Day: February 28, 2018

Dapchi 110: The tragedy of a nation

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Karma is a bitch. Poetic justice is a bastard. Both have combined to wrong-foot the incumbent Buhari administration to make it look like a big mistake and an act of misjudgment by the Nigerian electorate. If Buhari had been disallowed from taking power in 2015, and those who advised President Goodluck Jonathan not to give a damn had their way, and Jonathan had remained in power and all the current problems had surfaced, it would have been said by Nigerians that Goodluck Jonathan truncated Nigeria’s destiny. In 2015, the refrain,…

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STATE OF THE NATION: Nigeria’s in the belly of vultures

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CHIEF Tola Adeniyi, a former Managing Director of Daily Times of Nigeria, Plc, in this interview with Vanguard, bares his mind on the challenges confronting the nation and possible solutions. Adeniyi, who is set to launch a book referencing some of his media works gave reasons for making the publication at this time. Excerpts: Why did you publish this book at this time, considering the state of the country? I am bowing to pressure from friends, colleagues and the younger generation, who want to know about Tola Adeniyi and other details…

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Herdsmen render 5000 people homeless, sack 400 school children in fresh Benue attack

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Suspected herdsmen have rendered no fewer than 5,000 residents of Mbatoho Chile community, an Island close to Benue State Government House, of Makurdi local government homeless following a fresh attack. The attack took place despite the commencement of Exercise Ayem A’ Kpatuma by the military to check the incursion of herdsmen into parts of Benue state. The herdsmen also destroyed several house, farmlands and food barns of their victims. Some of the displaced persons, who fled into Makurdi main town from the island to seek the state government’s intervention, said that the…

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Terrorism: US slams sanctions on Nigeria, others

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The United States Treasury Department has added one organisation in Nigeria and other six organisations in Africa and Asia to its sanctions list for global terrorism. Two individuals — including Abu Musab Al-Barnawi of Nigeria and Mahad Moalim of Somalia — were also added to the list for their connection to the Islamic States, the US Treasury said on Tuesday. The Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control said on its website that at the group level, Bangladesh, Egypt, the Philippines, Somalia, Nigeria and Tunisia were on the list. “The additions…

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Full text of Buhari’s speech at APC NEC meeting

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President Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday harped on the need for unity within the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC. Against this backdrop, Buhari urged members of the ruling party to support Bola Tinubu, former Lagos State Governor in his bid to reconcile aggrieved members. Speaking at the party’s National Executive Committee, NEC, meeting in Abuja, Buhari anchored his appeal on the fact that elections “are looming on the horizon.” Read full statement below: Protocols: I welcome all of you dear party members to this year’s NEC meeting. Let me first record…

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