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Office Of The Citizen with Chude Jideonwo: Don’t be annoyed o, but please, who spoilt Nigeria?

  by Chude Jideonwo There is something curious that you might have noticed. Something as strange as it is weird. And it should worry you. We don’t appear to know…

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Haaaaaaaay, this GEJ billboard can lie o! (LOOK)

by Kolapo Olapoju Somewhere along Ahmadu Bello way, in Abuja, a Pro-Jonathan billboard carries a false caption, saying: "Under Goodluck, 86% of the economy is now non oil." In the…

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“Idris Ali rapes 10-year-old daughter” || “Ahmadu Bello kills man over N200” – Absurd crimes in Borno

by Damilola Jagun On Monday, 22 September, the police in Borno paraded two men for crimes such as rape and murder. Idris Ali, was paraded for allegedly raping his 10-year-old…

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Tunde Fagbenle: As Sanusi Lamido Sanusi fulfils his lifelong ambition

by Tunde Fagbenle If the maverick prince, now King, truly sees the throne as higher an office than any other — be it governor or president, regardless of the contradiction…

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Ogaga Ifowodo: The Northern victory in the derivation contest

by Ogaga Ifowodo The “North,” it must be remembered, was dragged into Nigeria screaming and kicking. Its disdain for Nigeria has been evident right from when Sir Ahmadu Bello would…

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“Shame on you”: Facebook users bash PDP for comparing founding members to Mandela (READ)

by Oke Efagene The ruling People's Democratic Party (PDP), has come under fire for its recent claims which rubbed off many respondents as inappropriate. The party attracted public outrage for…

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Akin Osuntokun: Nuhu Ribadu’s choice as candidate from the ‘North’

by Akin Osuntokun To make myself clear I wholly subscribe to Chief Awolowo’s prescription of decentralised federalism as the optimal political configuration for Nigeria. I’m not confident that our status-quo…

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Opinion: Regulating religious preaching in the North (1)

by Ibrahim Waziri ...I submitted, with emphasis on Northern Nigeria, that  the Nigerian nation must be interested in regulating religious preaching and practice for the restoration of peace and fair…

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Akin Osuntokun: Deportation and the Fani-Kayode debate

by Akin Osuntokun Fani-Kayode is gifted at working himself into a storm in a tea cup on virtually any issue that catches his fancy; and has a provocative penchant for…

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Femi Fani-Kayode: I am neither a tribalist nor a hater

by Femi Fani-Kayode And I am not referring to any of those exciteable individuals whose emotions have beclouded their thinking and who have called me a ‘’scallywag’’ and all manner…

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Dele Sobowale: If Jonathan is the leader; who are his followers?

by Dele Sobowale “Leadership is always somewhat mysterious. Leadership can be summed up in two words: intelligence and integrity” - John Brademas c1984 Just a little over two years ago, My…

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Who declared this war? – and more, in today’s news roundup with Cheta Nwanze

by Cheta Nwanze Sadly the ACN decided to play politics with the #SoE in the North. This hard-hitting editorial tells them precisely where to stuff that play. Truth is bitter, or so…

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