Month: February 2018

Why we are not winning the war against corruption

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Power is like fire; it can keep you warm and it can burn you. It can cook you a meal or raze your house. It can purify gold or calcify a human being. Ensconced deep within its core are elements of good and evil. It all depends on the choices you make when you handle it.” – NEWTON C. JIBUNOH Fellow Nigerians, I have some serious posers to raise today and I promise to answer them myself. One, how come every Nigerian is a saint, who pontificates about leadership, until he…

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Briggs attacks Gov Dickson for inviting Obasanjo to Niger Delta

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Niger Delta activist and former Minister for Environment, AnnKio Briggs, has attacked Governor Seriake Dickson of Bayelsa State for inviting former President Olusegun Obasanjo to the state. She said Obasanjo did not pick former President Goodluck Jonathan because of his love for Ijaw and Niger Delta, but for self-interest. Describing the former president as an enemy of the Niger Delta region, Briggs warned that anyone joining Obasanjo to “fight” President Muhammadu Buhari, does so at his or her own risk. Briggs, in a statement yesterday, also vowed that the people…

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Troops Clear More Boko Haram Terrorists’ Hideouts, Recover Arms

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Troops of Operation Lafiya Dole currently on Operation Deep Punch II which is aimed at the clearance of the remnants of Boko Haram terrorists within Sambisa forest and Lake Chad Basin general area have continued to record successes. The troops according to a statement signed by the Deputy Director Public Operation, Lafiya Dole, Colonel Onyema Nwachukwu, on Saturday explained how the troops have continued to launch offensive operations on suspected hideouts of the terrorists, keeping the insurgents on the run. “Two days ago, on Thursday, February 22, 2018, suspected Boko…

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Nigeria building Africa’s biggest free to air TV platform – Minister

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With the ongoing transition from analogue to digital television, Nigeria is building what will be Africa’s biggest and most lucrative Free To Air Television platform, according to the Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed. Speaking at the launch of the digital television in Osogbo, Osun State, on Friday, the minister said, ”With over 24 million TV households, and being the capital of African creativity in Music and Film, I am now more than convinced that we will also become the capital of Television in Africa within the next…

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I married my sister to obey God, avoid divorce –Brother

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Twenty-five-years old Mr. Cornelius Chiadi Ezeibekwe, from Ekwulobia town in Aguata Local Government Area, Anambra State has become the buzz of the moment following his wedding to his younger sister, aged 17 years. The youth of the community who couldn’t comprehend the taboo burnt down the Sabbath Church where the two were joined as husband and wife. Chiadi who is the sixth of the 10 children of Mr. Louis Ezeibekwe, is a Mathematics teacher at Community Secondary School, Isuofia, also in Aguata local government area. When Saturday Telegraph visited the…

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Senate crisis: ‘Rebel’ group emerges as Saraki adopts fire-for-fire approach

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The crisis over reordered election sequence has led to the emergence of a ‘rebel group’ in the Senate, multiple sources told Daily Trust. The group which claimed to have the backing of the Presidency emerged after marathon meetings held at the residence of a former governor in Abuja. It was gathered that the final meeting where the formation of the group was perfected held at the middle of the week. The membership of the group was said to have swelled from 14 to around 40 senators. Daily Trust reliably gathered…

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‘15,000 Nigerian women die annually from breast cancer’

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About 15, 000 women in the country die of breast cancer annually, a medical oncologist, specialized in breast cancer, Dr Bisi Ademuyiwa has said. She disclosed this yesterday during a seminar organized by AXA Mansard HMO in collaboration with the African Women’s Entrepreneurship Program (AWEP) in Abuja. Dr Ademuyiwa who is ranked by Forbes as one of the top 27  breast oncologists in the United States of America (USA) said  about 27,000 to 30, 000 women in the country were diagnosed with breast cancer every year. She said there were…

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Court affirms Henry Okah’s prison sentence

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South Africa’s top court on Friday reinstated a 24 year prison sentence for Henry Okah convicted of a series of terror attacks in Nigeria eight years ago. Okah was jailed in 2013 for masterminding a number of attacks, including twin bombings which killed 12 people in the Nigerian capital Abuja during independence day celebrations in 2010. Okah’s appeal was first heard by the Supreme Court of Appeal in 2014, which overturned four of his 13 terror convictions and reduced his sentence to 20 years, but the Constitutional Court in Johannesburg…

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Buhari assures Niger Delta of rapid development

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President Muhammadu Buhari yesterday in Abuja assured the people of the Niger Delta that his administration would continue to support rapid development in the region by consolidating on all ongoing projects and initiating new ones to create more economic opportunities and jobs for the people. He made the remark while receiving the Olu of Warri, His Royal Majesty Ogiame Ikenwoli, at the Presidential Villa, Abuja. In a statement by the Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Femi Adesina, President Buhari reiterated the Federal Government’s commitment to maintaining peace and security…

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Full text: Asiwaju Tinubu’s letter on John Oyegun’s alleged interference

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I trust that this letter finds you in good health and may that never change. I also hope that you are in an apt frame of mind to read this letter according to the spirit in which it is written and to derive apt counsel from it. Our party has travelled far in a brief time. To pull and mend the disparate legacy parties into one, we surmounted high obstacles that would have daunted others. To win the election, the then candidate Muhammadu Buhari had to campaign as never before…

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