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Pulaaku Initiative: Tinubu’s message of hope to the north by Modibo Mustapha
It was the first Nigeria Army Chief of Staff and Former Military Governor of the defunct Northern Region, late General Hassan Usman Katsina (Ciroman Katsina), that described in the social menace of begging and destitution in the North as a Hausan-Fulani community problem. He said this during a media chart on an NTA network program in February 1992. Exactly 32 years ago.
FirstBank at 130: Enabling the Giants in Customers, Stakeholders By Bolaji Israel
March 31st, 2024 marks a significant milestone for FirstBank as it will attain 130 years of operation in Nigeria. From its humble beginnings in 1894 as the Bank of British West Africa, the institution has evolved into a financial behemoth and a formidable force not only in the banking industry but in the nation and beyond.
LAWMA Urges Residents To Dispose Waste Properly During Eid -El- Fitri
As Lagosians prepare to celebrate the Eid-El-Fitr festival, the Lagos
Waste Management Authority (LAWMA) has appealed to residents to shun
indiscriminate waste disposal, reiterating its commitment to ensuring a
clean and healthy environment during and after the festive season.
From Copenhagen to Abuja on two wheels
It was a hot Wednesday morning, July 21, 2001, an accident had just occurred in the upscale Mabushi District of Abuja.
My Rise Through Life: Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s Special Interview with TheNews Magazine that is now trending
To be honest with you, yes. I was lucky when I got to Chicago State University. I entered the university with honours from the Richard Daley College, because I got credit in majority of the Accounting courses.
Nigeria’s Misplaced History – Comrade Ganiyu Abdullahi
There was no country called Nigeria, before 1897. Therefore, it is exactly 125 years ago that the name “Nigeria” was coined by Miss Flora Louise Shaw, a British correspondent, who later got married to Lord Lugard (Nigeria’s first Governor-General). Her concept for this name was contained in her article, published in the London Times of 8th January, 1897. According to her “the name Nigeria, applying to no other part of Africa, may without offence to any neighbour, be accepted as co-extensive with the territories, over which the Royal Niger Company has extended British influence, and may serve to differentiate them equally from the Colonies of Lagos and the Niger Protectorate, on the coast; and from the French territories of the Upper Niger.”
Tinubu: Standing out in the crowd – Dan Agbese
The occasion of Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s 69 birthday last month invited, as such occasions are wont to do, a flood of encomiums, each intent on reminding us what a blessing the man is to our national politics. Tinubu, of course, knew that some of them spoke from both sides of the mouth. He knew that among those who loudly proclaimed his political greatness were men who could not stand his guts, his political sagacity and courage and, of course, his assumed and legitimate political ambition to climb to the top of the totem pole. There is nothing wrong with the king-maker becoming the king. He knew they did no more than stroll down the path of tradition in order to be numbered among those who appreciate him in earnest. Nothing strange there. It is the way the cook stands; it is the way it crumbles.
The Man, Bola Tinubu I know – Pius Akinyelure
I met Bola Ahmed Tinubu first time when we shortlisted his name at Mobil Oil. He appeared for the interview and we scrutinised his credentials. We referred all his credentials to the awarding institutions and we found out at Mobil that they were genuine and authentic. He would never have been employed by our organisation if any, no matter how minute, of his credentials was found wanting.
Read about the tense, high-wire politicking of the PDP first Presidential Convention, see statistic, active players and more
Exactly 22 years ago, the PDP held its first ever national convention to select a presidential candidate, and kick-start 16 years of ruling partyship in Nigeria. Jos was the battleground. Read about the tense, high-wire politicking of that day.
As Trump leaves, Soyinka replies critics of his green card tearing
Mr Donald Trump who was sworn in as President of the United States on 20 January 2017 will leave office tomorrow, Wednesday, 20 January 2021. In four years, he became a bogeyman to a large percentage of his people and outsiders. He kept the world in tenterhooks by the way he governed, making people to fear that he might, one day, set the globe on fire! That period of apprehension will be over tomorrow. Professor Wole Soyinka was among those who saw through the man and gave a storm warning to US voters that they were about to buy themselves a pile of troubles if they voted Trump in as President. Soyinka was ignored.