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Front Page News & Analysis – 11th January 2018
Front Page News & Analysis – 11th January 2018
Month: January 2018
CRIME
FULL STORY: Another $44 Million Vanish From NIA Vaults | DailyTrust
As soon as it started its probe, the Osinbajo-led committee directed that the money must remain in NIA’s vault as exhibit, Daily Trust on Sunday learnt.The sources however said, “While the money remained in the […]
Government
Buhari And Nigeria’s Killing Fields By Eze Onyekpere
The fundamental duty of the state and any responsible government is the protection of lives and properties. It is about maintaining basic law and order as the foundation for citizens to go about their daily […]
Issues/Policy
It Is Time To Renegotiate Our Union
Being Text Of Speech By Pastor ‘Tunde Bakare At The State Of The Nation Broadcast On Sunday, January 14, 2018. Venue: The Latter Rain Assembly, End-Time Church, 4, Akilo Road, Off Oba Akran Avenue, Ogba, […]
Politics
By 2019, Buhari Will Be Too Old To Run Nigeria – Dele Momodu
Publisher of the World acclaimed Ovation magazine, Mr Dele Momodu, has appealed to President Muhammadu Buhari to shun the advice of those urging him to go for a second term in office in 2019. In […]
Government
Falana To FG: Release El-Zakzaky Now | PMNews
Human rights lawyer, Femi Falana has demanded from the Federal Government to immediately release Shiite leader, Sheik Ibraheem El-zakzaky from custody. Last week, it was widely rumoured in the social media that El-zakzaky had died […]
Government
Fuel Pricing: Kachikwu’s Desperate Options By Henry Boyo
Thankfully, more fuel stations are gradually reopening for “normal” business, while the severe social agony and angst instigated by the recent acute scarcity, has significantly eased, with the reported improvement in the Nigerian National Petroleum […]
Business
Punch: Investor Warns Buyers Off 9mobile
Spectrum Wireless Communication has issued a buyers beware notice on the sale of 9mobile. The solicitors to the firm, J. A. Achimugu and Co. and Dr. Reuben Atabo and Co., said by virtue of the […]
Nigeria
Nigeria Doesn’t Need Election In 2019, I Can Become President Without Election… 7 Lessons From Bakare’s National Address
Tunde Bakare, the serving overseer of the Latter Rain Assembly, says Nigeria does not need a another election in 2019. Delivering his state of the nation address at the church auditorium in Ogba, the fiery […]
Government
Electricity: The High Cost of Living In Darkness By Emma Ujah
Revealed: How and why Nigerians pay extortionist bills for little or no power supply GenCos present 7-point demand to FG AS was often the case in the past, officials of the Eko Electricity Distribution Company, […]
Issues/Policy
A Historic Handshake For Freedom (2) By Ochereome Nnanna
IN the first part of this article, we agreed to some extent with the assertion that the South has tended to queue up behind the North whenever the latter decides on the direction it wants […]
Government
Fuel Price Hikes As Dividends of Democracy By Owei Lakemfa
THE populace was ecstatic on May 29, 1999 when the military finally departed after a renewed dictatorship of 15 years. Expectations were very high. The new President was Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, a former military ruler […]
Politics
Test Your Popularity Now, PDP Challenges APC
ABUJA—Peoples ABUJA—Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, yesterday, challenged the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, to immediately test its popularity among Nigerians by conducting free, fair and credible local council elections in states under its leadership.The party […]
Issues/Policy
Don’t Use Benue Massacre As Political Selling Point, BVM Tells Opposition By Ochuko Akuopha
OLEH – BUHARI Volunteers Movement, BVM, Sunday told those opposed to the adminstration of President Muhammadu Buhari to ‘truly’ mourn the victims of herdsmen attack in Benue State and desist from using the killings as […]
Issues/Policy
The Fact Is Nigerians Now Know The Difference Between Anti-People APC & Development-Driven PDP – PDP By Dirisu Yakubu
ABUJA-The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Sunday challenged the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) to immediately test its popularity among Nigerians by conducting free, fair and credible local council elections in states under its leadership. The […]
Video
Issues/Policy
Madam Landowner By Kaine Agary
Almost every day, I receive unsolicited emails with offers of property for sale. Great investment opportunity, they announce. Get rid of your landlord, or be your own landlord, they advise. And who would not like […]
Life Style
Discussing Faith And Death With A Six-Year-Old By Minabere Ibelema
As an academic, I have fielded thousands of questions from students over the years. But as any parent would corroborate, none has been as tough as the questions posed by my four children during their […]
Business
Power Distributors Owe Market Operator N165bn | Punch
The total debt electricity distribution companies owe operator of the Nigerian electricity market, otherwise known as market operator, has risen to N165.21bn. Latest data obtained from the MO, an arm of the Transmission Company of […]
Politics
‘Only Idle Pastors’ll Predict Buhari’s Defeat In 2019’
A popular cleric in the Isoko South Council Area of Delta State, Silas Buowe, says only idle clerics will predict President Muhammadu Buhari’s defeat in 2019 if he seeks re-election. Buowe, a former member of […]