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LIST OF SOME DEAD ENDS IN LAGOS: SAVE YOURSELF, THE GOVT AND THE LAW ALONE CAN’T SAVE YOU
Lagos is a City of Excellence that has brought wealth to many Nigerians from various States and is home to multinationals involved in international trade and investment. The high population of people in the State supports the fact that earning at least basic living wage or income is more guaranteed in Lagos than in any other
January 18, 2021 -
AS AFRICA WHINES FOR BOBI WINE, THINGS WE MUST NOTE
For all the natural resources that Africa is blessed with, she has been bedeviled by a myriad of problems. Corrupt politicians dip their hands into public finances, insurgency and religious extremism threaten to rip nations apart, the continent is light years behind the rest of the world from a technological perspective, and the brain drain
January 17, 2021 -
OF TIGHT FISTS AND CLOSED LEGS – REDEFINING VALUE FOR A NEW GENERATION
By way of societal expectation (if not “nature”), men are generally categorised as providers, being that they are the “heads of the home”. They are expected to go out there, labour diligently, earn bread on a daily or monthly basis (depending on the nature of remuneration), and take care of themselves as well as those
January 13, 2021 -
TRUMP’S PRESTIGE IN THE BELLY OF THE SEA: WHAT NIGERIA SHOULD LEARN FROM THE U. S.
Since the U. S. elections which saw President-elect, Joe Biden, returned as the winner, U. S. democracy has been in the eye of the storm. A situation which was heightened on 6 January 2021 as the supporters of President Donald Trump caused a riot at the U. S. Capitol in an attempt to stop the
January 9, 2021 -
KADUNA ‘SEX PARTY’: IS ATTEMPTED ADULTERY A CRIME?
We are well acquainted with the news of a Sex Party proposed to hold at an undisclosed location in Kaduna State. The alleged promoters of the event have since been under the net of the authorities and the alleged hotel building (Asher Hotel) for the ‘big occasion’ has seen the teeth of excavators. The demolition
January 8, 2021 -
U. S. DEMOCRACY IN THE EYE OF THE STORM: WHY TRUMP OWES NIGERIA AN APOLOGY
With the current development at the U. S. Capitol (Capitol Building – the meeting place of the United States Congress and the seat of the legislative arm of the U. S. Federal Government), U. S. democracy is in the eye of the storm. The Washington Post reports that: A day that began with thousands of
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ELECTRICITY TARIFF INCREASE: NERC DENIES, WAVES THE LAW AT MEDIA HOUSES AND THE PEOPLE
In a viral news on 5 January 2021, it was reported that electricity tariff has been increased by 50%. According to the reports, the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) has approved over 50 per cent hike in electricity tariff effective January 1, 2021. Expectedly, the news did not go down well with Nigerians as public
January 5, 2021 -
NOTES TO LAI MOHAMMED: ICC AND OTHERS ARE NOT OPPOSITION PARTIES
In 2014, the Minister of Information, Lai Mohammed, acknowledged the International Criminal Court (ICC) as the court of last resort. This was during his presentation as the former National Publicity Secretary of the All Progressives Congress (APC) before the House of Commons, London, on 8 September 2014. He acknowledged the mandate of the ICC as
January 5, 2021
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