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Jul
20
2025
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Awujale’s Burial And Aso Rock’s Graveyard Politics

Awujale’s Burial And Aso Rock’s Graveyard Politics

Opinion
FESTUS ADEDAYO “Why should I bother myself with what is done to my body when I die? Oyomesi (the council of seven high-ranking chiefs in the Oyo Empire) knows what to do with my body!” That was what immediate past Alaafin of Oyo, Oba Lamidi Adeyemi 111, told me in his palace, a few weeks before he journeyed to Ibara - where Oyo buries its kings. He was furious with Ogun State traditional rulers. His grouse was with the Obas and Chiefs Law of 2021. That law has aberrant stipulations that are repugnant to tradition and customs. One of them…
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Jul
20
2025
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Insecurity: The Narrative Is Changing In Nimbo And Eha Amufu

Insecurity: The Narrative Is Changing In Nimbo And Eha Amufu

Opinion
By SHEDDY OZOENE It is not always that any arm of the nation’s security apparatus gets praised in the pages of newspapers. It is compelling to do so today, and the Enugu State office of the Directorate of State Security (DSS) gets the prize for the manifest results of its contributions in managing insecurity in the state. It may be too early in the day to say that the threat of insecurity in the state has fully been arrested, but much progress has been made in recent months, especially in the key flashpoints of Nimbo and Eha Amufu. The DSS…
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Jul
20
2025
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Love Story Of One Gone, Not Forgotten

Love Story Of One Gone, Not Forgotten

Opinion
By OREVA GODWIN It gladdens my heart that the mere thought of writing this article puts a smile on my face. Your handsome face is forever etched in my heart. My lookalike, my first true love. My mentor. My joy. Loving you was so easy because you were a good man. Today, I declare my love for you again and remind you, even though you're gone, that you are not forgotten. Godwin Ukoko was an amazing father and a loving husband. He made our house a home built on love, unity, and support. In his words to my older siblings:…
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Jul
18
2025
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BUHARI: The Making Of A Tragic Hero

BUHARI: The Making Of A Tragic Hero

Opinion
BY ABRAHAM OGBODO Finally, President Mohammadu Buhari died on July 13, 2025. He wasn’t quite the coward alluded to by William Shakespeare in Julius Caeser. But he had died many times before his real death last Sunday. In the build-up to the 2015 presidential election, the state of his health was about the only campaign issue in the opposing camp. Senate President, Godswill Akpabio, then a pretentious promoter of President Goodluck Jonathan, had expressed deep worries. He said his own mother who was of the same age as Buhari, was suffering various forms of age-induced incapacitation and that Buhari, as…
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Jul
17
2025
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Musings on Muhammadu Buhari

Musings on Muhammadu Buhari

Opinion
By Azu Ishiekwene I met him several times after he became Nigeria’s president in 2015, but the meetings did not change my impression of him as an enigma. Yet, as history peels back layer after layer of Muhammadu Buhari’s place, we may discover the essence of his beguiling simplicity. Tight-lipped and taciturn, a soldier in bearing and character, his life was marked by complex dimensions that shaped his political and personal trajectory. Escape routeBorn on December 17, 1942, in Daura, northwest Nigeria, in a region now fraught with banditry and violent crimes, Buhari began his military career by joining the Nigerian…
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Jul
17
2025
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Courts Jail Four Persons For Internet Fraud

Courts Jail Four Persons For Internet Fraud

Crime
Justices Mahmud Abdulgafar and Sulaiman Akanbi of the Kwara State High Courts on Monday, July 14, 2025 convicted and sentenced Olaitan Abdulwahab Damilare, Maruf Quadri Kolawole, Habeeb Abiodun Jimoh, and Mubarak Moruf to jail for fraud. They were prosecuted by Ilorin Zonal Directorate of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC on separate charges that border on cheating, impersonation and obtaining under false pretences. While Damilare, Kolawole, and Jimoh were prosecuted before Justice Abdulgafar, Moruf was prosecuted before Justice Sulaiman Akanbi. The charge against Damilare reads: “That you, Olaitan Abdulwahab Damilare (a.k.a Fav), sometime in January, 2024 or thereabout at Ilorin, Kwara State within the jurisdiction of this Honourable Court, dishonestly induced one Michael, a white man to send you…
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Jul
17
2025
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Alleged N6.9bn Fraud:  EFCC To Appeal  Fayose’s Acquittal

Alleged N6.9bn Fraud:  EFCC To Appeal  Fayose’s Acquittal

News
Sequel to the judgment of Justice Chukwujekwu Aneke of the Federal High Court sitting in Ikoyi, Lagos  on Wednesday,  July 16, 2025,  acquitting and discharging a former Governor of Ekiti State,  Mr. Ayo Fayose from an alleged money laundering case preferred against him by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC,  the Commission says it is already studying the ruling with a view to appealing it. The former governor was re-arraigned  on Tuesday, July 2, 2019, alongside  Spotless Investment Limited on an 11-count charge bordering on money laundering and stealing to the tune of N6.9bn ( Six Billion Nine Hundred Naira).…
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Jul
17
2025
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Alleged $6b Mambilla Project Fraud: Court Admits More Evidence Against Ex-Minister, Olu Agunloye

Alleged $6b Mambilla Project Fraud: Court Admits More Evidence Against Ex-Minister, Olu Agunloye

News
Justice Jude Onwuegbuzie of the Federal High Court, sitting in Apo, Abuja, on Wednesday, July 16, 2025, admitted additional evidence from the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, against a former Minister of Power and Steel, Olu Agunloye. Agunloye is facing prosecution by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC on seven-count charges, bordering on official corruption and fraudulent award of Mambilla Power Project contract to the tune of $6billion (Six Billion US Dollars). The additional evidence are an investigation report of the Mambila HydroElectric Power Project, the defendant awarded to Sunrise Power &Transmission Company Limited and a warrant of arrest on Jide Sotinri. They were marked “Exhibit…
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Jul
16
2025
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Buhari Was Neither A Good Man Nor A Good President

Buhari Was Neither A Good Man Nor A Good President

Opinion
BY DOMINIC KIDZU The Nigerian political and busines elite are insuferably pretentious and miserably hypocritical to the dead, in the way they pay them generous epithets that tell little of the story of their lives, in retrospect. Unfortunately, one of my overarching bankruptcies is that I am unable to put on a bold face to these ungainly platitudes; base fawnings, false affectation and what some might tragically call crocodile tears. I thank the Almighty that history is written with the ink of cold, hard, immutable facts, not sentiment, or the tongue-tied monologue of the usually lice- infested memory of politicians…
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Jul
13
2025
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You’re Impressed With Enugu Air? Well, ‘You Ain’t Seen Nothin’ Yet’

You’re Impressed With Enugu Air? Well, ‘You Ain’t Seen Nothin’ Yet’

Entertainment, Opinion
By SHEDDY OZOENE Some colloquial statements find a way to creep into everyday use. The phrase, ‘You Ain’t Seen Nothin’ Yet’ is one of those; it became a popular idiom in everyday usage largely due to its repeated use in popular music, entertainment and lately politics, where it gained traction for expressing the idea that something bigger, more surprising, or more impressive is still to come. In classical terms, it is a double negative, which we are taught is positive, but it has been understood for what it is. The Canadian Rock band, BTO, helped popularize it in the early…
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