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Security: Counting Our Blessings

If you spend your life expecting a storm, then you may never enjoy showers of blessings. Each time it rains, you expect your roof to be blown off, and anytime…

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OON Award: Come And See Me Dey Buga…

The news came like a bolt from the blue. I had been slated to receive National Honours Award in the rank of Officer of the Order of the Niger, OON.…

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Buhari’s Footprints On Waterways

It’s an oxymoron, isn’t it? You can’t physically see footprints on water, but then, that’s what President Muhammadu Buhari has done with the country’s waterways. He has planted his footprints…

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Buhari’s last chance to prove his love for Nigerian students

By the time the Academic Staff Union of Universities calls off its nearly eight months strike, the President Muhammadu Buhari administration would have made history as the government that superintended…

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I Miss The South East We Used To Know

Each time I read of killings by gunmen in the South East, I go into the doldrums. I get mortified by the sheer waste of precious lives, the wantonness, malevolence…

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The Last Dance At UNGA

“This is the last that we shall dance together,” Wole Soyinka wrote in Kongi’s Harvest. And that was what President Muhammadu Buhari did Wednesday at the United Nations General Assembly…

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BUHARI IN IMO: A BREATH OF FRESH AIR

It was not a triumphal entry. It was not designed to be. It was just a duly and legitimately elected President visiting a part of the territory he presides over.…

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Security Updates: I See Hope

Have you keenly followed updates on the security situation in the country, particularly with regards to insurgency and banditry? You should, because security is everything. At least, when the evildoers…

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A Way out of ASUU/FG imbroglio

The die is cast. The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has declared a total, comprehensive and indefinite strike! Meanwhile, there are feelers that the Federal Government may be  trying to…

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Buhari’s footprints from home to Diaspora

Unless you are the discerning type, listening to public discourse today, you would think the only thing happening in the country is insecurity. Yes, Nigeria has battled, and is still…

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