Tinubu, the President-elect, pursued his ambition with two strategic assumptions both of which proved to be wrong.
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After the end of the Second World War, Winston Churchill, the great Prime Minister of Britain, was very reluctant to receive Mohandas Gandhi at 10 Downing Street, dismissing him as a “half-naked kafir.”
The shutting down of Obajana is blight on Nigeria which is struggling to cope with the global unfavourable economic climate.
According to a statement by the Local Organising Committee (LOC) chairman, Mr. Adegbenro Adebanjo, the lecture, with the title ‘Information Management and Effective Governance of Tertiary Institutions’, holds on Thursday September 23, 2021 by 10am at the University Auditorium.
As much as this sounds very petty, very insignificant and at best diversionary, the instigator, from all intent and purposes, is the government, led by AbdulRahman AbduRazaq, the governor. The question people ask is: what is the motive in this policy from AbdulRazaq as he deliberately pollutes the peace of a people who had worn their religious identities inside their souls, rather than on their lapels, for ages?
The three main Nigerian leader were participants and high stakeholders in the 1959 general elections. There were Alhaji Ahmadu Bello, the teacher and local government administrator, Dr Nnamdi Azikiwe, journalist and publisher of the famous West African Pilot and Chief Obafemi Awolowo, the lawyer, trade unionist and journalist.
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I hope that the Lagos State Government would use the current attempt to restrict the movements of motorcycle taxis in Lagos to fully regulate public transportation in the megalopolis.
There is no doubt that his age would be an issue in that election.
We know that the chemistry has not always being like that in this country between the President and the Vice-President and between the Governor and his Deputy-Governor. I cannot remember whether any President has ever handed over to his Vice-President in similar circumstance. When President Umar Musa Yar’Adua was ill, Vice-President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan remained Vice-President until other forces intervened. When that brave woman, Professor Dora Akunyuli raised the issue that President Yar’Adua should be declared incapacitated, she was shouted down by loyalists in the cabinet who labeled her a traitor. In deference to them among other reasons, President Jonathan did not bring her into his government.
For both Ondo State and its new governor, it is another opportunity to make history. Akeredolu wears a luxuriant beard of the wise that makes him look like an old-time revolutionary instead of the monied bourgeois that he truly is
Indeed, we must insist that public stealing must have no place in the future of Nigeria unless Nigeria itself would have no future