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Issues/Policy
5 million (including Nigerians) to be deported from the US?: A split Supreme Court thwarts Obama’s immigration policy…..Economist
FOR the fourth time since the death of Antonin Scalia February, a stymied Supreme Court has split 4-4 and failed to come to a decision. Of the four ties, today’s deadlock over United States v […]
Sport
Sport
Education
What’s up with the Unilag girls? by Adeniyi Ogunfowoke
The University of Lagos (UNILAG) has been in and out of the news lately. Regrettably, it has been more of bad news than good news. From the sad news of Oluchi Anekwe, the 300 level […]
Sport
Video
Sport
Tribute
Obituary: Muhammad Ali …. BBC
Muhammad Ali was, at his peak, arguably the most famous man on the planet. His prodigious boxing talent was matched only by a towering self-belief. “I am the greatest,” he said, and who could doubt […]
Government
Life Style
Ebitimi Banigo named in UK Housing crisis…….Guardian (UK)
A Russian billionaire whose business partner is a close ally of Vladimir Putin, the former chairman of a defunct Nigerian bank and a Kyrgyz vodka tycoon appear to be among more than 130 foreign buyers […]
Government
Government
At last, Senate Withdraws Anti-Social Media Bill
The senate has withdrawn the controversial frivolous petition bill, known as anti- social media bill. The red chamber announced the decision at plenary on Tuesday after David Umar, chairman of the senate committee on human […]
Government
Nationwide Strike: Why We Walked Out of Meeting With Nigerian Govt – NLC
A last minute meeting between the federal government and Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, on Tuesday night to attempt to avert a nationwide strike over increased petrol price, collapsed mid-way as representatives of the organised labour […]
CRIME
Design To Take Over Nigeria By The Fulanis | Vanguard
FIRST, let me say that the plan of the Fulanis to subtly take over Nigeria has been an old plan. Let me also say that, the cattle Fulanis are one ethnic group in Nigeria. Not […]
Issues/Policy
The Igbo and Ethnic Championship By Dr. Ugoji Egbujo
Once upon a time, cattle herdsmen sent word home. They had lost men and cattle in Saki, Oyo state. They relayed their distrust and contempt for the police and the state government. Derelict and partisan […]
Issues/Policy
Nigeria, Super Majors and Research Laggards By Sonny Atumah
The Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, and Group Managing Director(GMD) of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), Dr. Ibe Kachikwu recently contemplated a strategic petroleum products reservefor the country. He was thinking about meetingemergency […]
Life Style
Prisons By Francis Ewherido
We live in a free world, but virtually everybody is in one form of prison or the other. We are prisoners of nature and nurture. Nature refers to all of the genes and hereditary factors that […]
Issues/Policy
In Photos: Life After Boko Haram …. CNN
(CNN)Fati Abubakar knew something was wrong when a local preacher started to draw larger crowds with his outspoken rhetoric. The place was Maiduguri, the capital of Nigeria’s Borno State, and the man in question was […]
Issues/Policy
Buhari’s Govt Has Failed Nigerians – ASUU
President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration, Friday, received a damning verdict from the Academic Staff Union of Universities. ASUU, at its 19th National Delegates Conference held in Uyo, Akwa Ibom State, said Nigerians were yet to experience […]