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In Lagos, on Thursday, June 10, President Mohammadu Buhari launched the highly anticipated Integrated National Security and Waterways Protection Infrastructure, also known as the Deep Blue Project. The project assets consist of $195 million worth of equipment that will be deployed in a coordinated effort to secure Nigerian waters along the Gulf of Guinea. The…
President Muhammadu Buhari on Thursday, June 10 2021 launched the Lagos-Ibadan railway project’s commercial operations at the Mobolaji Johnson Railway Station in Ebute Metta, Lagos, The President hailed the achievement as “another landmark in this administration’s drive to revitalize the railway system and establish it as a preferred mode of transportation for both passengers and…
On the 4th of June 2021, President Muhammadu Buhari instructed the Sports Ministry to team up with Nigerian Football Federation and come up with a 10-year National Football Master Plan for Nigeria. President Buhari gave the order when he received the Minister of Youth and Sports Development, Mr. Sunday Dare, and NFF President, Amaju Pinnick…
Few days after the latest violent attacks by scores of gunmen on Igangan, an agrarian community in Ibarapa North Local Government of Oyo State; the state governor Engr. Seyi Makinde had bemoaned the recurring wanton destruction of lives and properties in the region. He is calling on the Federal Government to permit governors in the…
As a Septuagenarian, I cannot but feel concerned for the way our great nation, Nigeria is going. In my first decades on earth which were spent in Nigeria, I saw Nigeria as a country that I was extremely proud of as my motherland. Few months before I graduated from the University of Lagos in 1972,…
I saw a video clip of a group of young Yoruba elites canvassing the creation of Oduduwa Republic. The spokesman claimed that they are not even interested in restructuring;, that it is late in the day, but the outright creation of Oduduwa Republic. Carrying placards, they insist they are fed up with Nigeria and that…
The current entanglement surrounding the suspension of a popular online platform, Twitter, seemed to have revealed what opposition politics in Nigeria is all about. It is rather regrettable that the well-being of citizens does not matter to most opponents of the government. Almost everything is about personalities and self-aggrandisement. The country’s brand of opposition politics…
Pauline Tallen, the Minister of Women’s Affairs and Social Development, has condemned artists for encouraging the abuse of women’s bodies by using filthy lyrics and presenting female dancers in a demeaning way. Tallen spoke at the presentation of the State of the World Population 2021 Reeport in Abuja on Tuesday, addressing the topic, ‘”My Body…
The President asked a question: Can they say that I have not been governing according to the Constitution? In the practice of law, lawyers are always delighted when such an open question is asked, because it is an opportunity to take up the gauntlet that has been thrown and score damning points in a case,…
On 6 June 2021, the leader of the Islamic State West African Province (ISWAP) militant group confirmed the death of Boko Haram’s leader, Abubakar Shekau. ISWAP said that it carried out Shekau’s elimination on the direct orders of the group’s leaders in the Middle East. In the last 12 years, Shekau, on several occasions, has…
