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  A 33 Year Old man- Oyebowale Oladayo from Iwo, Ọ̀sun State was spotted at the front of the Ọ̀ṣun State Government Secretariat, Abeere, with his Curriculum Vitae boldly printed on a roll up banner; calling the attention of @GboyegaOyetola to the fact that he needs a job

  - Debo Akinbami Chief BUB Anyanwu and Nneoma Dora Anyanwu gave their daughter, Betty, everything but the name Ada, despite being the first child, as usual with her kinfolk. Ada, in Igbo parlance, represents the first daughter of a family; the leader, life and light of the family. But for BUB, he would rather have a child prove deserving of a space than, for mere cultural consonance, confer titular robe that would rob its holder of ultimate heights. Betty was, instead, instilled with traits that would shape her lane and lead her unto luster if care was taken. And indeed, care was taken. Betty set out, shrewdly, carefully carrying herself through the routes. She kept a fixed gaze, avoided both deliberate or accidental dirt that would smear the enviable name BUB had built by rigour. Someone has said, in the words of President Barrack Obama, that "every man is trying to live up to his father's expectations or to make up for his father's mistakes."  The former was true o...

 July 29, 2021 Press Statement   The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) demands a forensic investigation into reports that the United States (US) Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has linked head of IGP Intelligence Response Team, DCP Abba Kyari, to international fraudster, Abbas Ramon, popularly known as Hushpuppi. The revelation of the involvement of Kyari, the head of Nigeria’s intelligence response unit, as a receiver of proceeds of international fraud is worrisome, disturbing and a stain on the integrity of our nation. It is indeed disquieting that the integrity of our nation has fallen so abysmally low under the corrupt and fraud-patronizing President Muhammadu Buhari-led All Progressives Congress (APC) administration, to the extent that the head of its police intelligence unit is being charged in connection with international fraud. Our party demands that the APC administration should not sweep this matter under the carpet given the manifest rapport between Kyari and so...

  There are strong indications that the much-awaited Board of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) will be constituted next month of August. LEADERSHIP findings show that the top job at the NDDC will go to the former APC governorship candidate in Bayelsa State, Chief David Lyon. The Bayelsa-born politician has been penciled down to become the Managing Director of the interventionist Commission. Lyon hails from Southern Ijaw local government area of Bayelsa State. In the same vein, Dr. Bernard Okumagba from Delta State has been tipped for the position of Chairman of the NDDC given the fact that it is the turn of Delta to fill the chairmanship position of the Board. Others on the list as members of the NDDC Board include Chief Osamuyi Graham Igbinidu from Edo State as Executive Director, Projects. Mr. Otobong Ndem from Akwa Ibom is nominated as the Executive Director, Finance and Administration, while Mr. Saturday Uwuilekhue, Mr. Deyanbofa Dimaro, among others are also Board...

  Ondo State Governor, Arakunrin Oluwarotimi Akeredolu, SAN, has hailed the decision of the Supreme Court which upheld his victory at the October 10, 2020 governorship election in the state.  The Supreme Court, in a majority judgment delivered by Justice Emmanuel Agim, four of the seven-member panel dismissed the appeal by Eyitayo Jegede and his party, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) on the grounds that it was incompetent. Governor Akeredolu hailed the court, explaining that from the Tribunal to the Supreme Court, twelve judges have ruled in his favor and three against him.  The Governor particularly thanked the Judiciary for not yielding to any influence, adding that the glory of the election petition success is to God.  He also appreciated his legal team and those of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) and the APC.  He said: "I have every reason to thank God and appreciate the judiciary for not yielding  to any influence. We can still ...

A Yoruba officer walked up to Mr Oladipo Diya at the height of his 1997 crisis with his boss, Mr Sani Abacha. “Sir, what is happening?” The very senior officer looked away from the colonel and told him there was nothing. “Sir, did you say there is nothing?” The officer asked with a tone of rhetorics and switched to deep structure Yoruba. “Sir, ti owo ko ba se san mo, a a ka l’eri ni” (if you can no longer swing your arms, fold them on your head). The General looked away; the colonel left. That was on December 13, 1997. Nine days later, Diya fell from everything called power. He also lost his freedom – and almost his life. It was like a journalist who reportedly asked Mr Abubakar Tafawa Balewa at the Lagos airport what he would do with the political fire raging in the West. The prime minister reportedly looked around and declared: “Ikeja is part of the West and I can’t see any fire burning.” That was less than a month to the January 15, 1966 conflagration which consumed the leader who s...

 Political class and Conspiracy of Silence - Dr.Muiz Banire The security situation in Nigeria has become wholly intractable. What started as an isolated case of insurgency in some parts of Borno State has become a national malaise rapidly expanding and threatening the fragile fabric of the nation called Nigeria. The human losses at present have befuddled our capacity to take records and there is hardly an accurate account of people already consumed by the violence of the men of the gun. Thousands of lives have been snuffed out by Boko Haram bombs and guns in the northeastern parts of the country. Suddenly, the North-West caught the fever of banditry, which is operating in a most deadly fashion, leaving behind sorrow, tears and blood everywhere the unscrupulous young agents of death have chosen to carry out their nefarious businesses. Katsina State, the home state of the President, has not been spared the horrors of banditry, killing and kidnap. The volumes of death, maiming and rap...