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And They Claim Buhari Didn’t Do Anything By Femi Adesina

On Sunday April 30, the Media Office of the President released a 91-page document on the achievements of President Muhammadu Buhari over the past eight years. It was a job…

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Femi Adesina: Imagine If There Was No Mike Adenuga

He is there, quiet, unobtrusive, self-effacing. But he’s also there like a bull. Powerful, forceful, effective, high-octane. Sometimes you see him, most times, you don’t. That is Mike Adenuga Jnr…

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What if Nigeria-trained doctors are forced to serve Nigerians?

In December 2021, Nigeria’s Minister of Labour and Employment, Chris Ngige proposed that the Federal Government should make health workers trained by the Nigerian government to sign a bond of nine…

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Police, EFCC and a citizen’s dilemma, by Gbade Ogunwale

I filed a petition with the Federal Capital Territory Police Command seeking redress for an injustice I suffered. The petition, dated March 23, 2021, detailed a case of unlawful confiscation…

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The Final Gallop Home By Femi Adesina

There’s a saying in Yoruba language that the horse does not spurn the final gallop home. True. Home is that place you go to rest, after the labour and toil…

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Prof Nnenna Oti: How Buhari Loves Them By Femi Adesina

There’s a striking similitude between what happened in the gubernatorial election in Ekiti State in 2009, and Abia State in 2023. And two women were at the center of it…

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Rooting for journalists’ training the MIP way

The media has been under intense searchlight since the last general elections. In particular, there has been a lot of conversation around the performance of journalists pre and post elections.…

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Oil In Nasarawa: Buhari Does It Again By Femi Adesina

First it was at Kolmani, in Bauchi/Gombe States, and now President Muhammadu Buhari has struck again. In a region some people have said was fated never to produce even a…

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With PMB As Moving Spirit, NSA Monguno Leaves Footprints On The Sands Of Time

A landmark event happened in Abuja on Tuesday, March 21, 2023. President Muhammadu Buhari commissioned two architectural wonders at the Office of the National Security Adviser’s Complex at the Three…

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Femi Adesina: The ‘Good Disappointment’ We Want

It’s the figure of speech called oxymoron in literature, isn’t it? When you talk of a ‘good disappointment.’ When apparently contradictory terms appear in conjunction, it is called an oxymoron.…

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