several media outlets said.
Why I'm Afraid of Nigeria’s Break-up, By Gimba Kakanda Newsdiaryonline
A few days ago, a friend asked me to explain my aversion to the idea of secession as championed by the neo-Biafra advocates of Southeast Nigeria. He had assumed it was the fear, as simplified in a certain series of propaganda, of the North’s foreseen inability to sustain itself economically post-breakup.
Osinbajo Receives Visiting President Of Ghana, Sallah Homage Delegation
Acting President Yemi Osinbajo, on Sunday evening welcomed the visiting President of Ghana, Nana Akufo-Addo, to Akinola Aguda House, his official residence. During the meeting that followed the two leaders highlighted the critical role that Nigeria and Ghana play as the “centrepiece” of ECOWAS and the West African sub-region. President Akufo-Addo thanked Acting President Osinbajo for receiving his delegation on a special day, when Nigeria was commemorating Eid El-Fitr.
Female Children as Commodity of Trade in 'The Snuff Snub in Sonmazhi' Newsdiaryonline
Patriarchy and gender inequality are two subjects that continue to generate critical discourse amongst writers and literary scholars alike in literature, these concerns are not unconnected to the pivotal influence of these concepts on the larger society.
Initiate Moves To Determine Status of Buhari’s Health - Activist
An Abuja-based political scientist, peacebuilding practitioner, national security scholar, and public affairs analyst, Ayokunle Fagbemi, has called on the appropriate statutory entities of the Nigerian-state to initiate the processes for the determination of the health status of President Muhammadu Buhari, GCFR in compliance with Nigerian legal and policy frameworks. This comes in the light of the fact that Nigerians have been completely starved of information on PMB’s health.
Kano Specialist Hospital Gets N2. Billion Medical Equipment
Kano state government has purchased N2.8 billion high-tech equipment for its newly constructed Giginyu Specialist Hospital in the state capital. The equipment includes a 1. 5 Tesla Magnetic Resonance Imaging, MRI machine, purchased at the cost of about N500 million, which is the first of its kind to be installed in any public hospital in Nigeria. Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is a non-invasive imaging technology often used for disease detection, diagnosis, and treatment monitoring.
Borno: Police Confirm 16 Killed,13 Injured In Multiple Suicide Bomb Attacks
The Commissioner of Police,Borno State Command, Damian Chukwu, has confirmed that sixteen persons were killed while thirteen others were injured in multiple bomb explosions that hit Borno State on Sallahday. He confirmed the development in a statement on Monday. He said “Yesterday 25th June, 2017 at about 2221hrs, a male suicide bomber, gained entry into the premises of University of Maiduguri, and detonated PBIED on his body near the Rapid Response Services Office building.
Ganduje Grants Amnesty To 500 Prisoners
Kano state government has granted official pardon to 500 inmates of prisons in the state, in the spirit of the Eid el-fitr, the state governor, Dr. Abdullahi Umar Ganduje has announced. Dr. Ganduje made the disclosure at Kano Central Prison Kurmawa, in the state capital, while addressing a cross section of the convicts, shortly after the Eid prayer in the state capital. The governor, who was accompanied to the prison by the Minister of Interior, Lt. Gen.
AFRICMIL Welcomes Reinstatement Of Sacked Whistleblower At Foreign Ministry
The Africa Centre for Media and Information Literacy (AFRICMIL), a civil society organisation working on building support for the whistle-blower policy of the Federal Government of Nigeria, has expressed delight at the news of the reinstatement of a sacked whistleblower at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Mr. Ntia Thompson.
Niger Governor: Only United Nigeria Can Guarantee Development
Niger State Governor, Alhaji Abubakar Sani Bello has said only a united Nigeria as envisioned by our founding fathers can guarantee our development, stressing that “remaining as one country is the best for all of us”. The Governor stated this on Monday when the Emir of Minna, Alh. (Dr.) Umar Farouq Bahago and members of his Emirate Council paid him a sallah homage to the Government House in Minna, the state capital.
Let’s Break-up Nigeria! by Tony OgunlowoNaija247news | Naija247news
So everybody wants to go their own separate way? Some Igbos want to re-create the nation of Biafra while others want a Niger-Delta country; Northern youths are calling for the expulsion of all Igbos (- and Southerners) from the North and quietly the Yorubas are calling for the creation of an Oduduwa Republic. And then what? As Great Britain is finding out from its preliminary BREXIT talks with Europe it’s not easy to break up a union that has been around for a very long time.
Book on Brigadier Maimalari Killed in 1966 Coup for Public Presentation
A book titled “The First Regular Combatant, Brigadier Zakariya Maimalari” would be unveiled and presented to the general public on Tuesday 4th July 2017 at the International Conference Centre Abuja. Former Head of State General Yakubu Gowon billed to chair the book launch.
Signatures of dead people included to recall me, Dino Melaye saysNaija247news | Naija247news
The senator representing Kogi West Senatorial district in the National Assembly, Dino Melaye, says the signatures allegedly collected to influence his recall and forwarded to INEC were forged. Addressing journalists on Sunday in Lokoja, Mr. Melaye who said investigations had revealed that even the dead signed the recall across the seven area councils of the senatorial district, described the process as fraudulent.
70 per cent of Nigerian prison inmates awaiting trial – MinisterNaija247news | Naija247news
The Minister of Interior, Abdulrahman Dambazau, on Sunday said ?that more than 70 per cent of inmates in Nigerian prisons were awaiting trial. Mr. Dambazau disclosed this when he visited Kano central prison alongside the state governor to mark this year’s Eid-el Fitr celebration. The minister said the decision to visit the prison was to show to the inmates that the government was aware of their existence.
Italy winds up Veneto banks at cost of up to 17 billion eurosNaija247news | Naija247news
Italy began winding up two failed regional banks on Sunday in a deal that could cost the state up to 17 billion euros ($19 billion) and will leave the lenders’ good assets in the hands of the nation’s biggest retail bank, Intesa Sanpaolo. The government will pay 5.2 billion euros to Intesa, and give it guarantees of up 12 billion euros, so that it will take over the remains of Popolare di Vicenza and Veneto Banca, which collapsed after years of mismanagement and poor lending.
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