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Dec
11
2024
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National Grid Collapses Again

National Grid Collapses Again

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Nigerians have again been thrown into darkness following the collapse of the national electricity grid. A tweet via the official handle of Nigeria’s national grid confirmed that the grid collapsed at about 2:09 pm on Wednesday. “The major grid setback has occurred and the restoration is to commence,” the handler wrote. Since January 2024 till date, the grid has collapsed 11 times. Within one week in October, the grid collapsed three times with its attendant blackouts, sparking reactions from Nigerians.
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Dec
11
2024
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(OPINION) A Cockroach Of Many Seasons, By PAT UTOMI

(OPINION) A Cockroach Of Many Seasons, By PAT UTOMI

Opinion
The book I am currently working on looks at how politicians underdeveloped Africa. It is to put in perspective Walter Rodney’s ‘How Europe Underdeveloped Africa’ and not to question the merits of his thesis. Divisive plays on emotion constitute one way the politicians keep us poor. Whether they are conscious of it or not is another matter. As a cockroach baited from both sides through many seasons of angst, I can feel the looming danger. By PAT UTOMI I read with much appreciation and delight Festus Adedayo’s column on Abati and Davido as cockroaches. I do not know how they…
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Dec
09
2024
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PETROAN Seals Purchase Deal With Dangote Refinery, Assures Adequate Fuel Supply During Yuletide 

PETROAN Seals Purchase Deal With Dangote Refinery, Assures Adequate Fuel Supply During Yuletide 

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Our Reporter The Petroleum Products Retail Outlets Owners Association of Nigeria (PETROAN) has assured that this year’s Christmas season will be celebrated throughout the country without petroleum product shortages. The association which last week sealed a landmark purchase deal with Dangote Refinery, said it has confidence in the measures it has put in place to ensure adequate supplies of petroleum products during and after the festive season. PETROAN which is the umbrella association of all retail outlet owners in the country says its membership of over 6,500 have put their retail outlets operators in all the states in Nigeria on…
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Dec
08
2024
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EFCC: Between Consistency And Trust

EFCC: Between Consistency And Trust

Opinion
By SHEDDY OZOENE Earlier in the month, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, obtained a ruling on a final forfeiture of an estate in Abuja containing 753 units of duplexes. The ruling of Justice Jude Onwuegbuzie, on Monday, effectively transfers the estate measuring 150,500 square metres on Plot 109 Cadastral Zone C09, Lokogoma District, Abuja, to the federal government. It is easily the single largest asset recovery by the agency since its inception in 2003, a landmark and cheery news coming from an organization that has for some time faltered on its mandate. Beyond the celebration of that landmark,…
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Dec
05
2024
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By Felix Duru Mbah
N5.2b contracts payment: Again, FCT local contractors urge Tinubu to order Wike to pay

N5.2b contracts payment: Again, FCT local contractors urge Tinubu to order Wike to pay

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Three weeks after local contractors of Federal Capital Territory Administration (FCTA), owed about N5.2billion by the Administration, penned an open letter to President Bola Ahmed Tinubu over their plight, they claim no word has come to them yet from Aso Villa on the vexed matter. The contractors also claim that the payment bill is for public welfare contracts given, procured, executed and certified for payment in the life of the administration of current FCT Minister, Barrister Nyesom Wike. These include jobs in school and hospital equipment, furniture in Minister's conference room, drainage and others.However, they remain downcast that the Minister…
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Dec
03
2024
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GRANDMA WIKINA AT 90: A Testimony In Steely Resolve

GRANDMA WIKINA AT 90: A Testimony In Steely Resolve

Opinion
By TUNDE OLUSUNLE Just days after the end of the Nigerian Civil War in January 1970, disaster struck in the home of Wikina-Emmah in Kono at the heart of Ogoniland in Rivers State. Ebenezer Saro-Wikina, eldest son of Wikina-Emmah, suddenly passed. The Ogoni were among the nationalities affected by the civil war. Multitudes from the ethnic group previously sought refuge in the area delineated as Biafra by the secessionists. They were glad to return to their ancestral homes at the end of hostilities. Ebenezer Saro-Wikina went through the stress and drudgery of "crossing the Red Sea," literally. He got back…
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Dec
02
2024
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Passport Office And The Home Delivery ‘Scam’

Passport Office And The Home Delivery ‘Scam’

Opinion
By SHEDDY OZOENE Since he assumed office as Nigeria’s Minister of the Interior on August 21, 2023, Olubunmi Tunji-Ojo has been promoted as a whizkid and a strategic planner who would introduce innovations in the ministry. At just 42, he ranks among the youngest ministers and one of the hot-heads that would stand out within the administration of President Bola Tinubu. Fittingly, the ministry of the Interior in which he supervises five key parastatals – among them the Security and Civil Defence Corps; the Nigerian Correctional Services; the Immigration Service and the Federal Fire Services - is one of the…
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Nov
30
2024
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President Tinubu Lays An Egg! – By STEVE OSUJI

President Tinubu Lays An Egg! – By STEVE OSUJI

Opinion
By STEVE OSUJI "If an African child is assured of a pint of milk in the classroom, a good sandwich or one egg daily, there will be no fear of learning."-- President Bola Tinubu in France Who writes the president’s speeches? Who manages his thoughts and actions? Do we have a strategy team in the presidency? How do we prepare for huge events like the current state visit to France? EXPRESSO asks these and so many other questions over Tinubu's current visit to France. It's obvious that the current presidency is puny in terms of knowledge stock, experience and mental…
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Nov
30
2024
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Court Strikes Out Bobrisky’s  Fundamental Rights Suit  Against EFCC

Court Strikes Out Bobrisky’s  Fundamental Rights Suit  Against EFCC

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                              Justice Alexander Owoeye of the Federal High Court sitting in Lagos has dismissed a fundamental rights suit instituted against the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, by Okuneye Idris  Olanrewaju (a.k.a Bobrisky) alleging breach of his rights by the Commission and seeking  N200million damages.  In a judgment delivered on Thursday,  November 28, 2024,  Justice Owoeye held that Bobrisky’s claims of encroachment of his rights lacked merit with no credible evidence to justify the reliefs he sought from the court.  One of the reliefs sought was an “ an order of perpetual injunction restraining the Respondents”…
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Nov
28
2024
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Dismantling Nigeria’s Criminal Political Substructure

Dismantling Nigeria’s Criminal Political Substructure

Opinion
Dismantling Nigeria’s criminal political substructure: This criminal substructure, the foundation upon which the voodoo political superstructure is erected, is the reason why rather than making progress, every new administration inflicts much more horrendous misery on the populace. No progress can be made in the circumstance unless this fatuous estate of criminality is dismantled by taking politics out of the hands of the quislings who are bingeing on our collective patrimony and daring us to do our worst. It is a challenge we must take frontally, standing on our feet or suffer the ignominy of perpetual humiliation on our knees. By…
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