“In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies but the silence of our friends” -Dr. Martin Luther King 1.0 INTRODUCTION The democratic structure of the Nigerian State has benefitted from the massive inputs of the Nigerian media for its survival and development. The Nigerian media ranks high on the pedestal of stakeholders of the Nigerian project, ... Read More »
The other day, Mr. Sam Omatseye – a writer many used to have respect for due to some reasons, including the fluidity of his prose – wrote an article entitled “Obi-nomics”. In the said article, clearly embittered by resentment, he hurled obloquies at Mr. Peter Obi. He saw Obi as a rising sun that must be totally eclipsed. I did ... Read More »
This story copyright belongs to Vanguard ONLINE Subject to ratification by President Muhammadu Buhari, Plateau State Governor, Simon Lalong, will co-ordinate the presidential campaign council of the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, as director-general. His deputy will be former Edo State Governor and ex-National Chairman of the APC, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole. In the opposition PDP, crises stemming from the presidential ... Read More »
The Gombe State Commissioner for Health, Dr. Habu Dahiru, alongside the state Epidemiologist, Nuhu Bile, has confirmed the state has joined 26 other states of the federation with incidence of monkeypox. Briefing journalists at the Public Health Emergency Operations Centre, the commissioner disclosed that out of 19 suspected cases in Gombe, no less than three persons have been confirmed to ... Read More »
The Chairman/CEO of the Nigerians in Diaspora Commission (NiDCOM), Hon. (Dr) Abike Dabiri-Erewa said the suspect in the murder of Mr. Ogochukwu Alika has been arrested by the Italian police and is expected to be charged to court . In reaction to the murder of the deceased, the NiDCOM Boss said the Italian police were working and cooperating with the ... Read More »
•LSDPC, Private Real Estate firm complete 38-flat scheme in V.I Lagos State Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu, on Tuesday, opened a mini-housing scheme in a residential neighbourhood of Victoria Island, further raising the housing stock of the State. Channel Point Apartments are a composite housing project jointly developed by the Lagos State Development and Property Corporation (LSDPC) and Brook Assets and Resources ... Read More »
Terrorists that attacked the AK-9 Abuja-Kaduna train and abducted passengers on March 28, have, on Tuesday, released five more hostages including a victim shot while in their custody, Mukhtar Shuaibu. Shuaibu was shot during a “friendly fire” while in the den of the terrorists. Tukur Mamu, the Publisher of Kaduna-based Desert Herald and Media Consultant to controversial Islamic cleric, Sheikh ... Read More »
Famous d The Osun State chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has condemned the protest embarked upon by the supporters of the Interior Minister, Mr Rauf Aregbesola, against the state leadership of the party and the administration of Governor Gboyega Oyetola. It would be recalled that the placard-carrying Aregbesola supporters under the aegis of The Osun Progressives (TOP) embarked ... Read More »
I had an extravagance of laughter when a dear friend of mine showed me a so-called column written by Sam Omatseye. To give him his due, Sam Omatseye has been somebody I always wanted to encourage; for instance, agreeing to serve as the official reviewer of his novel at its launch in Lagos barely a week after burying my father ... Read More »
Sam Omatseye: The danger of a cheap, noxious liar The Peter Obi “Obi-dient” movement continues to perplex and alarm the political structures and persona who have become comfortable in their assurance that their will, not the people’s will, truly matters in deciding the fate of Nigeria’s 200 million citizens. Over the relatively short period of six months, while a minority ... Read More »
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