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PREMIUMTIMES ANALYSIS: Buhari’s Pardon For Jailed Governors Confirms His Hidden Soft Spot For Corruption
President Muhammadu Buhari Thursday controversially pardoned two former state governors who were jailed for stealing public funds in 2018 and were yet to serve half the length of their jail terms. The former governors – […]
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Guardian (NG): Time To Curtail NURTW’s Excesses
Seldom in the history of modern societies has a state bequeathed so much power to gangsters to freely disturb its peace and stability as Lagos has endeared the National Union of Road Transport Workers (NURTW). […]
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Governors, Labour Kick As NNPC Presents N3tr Subsidy Bill To FEC
The controversies surrounding continued payment of fuel subsidy may not have ended as the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) Limited, yesterday, presented a bill of N3 trillion for deliberations at the Federal Executive Council (FEC) […]
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2023 Presidential Race May Divide The South By Azuka Onwuka
Last week, former governor of Lagos State, Senator Bola Tinubu, paid a visit to the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), and held a press conference afterwards in which he disclosed that he informed the […]
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Desmond Tutu: The Wisdom And The Courage By Minabere Ibelema
Sometime in July 1985, then Bishop Desmond Tutu was returning from a funeral on the outskirts of Johannesburg with some fellow Anglican clergy. Not far from the venue was another death in the making. A […]
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Tinubu’s Presidency: Affliction Must Not Rise a Second Time By Abimbola Adelakun
We always knew the day would come when former Lagos State governor, Bola Tinubu, would declare his interest in running for president. In a country where politics is about seizing power, his presidential ambition has […]
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Desmond Tutu, South Africa’s Anti-Apartheid Hero, Is Dead
Desmond Tutu, South Africa’s archbishop and one of the leaders of the anti-apartheid movement, has died at the age of 90. President Cyril Ramaphosa of South Africa announced in a statement on Sunday. The statement […]
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Reps Pass 2022 Budget, Raises It From N16trn To N17trn
The House of Representatives has passed the 2022 budget into law. The House also increased figure from N16,391,023,917,692 to N17,126,873,917,692. Christened “Budget of Economic Growth and Sustainability”, it will be recalled that President Muhammadu Buhari […]
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FG Will Act On Parts of #EndSARS Reports, Aays Femi Adesina
By Kunle Daramola Femi Adesina, presidential spokesperson, says the federal government will act on parts of the #EndSARS reports that fall within its ambit after state governments are done with the procedural processes. On November […]
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Banks Begin Deduction of Loans From Chronic Debtors’ Accounts
The Deposit Money Banks are recovering debts owed by chronic debtors from their accounts in other banks to curb the growth of non-performing loans in the industry, findings have revealed. Figures obtained from the Central […]
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’25m People May Lose Jobs’ — Poultry Farmers Lament Maize Scarcity, High Exchange Rate By Maryam Abdullahi
The Poultry Association of Nigeria (PAN) says 25 million people risk losing their jobs over the crisis affecting the poultry industry. Ezekiel Ibrahim, PAN national president, disclosed this on Saturday during the World Egg Day […]
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How Italian Police Arrested My Husband On False Charges By Wendy Igwema
It all happened one morning, 4am to be precise, on the 28th of October 2020. We were just waking up from sleep in our home in Torino. Suddenly there was a knock on the door. […]
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Nigeria’s U.S. Embassy, Consulates Uncover Fake Website For Passport Application
The Nigerian Embassy and Consulates-General in the U.S. have raised alarm over a fake website for passport application. The alarm was jointly sounded Thursday by the Embassy of Nigeria in Washington, DC, the Consulate-General of […]
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EDITORIAL: The Twin-Tragedy of Nigerian Doctors’ Strike And Mass Exodus
The lingering strike by resident doctors and the simultaneous intent of many of them to leave the country for greener pastures abroad present a highly unfortunate twin-tragedy. The latter, evident in the recruitment that was […]
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Kyari As A Metaphor For Nigeria By Niran Adedokun
At the risk of sounding judgemental, and with due respect to his fundamental right to presumption of innocence, it’s a mystery that the unfolding story about Deputy Commissioner of Police Abba Kyari surprises anyone. I […]
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Bad Day For Team Nigeria In Tokyo As D’Tigers Lose Again
Team Nigeria suffered another setback in Tokyo Saturday after its highly ranked basketball team D’Tigers crashed out of the games. D’Tigers lost their third Group B game in the men’s basketball event of the Tokyo […]
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Buhari Unveils N1.7b Yearly Income-Capacity Farm Estate in Katsina
President Muhammadu Buhari, yesterday, commissioned the first integrated farm estate established by the National Agricultural Land Development Authority (NALDA) in Katsina State. The project is targeted at improving food security, generating employment and improving revenue […]
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Instagram For Customer Support, Facebook For Wider Reach… Businesses Adopt Alternatives Amid Twitter Ban
As Nigerians settled into the evening of June 4, 2021, the federal government announced the suspension of Twitter, a microblogging platform. It has been over a month since the ban was announced, TheCable spoke to […]
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Femi Adesina: Some Prophets See Nothing By Femi Adesina
There he goes again. Troublemaker. He wants to abuse our prophets, the vessels of God Almighty. Not so. Let me state from the beginning that I believe in prophecies and prophets. Good, sincere, genuine ones. […]