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By Adnan Mukhtar Tudunwada With the increase in fuel price amid closure of borders due to COVID-19, increase in electricity tariff, insecurity, lack of access to good roads, hospitals and other basic amenities; it’s an understatement to say that Nigerians are suffering. President Muhammadu Buhari was the last hope of the common man in recent…
Liberals would argue that Populist policy such as subsidy grants are hardly sustainable and that when desirable they should be targeted at production and not consumption. Proponents of this view have used this argument in support of the deregulation of petroleum products neglecting the characteristic nature of the product . Petroleum product belong to the…
EBIRA PEOPLE’S ASSOCIATION (EPA) UNITY IS STRENGTH EPA wishes to felicitate with His Excellency, Gov Yahaya Adoza Bello and the good people of Kogi State for his victory at the Supreme Court. The victory which has been consistent from election tribunal, Court of appeal and finally the Supreme Court is an affirmation of the yearnings…
by Odimayo Olatunde Many prominent Nigerians have continued to shower encomium on the exemplary leadership of a former lawmaker representing Kogi West senator Jonathan Tunde Ogbeha as he marks his 73rd birthday today 1st September 2020. Prominent citizens in the country who took turns to celebrate the living legend described him as a man for…
A nine-point agenda to be executed in three short years? This was the question on the minds of many Nigerians when President Muhammadu Buhari listed on Tuesday last week nine priority areas that he said his administration would pursue in its remaining three years in office. The aim, he said, is to improve the livelihood of…
Statement of Northern Elders Forum(NEF) on the Senate’s Call for Memoranda on Review of the Constitution. Northern Elders Forum (NEF) has taken note of the published invitation by the Senate ad-Hoc Committee on the Review of the 1999 Constitution (as amended)to the public to submit Memorandum to assist the “further alteration of the provisions of…
Dear NUJ President, My recent verbal altercation with a member of your union, who is the Cross River State Correspondent of Daily Trust newspaper during a Press Conference I addressed in Calabar refers. I wish to convey my regrets to the reporter for my response to him and I also wish to express my regrets…
Two can play the game. That should sum up the politicking surrounding the disinvitation of Mallam Nasir el-Rufai, governor of Kaduna state, for the 2020 annual general conference of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) where he was to be a guest speaker. If he was “cancelled” simply because of the allegations that he does not…
President Muhammadu Buhari’s aide, Bashir Ahmad, has reacted to the viral video of Femi Fani-Kayode, a former Aviation Minister who verbally assaulted a Daily Trust reporter, Charles Eyo. Fani-Kayode in the video could be heard raining insults on Eyo over his choice of question, while disclosing that he has a short fuse. The incident which…
Veteran journalist calls Fani-Kayode assault on reporter an assault on journalism.I can share my column later. This Can’t Wait as a journalist, I am simply outraged; first to read the views of my chairman, Emmanuel Ogbeche and later to see the clip of my dear sister, Ruona J. Meyer on events in Calabar. It’s still…
