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Politics
The new Edo assembly has still not been inaugurated – and it’s all a power play
June 18, 2019A lot of things are at stake in Edo state over the next one year – a crucial governorship election beckons and there are already maneuverings over who picks the tickets of the big parties. Governor Godwin Obaseki, who would...
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Politics
Northern APC chieftain alleges conspiracy to retain power in the North; backs Yoruba presidency
June 17, 2019Secretary of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Adamawa State, Ahmed Lawan, has publicly declared his support for the zoning of his party’s presidential ticket to the South West for the 2023 elections. Lawan told journalists in Yola, the Adamawa...
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Today's Scoops
Nigeria is cash-strapped and failing but Mustafa Chike-Obi has three big ideas to fix this
June 17, 2019Former Chief Executive Officer of the Asset Management Corporation of Nigeria (AMCON), Mustafa Chike-Obi has offered three key suggestions to the Nigerian government on how it can raise funds to finance economic growth as it faces a fiscal crisis. He...
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Today's Scoops
Armed bandits: Zamfara’s Police Commissioner announces new strategy – why he must be careful
June 17, 2019Zamfara’s new police commissioner, Usman Nagogo, has announced a change of strategy in his approach to ending banditry in the state. Nagogo has said he would seek out dialogue with the armed bandits whose activities has led to a breakdown...
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Healthcare
With only 20,000 units of blood in national supply, Nigeria has a blood shortage crisis
June 17, 2019On the World Blood Donor Day (June 14) 2019, the Nigerian Health Ministry revealed that the country has an acute shortage of blood which has resulted in a lot of “avoidable deaths” and morbidity. Per Permanent Secretary of the Health...
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Scoopinions
Nigerian government is working hard to impoverish Nigerians
June 16, 2019Godwin Emefiele, the re-appointed Governor of Nigeria’s Central Bank, announced last week that President Muhammdu Buhari has directed the blacklisting of palm oil importers from Nigeria’s banking system as part of efforts to frustrate the importation of the commodity which...
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Today's Scoops
The EU’s position on Nigeria 2019 election is a big indictment on INEC – why it matters
June 16, 2019The just released report by the European Union Election Observation Mission in Nigeria has challenged the transparency and efficiency of Nigeria’s electoral agency, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), in the 2019 elections. According to the EU report – which...
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Scoopinions
It’s a big, big world: A story about the Nigerian attitude to religion and culture
June 16, 2019What do a Nigerian Agnostic, a Czech Christian, a Japanese Shintoist, a Norwegian Atheist and a Bangladeshi Baha’i have in common? Well, apart from bipedal movement, opposable thumbs and breathing oxygen, very little to be honest. So when I found...
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BOOs
Buhari’s next cabinet: To be or not to be?
June 15, 2019“It will take the next two months before ministers can come on board. Bringing them in now may disrupt the clean-up going on. So, Nigerians just have to be patient.” This was Garba Shehu, presidential spokesman, speaking to Reuters on...
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Today's Scoops
From ‘wife of the president’ to ‘first lady’: Aisha Buhari bursts a Pres. Buhari myth
June 14, 2019Back in 2015, when President Muhammadu Buhari was still campaigning to be president and advocating for a smaller, more frugal central government, he announced that he was going to scrap the office of the First Lady. According to him, the...
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NASS
A motion to debate Buhari’s #DemocracyDay speech was shut down at the senate
June 13, 2019A motion to debate President Muhammadu Buhari’s Democracy Day speech at the senate was blocked by majority of senators on Thursday. A Plateau PDP senator, Istifanus Dung Gyang, brought the motion to debate the speech which is “already in the...
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BOOs
Buhari, June 12 and the day after
June 13, 2019As a reporter who keenly followed what transpired in Nigeria before, during and after the annulled 1993 presidential election won by the late Chief M.K.O Abiola, it was an act of courage and statesmanship for President Muhammadu Buhari to accord...
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Scoopinions
International car manufacturers have to fight used car imports in Nigeria
June 12, 2019While there are no extended data, the consensus is that many Germans only use their cars for as long as five to ten years after purchase. With the cars well-serviced in Germany and good quality road network, it means that...
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BOOs
“We can lift 100m Nigerians out of poverty in 10 years”: Pres. Buhari’s #DemocracyDay 2019 speech
June 12, 2019All Praise is due to GOD Almighty Who spared our lives to be present at this great occasion. We give thanks also that the democratic process has been further entrenched and strengthened. 2. Twenty years ago, a democratically elected government...
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Nigerian Identity
Political exclusion of southeast affirms the propaganda of Biafra extremists
June 12, 2019“Onye Nigeria, I told you one day, there will be job adverts for positions in the federal civil service, and there will be a clause: ‘No candidate from the southeast allowed’; the exclusion of Ndi Igbo from the leadership of...
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Today's Scoops
INEC to appeal Okorocha’s court victory – why it matters
June 11, 2019After its meeting on Tuesday, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) took two decisions concerning the recent court ruling that ordered it to issue a certificate of return to former Imo governor, Rochas Okorocha, as the Imo West Senator-Elect. It...
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Today's Scoops
Presidential panel refers Sen. Nwaoboshi for yet another prosecution
June 11, 2019Delta North Senator Peter Nwaoboshi already has a couple of fraud related cases he is having to answer to. This month, a Special Presidential Investigation Panel for the Recovery of Public Property recommended that Nwaoboshi be prosecuted yet again by...
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Politics
Sokoto: PDP governor, APC speaker – how it happened
June 11, 2019One unique thing: In the new dispensation, Sokoto is the only state which would have a different party controlling the executive arm and a different one controlling the legislature. This follows the emergence on Tuesday of the APC’s Aminu Manya...
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NASS
It took four years, but the APC finally gets the NASS leadership of its dreams
June 11, 2019Four years after Sen. Ahmed Lawan and Hon. Femi Gbajabiamila both lost bids to become senate president and house speaker respectively despite the backing of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), their dreams came true on Tuesday. Lawan, a senator...
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Scoopinions
How we damage Nigerian children for the culture
June 10, 2019In September 2015 when I was looking to move out of my parents’ house, a property agent took me to view a flat around Somolu. The roads weren’t bad, the street looked quiet and the flat was in good condition....
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Today's Scoops
Adeosun and Buratai now on same rank, but Chief of Army Staff has not been replaced
July 10, 2019In what initially appeared to be an army shakeup, the military has come out to debunk reports that Lt. Gen. Yusuf Buratai, the Chief of Army Staff, has been replaced...
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NASS
43 days after inauguration – Buhari sends another appointment list to the senate
July 11, 2019Just as it was in his first term, the early days of President Muhammadu Buhari’s second term is panning out like a reality television show. The president is taking his...
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Politics
Iran summons Nigeria’s envoy over Zakzaky’s continued illegal detention
July 9, 2019Iran has again stepped up awareness about the denial of the fundamental human rights of the embattled Shiite Islamic cleric, Sheikh Ibrahim El-Zakzaky, who remains in custody despite court rulings...
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Today's Scoops
One key agenda of NNPC’s new GMD will take a miracle to accomplish – why it matters
July 10, 2019Mele Kyari, the newly appointed Group Managing Director of the national oil company, Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation promised that Nigerian government owned refineries will be fully operational by 2023. He...
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Politics
Jonathan is wrong – there are three culprits to blame for non-implementation of national conference report
July 13, 2019Former President Goodluck Jonathan yesterday called for the implementation of the report of the 2014 National Constitutional Conference in view of the yearnings by Nigerians for adequate reforms. Jonathan said...
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NASS
Nigerian Senators want the death penalty for rapists — but there are two issues with that
July 11, 2019The recent rise in reporting of rape by victims is finally getting the attention of the Nigerian Senate. Backdrop: On the floor of the Senate on Tuesday, at least two...
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Politics
Customs officer who wants to succeed Hameed Ali made to undergo mental examination
July 9, 2019An Assistant Superintendent of Customs, Nura Dalhatu, who was yesterday reported to have visited the Customs Comptroller General, Col. Hameed Ali (Rtd) in his office and asked to take over...
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Today's Scoops
Sanwo-Olu declares toll free day at Lekki, Admiralty toll plazas – but it’s not a campaign plot this time
July 10, 2019Thursday, July 11th, 2019 would be a toll free day during the morning and evening peak hours at the Lekki and Admiralty toll plazas in Lagos, according to the Lagos...
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Doing Business
Nigerian Customs seized 90 containers of rice in 2017 – now a court has ordered it to pay up
July 11, 2019The Nigerian Customs Service (NCS) and its board have been ordered by a Federal High Court in Abuja to pay N5.5 billion in damages over the unlawful seizure of 90...
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Politics
Slapping Sen. Abbo arraigned by police; granted bail for N5m
July 9, 2019Senator Elisha Abbo, who represents Adamawa North Senatorial District in the Senate, was granted bail after being arraigned by the police on Monday on allegations of assault. He has been...
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Events
7 takeaways from @AbujaGSC dialogue on health financing in Nigeria
November 6, 2017The issue of health financing, funding and the rising cost of health care in Nigeria were on the front burner last Friday at the Dialogue Series of the Global Shapers...
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Politics
Buhari’s assistant sulks and melts down on national TV (Watch)
November 1, 2017Special Assistant to President Muhammadu Buhari on Prosecutions, Chief Okoi Obono-Obla, was a guest on Monday’s edition of AIT’s breakfast program, Kaakaki. Interviewed by the duo of Utibe Umoren and...
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Slider
“Boko Haram is broke” – UN
February 8, 2017The Boko Haram sect is currently plagued by financial difficulties, Jeffrey Feltman, UN under-secretary-general for political affairs, has said. Feltman said this on Tuesday, while briefing the security council on...