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BUA Group: The Other Side Of The Story

The common, and perhaps, popular narrative for political, baleful and pernicious reasons, is for people to say that the Muhammadu Buhari administration has run down the economy of the country…

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‘I Still Believe In Buhari’

*Lessons From Hassan Usman, Freed Train Abductee To be troubled in trouble is to have your trouble doubled, so goes a saying. And for Hassan Usman, a lawyer, it didn’t…

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ASUU: Government can borrow if it must

In other climes a total shutdown of the public university system in a pre-election year should be a major source of worry to a ruling party that aspires to remain…

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SDGs Milestones

*N24 billion disbursed to States, 732 water facilities, 494 health facilities, 616 schools built, yet some people say Buhari is not working It’s an eternal battle between light and darkness,…

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Crying With Tobi Amusan, Nigeria Shall Win Las Las

The week began on a dolorous note. Gloomy, sepulchral. Early Sunday morning, a ghoulish video began to make the rounds, in which abductors of the train passengers held since March…

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Before Nigeria shuts down

When Singer and songwriter, Bukola Elemide, known as Asa sang the fire on the mountain song at the unveiling of the Nigerian National Petroleum  Company Limited in Abuja some days…

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Osun: Buhari Does It Again

Let me start with some clarifications. I’m from Osun State, and my homestead is Ipetumodu, in Ife North Local Government Area. And I am not Osun in Diaspora. I was…

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Buhari: Something To Remember Me By

Some people would wail about anything and everything in the country, particularly if it comes from President Muhammadu Buhari. Early in the week, that honest and forthright man said it…

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Barkindo’s Final Words To Me

Here today, gone tomorrow is a common saying. But with the then outgoing Secretary-General of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC), Alhaji Mohammed Sanusi Barkindo, it was here in…

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The real conversation on Nigeria’s higher education 

Nigerians can go anywhere perhaps including hell in their quest for higher education. They are ready also to invest any amount of money in their educational pursuits.  If you doubt…

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