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16th November, 2017: Front Pages News With Jimi Disu
16th November, 2017: Front Pages News With Jimi Disu
Month: November 2017
Issues/Policy
The Guardian View On Mugabe’s Resignation: The End of An Era In Zimbabwe
Robert Mugabe’s removal from power on Tuesday was greeted as his ascension to it 37 years earlier had been: with jubilation. In Harare there was dancing and singing, honks and cheers, and tears of joy. […]
Issues/Policy
TheGuardian: Uber Faces Slew of Investigations In Wake of ‘Outrageous’ Data Hack Cover-up
Uber is facing government scrutiny around the world in the wake of its admission it concealed a massive data breach affecting 57 million drivers and passengers. The $68bn ride-hailing company acknowledged Tuesday that hackers had […]
Nigeria
Nigeria’s Many Challenges… By Niran Alao
AS one of the octogenarian citizens of Nigeria, I perceive the country as a mentally handicapped child since its independent 57 years ago. Take it or leave it, the fact must be told of our […]
Business
Marketing In The Post Digital Age, By Jimi Awosika
Let’s not see this as a complicated demand for our vocation. Essential marketing was and always will be about storytelling. And only humans, not machines, have the capacity of the limbic brain to control our […]
Issues/Policy
The Fall of Mugabe | Tribune
THE streets of Harare exploded in jubilations and celebrations on Tuesday following the announcement of the resignation of Robert Gabriel Mugabe, who had ruled Zimbabwe for almost four decades. He is the only president that […]
Issues/Policy
The ‘Fake’ Coup in Zimbabwe, By Dele Agekameh
His attempt to install his wife as leader of the country after him betrays the same politics of inheritance that has bastardised democracy in places like Congo, Togo and even somewhat in Kenya. His tenure […]
Issues/Policy
2062: Nigeria and the Age of Jatropha, By Adewale Ajadi
Wonder what the future holds for this incredible country. The dominant country in global culture and science for the last two decades, it took one decade to double productivity per person. Agriculture and solid minerals […]
Issues/Policy
The Fall of Mugabe | Tribune
THE streets of Harare exploded in jubilations and celebrations on Tuesday following the announcement of the resignation of Robert Gabriel Mugabe, who had ruled Zimbabwe for almost four decades. He is the only president that […]
Government
Go, Mugabe, Go, By Reuben Abati
The international community must not allow Zimbabwe to continue to drift. The uncertainty that lingers in that country, if allowed to continue, could result in greater chaos and instability. The Military and the ZANU-PF have […]
Issues/Policy
When Are Nigeria’s Mugabes Going To Resign? By Festus Ogun
Zimbabwe’s President, Robert Mugabe finally resigned a week after his former political allies and the army took steps to get him out of office. The resignation signifies an expected end to the dictatorial and undemocratic […]
Politics
2019: No Automatic Ticket for Buhari – Tinubu
The National Leader of the All Progressives Congress, Bola Tinubu, has said that the party is yet to endorse President Muhammadu Buhari as its sole candidate for the 2019 presidential election. He also said the […]
Issues/Policy
Nigerian Women Are Non-Citizens By Abimbola Adelakun
In the past few weeks, a chain of events, seemingly disparate, took place both in Nigeria and/or about Nigerians. One was the news that the Nigerian military was going to end the admission of female […]
Issues/Policy
TIMELINE: From Hero to Villain: The Story of Robert Mugabe
Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe resigned on Tuesday, ending a 37-year rule that was characterised by political and economic chaos. Emmerson Mnangagwa, whom Mr. Mugabe had sacked as Zimbabwean vice president early November for being “disloyal“, would be […]
Issues/Policy
Punch: ‘Pastor’ Hypnotises, Detains Students For Years In Ogun
Operatives of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps, Lagos State Command, have apprehended a professed pastor, Abraham Roland, for allegedly running a human trafficking camp in the Mowe area of Ogun State. The NSCDC […]
Business
Nigerian States’ Debts Increase To 4% of GDP – World Bank
Although the second quarter report of the National Bureau of Statistics showed that Nigeria had exited recession, several challenges remain at different levels of government, the World Bank has warned. In a report released in […]
Economy
Is Unemployment A Battle of Two Economic Models? By Samuel Akinyele Caulcrick
The ideas of two economists, Englishman John Maynard Keynes (1883-1946) and Austrian Friedrich von Hayek (1899-1992), dominated the world economic landscape from the end of the Second World War, but with opposing views on economic […]
Security
Rating of Nigeria Police As Worst Globally | Punch
The heated debate over the incompetence or otherwise of the Nigeria Police Force will not subside anytime soon. At the weekend, three global think tanks confirmed the worst fears of Nigerians yet again with a […]
Business
Are Nigerian Food Vendors Merchants of Deaths? By Jide Ojo
Every living thing needs food and water to live. They are one of the basic necessities of life, the other two being clothing and shelter. Ironically, many Nigerians are being fed with poisons in the […]
Issues/Policy
Let The Consumers Have Meters Please | Punch
THE vexed issue of lack of meters for electricity consumers re-echoed last week when Kaduna Electricity Distribution Plc contracted three companies to provide 200,000 pre-paid meters for its customers. The initiative should jolt the regulator, […]