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January 21, 2017

Thought Experiment: What if Goodluck Jonathan were still president?

You cannot even lie that this has not crossed your mind. *** March 28th, 2015: Imagine if you had rejected all of Muhammadu Buhari’s promise of Change and voted for transformation instead. Basically one and the same message except that the one got Buhari the honour of being transformed from “General” to “President” while the other... Read More
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January 21, 2017

We predict the next 4 years based on President Trump’s inaugural speech

Taking the Oath of Office as the least popular President in 40 years is no mean feat. But President Donald J. Trump is no stranger to breaking the mould. Against all odd (and we mean this literally), the man won an election against a well-adored veteran who happened to be female in 2016 America. The... Read More
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January 20, 2017

As the chances of Yahya Jammeh fleeing increases, we go over all the runaway African leaders

Edward Anthony Gomez, Gambian President Yahya Jammeh’s lawyer, in the heat of the battle over the inauguration of a new administration in the country, has fled to Senegal reportedly with a warning to his client to hand over power peacefully to President-elect, Adamu Barrow. According to the lawyer, “the general perception is that after midnight... Read More
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January 19, 2017

[The Presidential Blog] This can’t be the right time to ask for an annual vacation, Mr. president

President Muhammadu Buhari, pursuant to Section 145 of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria (as amended) has just written the Senate to request 10 days off. In the letter, the President asked for the 10 days off for his annual vacation.  Last year, the President took 6 days off just eight months after he was... Read More
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January 18, 2017

Could this be the reason why Boko Haram continues to hold on to the Chibok girls?

On Monday, something extremely dreadful happened. A 7-year-old was strapped with explosive device(s) and sent to a worship centre within the University of Maiduguri, in the recovering city of Borno. The attack that happened as a result of this left four people dead in its wake and at least 15 others have been confirmed injured.... Read More
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January 17, 2017

[The Presidential Blog] Aisha Buhari is partnering with the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation

Wife of the President, Mrs Aisha Buhari has never given any reason for us to see her Future Assured Project as just another “pet project”. She apparently means business and the latest in the non-profit’s strides is the partnership with the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation aisha Buharito address challenges facing women and vulnerable children in Nigeria. The... Read More
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Lauretta Onochie
January 17, 2017

[The Presidential Blog] This media assistant to Buhari must have been taking a lot of Twitter lessons from Trump

Just last week, the President’s personal assistant on social media came to our attention. Of course, it’s not that we hadn’t known her before then. No, we knew when she was appointed last year as yet another media aide to President Muhammadu Buhari. We refrained from joining the bandwagon of “wailers” because, truly, this President can... Read More
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January 17, 2017

Sambisa is 18 times the size of Lagos | A Roundup of everything we learnt from the BBOG’s day tour of Sambisa

On the 11th of January, 2017, the Federal Government did something it had never done before. A letter was written to the conveners of the Bring Back Our Girls group inviting them to join the Chief of Air Staff and the Chief of Army Staff, Tukur Buratai, Ministers of Defence and Information, Mansur Dan Ali... Read More
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January 16, 2017

We have your receipts: But the Nigerian Army told us they had sent Boko Haram out of Sambisa

No doubt, it was suspicious from the get go to think that the Nigerian Army and its allied forces that make up Operation Lafiya Dole had truly completed a sweep of Operation Lafiya Dole. It truly was . Especially considering the fact that the information was being dished to us by the same people who claimed to... Read More
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January 16, 2017

“We may have all come on different ships, but we’re in the same boat now.” | 10 memorable quotes from Martin Luther King Jr.

Today is the day set aside to honour the American civil rights activist, Martin Luther who led the Civil Rights Movement while maintaining his policy of non-violent disobedience to confront white supremacy. King was assassinated while planning an occupation of Washington, D.C. on April 4, 1968 in Memphis, Tennessee. In 1971, posthumously, the Martin Luther King Jr.... Read More
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January 16, 2017

[The Presidential Blog] The President’s response to the University of Maiduguri bombing

Early this morning, there was a terrorist attack on a mosque in the University of Maiduguri while members of the community there were observing Subhi prayers. While the number of casualties has not yet been ascertained, a Professor of Veterinary medicine is reported to have lost his life. I received the sad news of the terrorist attack... Read More
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January 15, 2017

We have your receipts: Governor Fayose what do you have to say now?

Governor Ayodele Fayose of Ekiti State, the Critic-in-Chief of all constituted authority except Governor Wike  now has a dead civil servant to account for. Earlier today, we learnt that Tope Afolayan, a civil servant in Ekiti State committed suicide. The Police Public Relations Officer in the state, Alberto Adeyemi, has also confirmed the incident. Afolayan worked in... Read More
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January 15, 2017

[The Presidential Blog] This is everything President Buhari actually said to the Nigerian troops everywhere today

President Muhammadu Buhari celebrated this year’s Armed Forces Remembrance Day with much more enthusiasm than we have now come to expect from him. We’ll chuck it up to his background in the service. He celebrated at the National Arcade in Abuja by laying the wreath laying and then he spoke via teleconferencing to serving troops... Read More
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January 15, 2017

Still on the Matter: We slept on it but woke up to an Ajimobi that is still wrong, wrong, wrong

The last time students of Ladoke Akintola University of Technology took to the streets to protest their being shut out of campus and their studies, the strike action had just hit 6 months. Oladimeji Opayomi (also known as Demex) wrote in to complain about how the Superintendent of Police that had been stationed to guard them during... Read More
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January 15, 2017

“You are all mad”, “8 months of what?” | See our top 10 memorable quotes from the past week

This past week looks as though it was designed to put many Nigerian sweethearts in bad light. Peter Obi, former Governor of Anambra is bitterly complaining about how his former party comrades from APGA are trying to pit him against the current administration and Mr. Eazi, arguably the most played artiste on Nigerian airways right... Read More
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January 14, 2017

So who are the musicians that will perform at Donald Trump’s inauguration?

The last time we talked about American President-elect, Donald Trump’s inauguration, we had only confirmed the 16-year-old, Jackie Evancho who will be singing the National Anthem at the 20th of January ceremonies. Musical performances at the American inauguration ceremonies have always been a big deal with A-listers falling over themselves to perform. History attests to... Read More
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