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Nigeria is burning and crumbling on Buhari's watch and the man is making his re-election look like a mistake. Nearly two months after he was inaugurated for a second term in office, President Muhammadu Buhari has not deemed it fit to assemble the cabinet that will help him achieve his objectives, the economy continues to …
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SOME prominent Northerners are once more trying to jolt the elite out of their lethargy as poverty, deprivation and insecurity spike in the region. The first salvo came from Aliko Dangote, Africa’s richest man, whose lamentation over widespread penury was quickly followed by others, including one from the Northern Elders Forum, and the Emir of …
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Nigeria Flag From the North-East to the South-East, from the Niger Delta to the western axis of the country, the tragedy of today’s Nigeria is that security breaches occur daily with revolting impunity. Human lives are lost to brigands and blood-thirsty savages in homes, in schools, in places of worship and on the highways. Indeed, …
The Chief Priest of Okhuaihe shrine, Osarodion Usuanlele, the Ohen N’ Ukoni Neyedo, has been arrested and detained at the Edo Police headquarters in Benin City, The Nation reports. With the priest’s detention, an age-long tradition which says the Ohen N’ UKoni does not enter Benin, the abode of the Oba, had been desecrated. Consequently, …
THE earliest three celebrated musketeers of Edo politics were former Minister of Works, the late Chief Anthony Anenih; two-time Governor of the defunct Bendel State, the late Brigadier-General Samuel Ogbemudia; and the only surviving member of the group, the Esama of Benin Kingdom, Chief Gabriel Igbinedion. They decided what happened in the state politically until …
