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Month: August 2018
Issues/Policy
Buhari and ECOWAS Security Challenges | Punch
A change in the leadership of the Economic Community of West African States at its recent summit saw the emergence of President Muhammadu Buhari as its new chairman. He took over from Faure Gnassingbe, the […]
News
Lagos: When Waste Challenges a Mega City | Punch
It is no longer news that household waste has found its way back into the streets of Lagos, almost taking the state back to the 1999/2000 era when the metropolis was regarded as one of […]
Issues/Policy
From the Hills To Marina, Lagos (2), By Eric Teniola
There was large applause by the congregation when the provost of Cathedral Church of Christ, Marina, Lagos, Very Reverend Adebola Ojofeitimi announced the welcome of Bishop Olumokaye. In attendance at the enthronement were the deputy […]
Politics
Why the PDP Is Ten Times Better Than the APC, By Femi Aribisala
We have now had three-and-a-half years of APC rule. We have now seen what APC’s ‘change’ actually entails. We are no longer under any illusions. Even though the APC has spent the last few years […]
Politics
NASS Invasion: Osinbajo Saved Nigeria From Embarrassment – Tinubu
The National Leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC) on Tuesday commended Acting President, Yemi Osinbajo for his intervention in the blockade of the National Assembly complex. Tinubu gave the commendation while addressing party members […]
CRIME
Osinbajo Orders Immediate Overhaul of SARS
Acting President, Yemi Osinbajo, has directed the Inspector General of Police, Ibrahim Idris, to immediately overhaul the management and activities of the Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS). The order follows persistent complaints and critical reports about […]
Issues/Policy
The Power of Precedents By Rotimi Fawole
In mature democracies, pre-Trump at least, politicians speak with circumspection, for a variety of reasons. They typically make allowances for not fully knowing the minds of voters or being able to see into the future […]
Issues/Policy
Obasanjo’s Lecture On Ethics: An Assault On The Future By Sola Adeyoose
On Thursday, the 9th of August 2018, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, former President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria made what was a much-anticipated visit to the University College Hospital, Ibadan for the 17th Annual Distinguished […]
Issues/Policy
The Amazons Are Coming By Ray Ekpu
Mrs. Sarah Jubril has entered the history books as the first woman in the Fourth Republic to seek, in a semiserious manner, to be the President of Nigeria. In 2003, she pitched her tent with […]
Issues/Policy
Ogoni Clean-Up Is Well On Track By Kpobari Nafo Joseph
The attention of the Management of the Hydrocarbon Pollution Remediation Project, HYPREP has been drawn to separate publications in The Guardian Newspaper of 6th August, 2018 with the titles, “Niger Delta Leaders, Stakeholders Decry Slow […]
Law
In Defence of Executive Order No. 6 By Abubakar Sani
The overwhelmingly negative public reaction to the Preservation Of Suspicious Assets Connected With Corruption And Other Relevant Offences Order (Executive Order No. 6 of 2018) recently signed by President Muhammadu Buhari is somewhat surprising, given […]
Issues/Policy
DSS, Democracy And The Rule of Law | Guardian (NG)
Democracy is on trial in Nigeria. Tragically this ugly spectre is the consequence of a sinister connivance between some elected citizens and elemental vestiges of dictatorship epitomised by some security and quasi-security agencies in the […]
Health
Monsanto Ordered To Pay $289m As Jury Rules Weedkiller Caused Man’s Cancer | Guardian (NG)
Monsanto suffered a major blow with a jury ruling that the company was liable for a terminally ill man’s cancer, awarding him $289m in damages. Dewayne Johnson, a 46-year-old former groundskeeper, won a huge victory […]
Economy
Report: Lagos Is Third Worst City To Live In The World | TheCable
People living in Lagos, Nigeria’s economic capital, are inhabiting the third worst city for humans to live in the world. This is according to the newly released ranking of the 2018 Global Liveability Index released […]
Issues/Policy
The People Buhari, Tinubu, Saraki, Akpabio Should Emulate | Punch
The bypass to hell shouldn’t be Nigeria. It should be Australia because Australia was founded by convicts. Formerly called New South Wales, Australia is just 230 years old. The United States is merely two years […]
Issues/Policy
No N21bn, Guns Found In Lawal Daura’s House – DSS
The Department of State Services, DSS, on Monday said the rumour that N21 billion and weapons were found in the house of the sacked Director General of the DSS, Lawal Daura, was completely untrue. The […]
Entertainment
‘Go and Show How Brilliant you are in court’ — MURIC Mocks Falz Over Clampdown On His Song
The Muslim Rights Concern (MURIC) has praised the National Broadcasting Commission (NBC) and the National Film and Video Censors Board for the clampdown on Falz’s ‘This Is Nigeria’. In a statement released on Monday by […]
Issues/Policy
Dr Hadiza Bawa-Garba Wins Appeal Against Being Struck of | Guardian (UK)
A doctor convicted of manslaughter by gross negligence over the death of a six-year-old boy in her care has won her bid to be reinstated to the medical register. Dr Hadiza Bawa-Garba, a junior doctor […]
Technology
Blue Light From Smartphones Could Accelerate Blindness – Study
The blue light from digital devices like smartphones could accelerate blindness, researchers found. According to a research by the University of Toledo in the U.S., exposure to blue light continuously might cause poisonous molecules to […]