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Why Tinubu must never be Nigeria’s president-Festus Adedayo
By Festus Adedayo
So I was at the Alausa Governor’s Office in Lagos. Accessing the governor was like seeking needle in a haystack. His Press Secretary sent words up that an irritant interloper had come to ferret response to a…
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Osun APC and the lyrics of reconciliation- Abiodun Komolafe
By Abiodun Komolafe
The National Reconciliation Committee of the All Progressives Congress (APC) came to Osun State, recently, in a long-overdue effort to reconcile aggrieved members of the ruling party in the State.
Going by words on…
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Kanuri Origins of the Tinubu Family in Lagos-Farooq A. Kperogi
By Farooq A. Kperogi
There is probably no “indigenous” Lagos family that is more famous than the Tinubu family. But, although the family is now clearly culturally Yoruba, its ethnic provenance is traceable to what is now Borno State,…
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Doctor’s Spectacle: National insecurity in the face of fragile health system- Khalid Sunusi…
By: Dr Khalid Sunusi Kani
Do you know that "one-third of more than 700 health facilities in Northeastern Nigeria, have been destroyed as a result of insurgency"?
I was shocked the first time I laid my hands on the report released by…
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Kano: The tax and the tormenting tight spot of the trike users-Bala Ibrahim
Kano, Nigeria’s oldest commercial centre and home to nearly five million people is heading for a total commercial mobility paralysis, as the strike of the tricycle operators, otherwise called “Adaidaita-Sahu” enters its third day today.…
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Tinubu’s tender and the ordeal of Osinbajo- Bala Ibrahim
It is now official that the national leader of the ruling APC and former governor of Lagos sate, Chief Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, the Jagaba of Borgu, has formally tendered, or put himself forward as a contender with interest in the 2023…
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Synergy panacea to our national insecurity- Tanko Yakasai
By Tanko Yakasai OFR
Former Secretary-General of the Arewa Consultative Forum (ACF), Anthony Sani, is correct that insecurity in Nigeria or in any other location can best be handled by a synergy among the affected people.
In order to…
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PMB: In the steps of founding fathers- A.A. Gadzama
By A.A. Gadzama
The legacies of President Muhammadu Buhari, despite frequent deliberate relegation by mischief makers, are only comparable to those of the founding fathers of the nation after independence. With the limited resources…
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Bala/Ganduje and the cowardly counter of a comic-Bala Ibrahim
As a blood pressure patient, I have special love for the comics, because they often help me laugh to low blood pressure. So whenever I meet them, or something comical comes my way, I use it to the fullest, sometimes to an overdose.…
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Bashir Tofa: The meeting that never was-Adnan Mukhtar Tudunwada
By Adnan Mukhtar Tudunwada
Whenever we lose an elder statesman or a political icon in Kano, I rush to the Facebook page of Mallam Jaafar Jaafar and Abdulaziz Abdulaziz to read their often glowing tributes. Now, I've read from that of…
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