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In his hopelessly incompetent attempt to explain away President Goodluck Jonathan’s proverbial cluelessness and verbal primitivism, presidential spokesman Reuben Abati inflicted enormous violence on metaphors—and meaning itself. This ignorance is especially remarkable because Abati has a degree in Theatre Arts. First the background. On February 2, 2012, President Jonathan, while justifying the withdrawal of ...

‘Our Great Party’, the People’s Democratic Party, (PDP), the biggest of them all South of the Sahara and North of the Limpopo, (not a laughing matter!) is in search of a new Chairperson, come later this month. Even in the best of times, that is a big deal for any political party at all, more so the ruling party in Nigeria, the country with “the largest concentration of Black people under one government in t ...

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The Congress for Progressive Change, CPC, has noted, with unmistakable uneasiness, the avoidable spat between the Director-General of the Securities and Exchange Commission, SEC, Ms. Aruma Oteh and Hon. Herman Herbe, the Chairman, House of Representatives’ Committee on Capital Market at the last sitting of the probe panel on Thursday, 15th March, 2011. That the discourse degenerated to the petulant and mund ...

Immediate past commissioner for Environment in Lagos state, Dr Muiz Banire has expressed deep shock and disbelief over the death of Deputy Inspector General of Police in charge of operations, Mr John Haruna in a helicopter crash in Jos last week. He described the late top cop as a rare officer and gentleman. Banire in a statement he signed weekend further described Haruna as a detribalized and gallant offic ...

The Ex-ABU VC Earned N47 For All His Years Of Meritorious Service GUESS all this man wanted, besides being a good physician, was to be a selfless, responsible, conscientious and patriotic Nigerian, all his life; serving his Maker and humanity. And so he was. Imagine this: when in 1983, at the beginning of the second term of then President Shehu Shagari, he was made Nigeria’s permanent representative to the ...

President of the Senate, Senator David Mark at the weekend awarded scholarship to over 3000  students of Benue State origin in tertiary institutions across the country. He also announced automatic scholarship to all the first class graduates to pursue their masters degree program in any university of their choice henceforth. In addition, Senator Mark extended the scholarship to 109 physically challenged stu ...

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In its determined bid to by any means stop Congress for Progressive Change, CPC, from having as much as a whiff of the Kebbi state governorship seat in the fresh election ordered by the Supreme Court, the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has decided to woo CPC stalwart and former governor of the state under the canopy of All Nigeria Peoples Party, ANPP, Adamu Aliero, with an offer of the vice president’s seat ...