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Opinion: Dear Jonathan, sack Ebola, not the doctors
by Garba Shehu Last week’s sack of 16,000 Resident Doctors by the Federal Government is careless, unscrupulous and clearly an indefensible action. It could turn out to be a social…
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Garba Shehu: Is the Nigerian Army capable?
by Garba Shehu That the army cannot defend engineers and technicians for five hours so that the repairs can be made? This is incredible. This country has Africa’s best army…
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Garba Shehu: “Jews (Read: Northerners) unwelcome” – The dangers of ethnic/religious profiling
by Garba Shehu Profiling of citizens in accordance with their religion and ethnicity is wrong and condemnable. As the Nazi leaders quickened their preparations for the European war of conquest that…
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Garba Shehu: As the North grabs its fate in its hands
by Garba Shehu The communiqué also strongly disagreed with the malicious linking of Islam to bandits who merrily kill, kidnap and trample on innocent persons and businesses, as well as…
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Garba Shehu: Emir Sanusi’s curious deal, and perils he must avoid
by Garba Shehu One, as is well known, Emir Muhammadu Sanusi has a very strong sense of himself. This makes him to face issues frontally without strategy or tact.…
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Garba Shehu: How politics made the abduction of 276 girls possible
by Garba Shehu It is clear from here that the slow reaction to the abductions was simply on account of politics and the desperate greed for power, which was shown…
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Garba Shehu: A government’s cluelessness, information blackout and our missing girls
by Garba Shehu From every indication, the search for these Nigerian schoolgirls will probably be the most difficult search in human history, not the Malaysian Flight MH370 as cited by…
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Opinion: Shocking truths to know about the Ebola virus
by Garba Shehu The Ebola virus, according to medical authorities, is spread through contact with body fluids, such as the sweat, blood, and saliva of an infected person or animal.…
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Opinion: APC, PDP and their endless verbal rockets
by Garba Shehu As the party with the largest number of states and seats in the federal parliament under its control, the PDP and its may communicators must come to…
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Opinion: The National Conference is simply a ‘dictatorial safari’
by Garba Shehu Two, this budding dictator, the President of Nigeria is going about it in a way suggesting that he is not a firm believer in representative democracy. Why…
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Opinion: Mr President, you should secure schools, not close them down
by Garba Shehu The schools closure only smacks of government’s off-handed handling of the situation in the North-East. It is difficult to understand why government has stuck to violence as…
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Opinion: Sanusi might be down but he is definitely not out
by Garba Shehu Governor Lamido Sanusi will not have a hard fall and by God’s mercy, his story will have a happy ending. It will have a happy ending because…
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Opinion: Katsina gave Namadi Sambo a low blow
by Garba Shehu Governor Shema revealed himself more fully when his supporters treated Vice President very rudely and contemptuously by interrupting his speech with shouts of “sai Shema”, “Nigeria sai Shema” It is…
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Garba Shehu: Labaran Maku and his frenzied attacks on Northern leaders
by Garba Shehu At another occasion, he thundered that “the fiction in the North that President Jonathan and Vice President Sambo are not developing the North, is the fiction whipped…
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Opinion: The buzz you should expect from Jonathan in 2014
by Garba Shehu The year 2014 is certainly going to be a thrill. Watch out for Dr Jonathan and the World Cup in Brazil. There are very many Nigerians who…
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Opinion: Why PDP is like NCNC – and why it will fail if it doesn’t listen
by Garba Shehu The people have sounded the bugle and come 2015, they want to build a new Nigeria with the PDP if they are willing to change their ways…
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Opinion: OBJ’s letter – What options are open to President Jonathan?
by Garba Shehu The President has no option but to give a reflective response. He needs to show a full contextual understanding; have a correct reading of the mood of…
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Garba Shehu: As Gov. Lamido and the PDP Chairman fight each other…
by Garba Shehu What this calls for on the part of Lamido, who apparently wants to replace Mr. Jonathan, is to know or identify your target/enemy and go after him.…
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A rejoinder: On Garba Shehu’s garble of misinformation about the EFCC, by Wilson Uwujaren
by Wilson Uwujaren Several things make this article a put off. First, it baffles me why so called columnists can’t see things from outside the narrow prism of politics and…
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Opinion: It’s sad the EFCC has lost its bearing
by Garba Shehu More than at any time, the EFCC is today right there in the crutches of the President. Current reports say the five PDP governors who decamped to…
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Opinion: The truth about Boko Haram according to Gov. Geidam
by Garba Shehu In the opinion of the Governor, members of the insurgent group were in possession of superior weapons that the army. He then advised that “the Federal Government…
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Opinion: PDP’s ‘sin’ tax is socialism, so what?
by Garba Shehu In line with this, government should expand the scope of the new tax, to cover those “sinful” items and tax them the more and more, so that…
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Opinion: A white elephant called The Child Rights Act
by Garba Shehu But without education and enlightenment, life-changing acts of parliament such as the Child Rights Act will remain what they are –white elephants. A lesson man is taught…
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“You are wrong, I’m not corrupt,” Atiku fires back at Obasanjo
by Oge Okonkwo Former vice president Atiku Abubakar, has denied any allegation of corruption brought against him by the former president, President Olusegun Obasanjo. In an interview published by Economic and Financial…
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‘Stay away from Niger Delta’: Ex-militants declare Atiku persona-non-grata over PDP crisis
Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar has been declared a persona-non-grata by leaders of ex-militants in the Niger Delta for threatening to stop the re-election of President Goodluck Jonathan in 2015…
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Opinion: Insecurity in Nigeria – A hungry man can fight the king
by Garba Shehu States that have fed their destitute and poor for a month have no moral right to suddenly withdraw this arrangement simply because the Holy month of Ramadan…
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Opinion: Nigeria’s glittering Almajiri plan
by Garba Shehu The Almajiri education policy of the Jonathan administration is important, not because it is a pioneering effort. In Kano, I know of the past efforts of the…
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