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🏛️ 1. FEDERAL GOVERNMENT PRESS STATEMENT FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF NIGERIA Office of the Minister of Information, Propaganda & Selective Outrage PRESS RELEASE Subject: Strategic Diplomatic De-escalation for National Stability The Federal Government wishes to inform the general public that, after wide consultations, inter-agency synergy, and multi-stakeholder harmonisation for enhanced national coexistence, His Excellency President ___ has …

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The palava surrounding the Museum of West African Art (MOWAA) and former Governor Godwin Obaseki’s explanations for its funding and establishment has exposed something deeper than a mere dispute over heritage or donor money. It has put on full display the democratic anemia that marked much of Edo State’s governance during his tenure. Obaseki’s defence …

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Bello Matawalle In the grand tradition of Nigerian political theatre—where facts are optional, drama is compulsory, and press conferences qualify as performance art—Defence Minister Bello Matawalle has emerged as the new Comical Ali of Abuja. Yes, Comical Ali—the legendary Iraqi spokesman who insisted, with great confidence and zero evidence, that invading forces were being “slaughtered …

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President Donald Trump “knew about the girls” and “spent hours” with one of Jeffrey Epstein’s victims at the financier’s home, Epstein alleged in one of many newly released emails between 2011 and 2019 —which the White House blasts as all part of the Epstein “hoax”—the latest documentation of a connection between the two men that stretches back decades. …

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