This is so because these important stories are lost to some who daily indulge in the cacophony of adverse reports.
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There is no doubt that the Northern region, especially the people of Fulani ethnic stock share filial, cultural and religious affiliations with the Republic of Niger.
There is no doubt that the people, most especially the poor, are hard pressed and seeking succour from a President who promised them a better life during his electioneering campaign.
Though the list was yet to be officially unveiled, sources confirmed to The Eagle Online that the appointees have received their letters
Any follower of global economic trends in the last two years will know that all countries of the world, including the major economies, have been deploying both orthodox and unconventional means to keep prices of goods and services from spiraling out of control. While the world is still reeling from the pains of COVID-induced economic shutdowns and disruptions in global supply chains that have kept essential commodities off the shelf in many countries, the Russia-Ukraine war came to compound an already bad situation.
Lately, the competition seems to be about who can deploy the most vile and uncouth words to paint the picture of a post-apocalyptic country. To this lot, the only good time to remember in Nigeria was the First and Second Republic when political giants including Chief Obafemi Awolowo, Dr. Nnamdi Azikwe and Sir Ahmadu Bello, Alhaji Lateef Jakande, Chief Bola Ige and several others left their footprints on the sands of time. That these departed statesmen were accomplished leaders is not debatable. But positing rather unabashedly that Nigeria has not made progress since these aforementioned great men left the scene is standing good logic on its head.
Ajayi, Chief Executive Officer, Silicon Valley Nigeria Economic Development, while giving out the money on Monday in Lekki, Lagos, said that the beneficiaries who were faithful in paying up their initial loans got double the amount in the second tranche of the facility.
I don’t think South West will have Amotekun on the basis of many false equivalents and absurd outrage from those who think they are more Yoruba than others. For all its apparent laudable objectives, it appears that the South West Governors didn’t do enough to get the support of the Federal Government on this. The whole Amotekun thing is more political than legal.
Sunday Dare’s reputation as a journalist of conscience will require a catalogue to capture.
Jimi Agbaje, the governorship candidate of Peoples Democratic Party in Lagos State, has always based his ill-fated ambition to be governor of Lagos on empty rhetoric and stoking ember of ethnic discord.
The APC candidate in terms of profile and experience both in the private and public sectors towers far above Jimi Agbaje, the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, who is the main opponent.
I later developed it to a full length opinion article for a few online publications. This is a sequel to the earlier article. Now that President Muhammadu Buhari has told Nigerians that he would seek another term in office in the 2019 general elections, I make a new argument for him.
Switzerland about a year ago opened an 11 billion Euro rail tunnel 17 years after the project started. California is spending $77 billion to have bullet train and that is about four years budget of the Federal Government of Nigeria in dollar terms.
That Nigeria has been badly managed before now is no longer news. Every institution of state designed to protect the country looked the other way while non-state actors and gangs run riot.