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STATE AFFAIRS 19 SEPTEMBER 2020
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Everywhere you go, Nigerians are sparkling like diamonds in the pack, whether in academia, business, innovation, music, movie, entertainment, fashion and culture... All these properties make us unarguably the most prosperous
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Everywhere you go, Nigerians are sparkling like diamonds in the pack, whether in academia, business, innovation, music, movie, entertainment, fashion and culture... All these properties make us unarguably the most prosperous
black nation in the world and Africa’s largest economy.
— Muhammadu Buhari, Wednesday 16 September 2020
Edo Election:
Election would be conducted in the 2,627 polling units in 192 wards in the 18 LGAs of the state. INEC put the number of registered voters at 2,210,534.
— Muhammadu Buhari, Wednesday 16 September 2020
Edo Election:
Election would be conducted in the 2,627 polling units in 192 wards in the 18 LGAs of the state. INEC put the number of registered voters at 2,210,534.
483,796 PVCs were not collected.
l1,726,738 voters are eligible to take part in today’s election.
Godwin Obaseki, of Peoples Democratic Party against (PDP) against Osagie Ize-Iyamu of All Progressives Congress (APC).
14 parties are fielding candidates for the poll.
l1,726,738 voters are eligible to take part in today’s election.
Godwin Obaseki, of Peoples Democratic Party against (PDP) against Osagie Ize-Iyamu of All Progressives Congress (APC).
14 parties are fielding candidates for the poll.
STATE AFFAIRS 12 SEPTEMBER 2020
In January 2018, the Federal Government through the Minister of Defense, Mansur Dan-Ali, blamed anti-open grazing laws in some states as the cause of the killings by herdsmen.
Briefing journalists, Dan-Ali argued that the remote causes of
In January 2018, the Federal Government through the Minister of Defense, Mansur Dan-Ali, blamed anti-open grazing laws in some states as the cause of the killings by herdsmen.
Briefing journalists, Dan-Ali argued that the remote causes of
farmers-herders crisis is the take over of cattle routes by communities, thus denying the herders resources and space.
“If those routes are blocked, what happens,” he asked?
In September 2020, Buhari reechoes the view.
What should we do?
What is cattle route?
“If those routes are blocked, what happens,” he asked?
In September 2020, Buhari reechoes the view.
What should we do?
What is cattle route?
Speaking on Tuesday at the two-day ministerial performance review retreat Buhari said Trump stunned him with a piercing question about why he was killing Christians in Nigeria.
How was Buhari sitting as he spoke with Trump?
Did they look themselves in the eye?
How was Buhari sitting as he spoke with Trump?
Did they look themselves in the eye?
STATE AFFAIRS 5 SEPTEMBER 2020
Any person with sound financial knowledge will tell you that the only way to get out of this cycle of poverty is through massive investment in infrastructure. As I have always said, the problem with loans is not in taking them, but in the way,
Any person with sound financial knowledge will tell you that the only way to get out of this cycle of poverty is through massive investment in infrastructure. As I have always said, the problem with loans is not in taking them, but in the way,
loans are utilised. Oyo State cannot get out of its infrastructural deficit without taking loans targeted at developing key infrastructure.
— Seyi Makinde, Governor of Oyo State, 29 July 2020
— Seyi Makinde, Governor of Oyo State, 29 July 2020
Pursuant to the Coroners Law, Section 3(1) of which vests jurisdiction in “any Magistrate” within the jurisdiction where the violent death occurred to hold inquests... we humbly request Your Worship, on behalf of the grieving family of Richard Gbadebo, the deceased,
STATE AFFAIRS 29 AUGUST 2020
It is the search for the final solution.
The governor of Oyo State, Seyi Makinde is the man to solve the dilemma of the moment.
If he falters, the valley takes more lives.
What has Seyi got to say?
It’s about Aleshinloye Junction - valley of death.
It is the search for the final solution.
The governor of Oyo State, Seyi Makinde is the man to solve the dilemma of the moment.
If he falters, the valley takes more lives.
What has Seyi got to say?
It’s about Aleshinloye Junction - valley of death.
M.Y Akbar an Indian Muslim scholar states that the West’s next confrontation is definitely going to come from the Muslim world. “It is in the sweep of the Islamic nations from Maghreb to Pakistan that the struggle for a new world order will begin.”
How?
Why?
How?
Why?
How did he find himself operating the machine?
How come his colleagues at work did not notice what happened to him until they saw blood gushing out from another end of the machine?
Was he alone when he was dragged by the machine?
He was 21.
What does his death represent?
How come his colleagues at work did not notice what happened to him until they saw blood gushing out from another end of the machine?
Was he alone when he was dragged by the machine?
He was 21.
What does his death represent?
STATE AFFAIRS 22 AUGUST 2020
Richard Gbadebo, a 300-level student of the Department of European Studies, University of Ibadan (UI) died in July 2020 in Ibadan while working at a factory owned by Henkel Nigeria Limited. He was crushed by the machine he operated.
Richard Gbadebo, a 300-level student of the Department of European Studies, University of Ibadan (UI) died in July 2020 in Ibadan while working at a factory owned by Henkel Nigeria Limited. He was crushed by the machine he operated.
How did he come to operating the machine?
How come his colleagues at work did not notice what happened to him until they saw blood gushing out from another end of the machine?
Was he alone when he was dragged by the machine?
Are there CCTV cameras at the location?
He was 21.
How come his colleagues at work did not notice what happened to him until they saw blood gushing out from another end of the machine?
Was he alone when he was dragged by the machine?
Are there CCTV cameras at the location?
He was 21.
Have you worked in a factory?
What’s your experience?
What’s your experience?
STATE AFFAIRS 15 AUGUST 2020
Assessing the state of security in Nigeria, President Muhammadu Buhari posits:
“Nigerians know that we have done our best. However, what is coming out of the North West and the North Central is very disturbing.”
Assessing the state of security in Nigeria, President Muhammadu Buhari posits:
“Nigerians know that we have done our best. However, what is coming out of the North West and the North Central is very disturbing.”
They told us that one of the northern governors is the commander of Boko Haram in Nigeria. Boko Haram and the bandits are one and the same. They have a sophisticated network. During this lockdown their planes were moving up and down as if there was no lockdown. They were moving
ammunition, moving money, and distributing them across different parts of the country.”
— Dr. Obadia Mailafia, former Deputy Governor, Central Bank of Nigeria
It is expected that he [Mailafia] should be conversant with official information management protocols. But regrettably
— Dr. Obadia Mailafia, former Deputy Governor, Central Bank of Nigeria
It is expected that he [Mailafia] should be conversant with official information management protocols. But regrettably
STATE AFFAIRS 8 AUGUST 2020
The condition of the roads from Oke Bola to Liberty junction on the way to Molete are bad. Day in day out,the roads are getting worse and nothing has been done. Kindly come to our aid and give a lasting solution.
- Adewale Joseph on @myoyoapp
The condition of the roads from Oke Bola to Liberty junction on the way to Molete are bad. Day in day out,the roads are getting worse and nothing has been done. Kindly come to our aid and give a lasting solution.
- Adewale Joseph on @myoyoapp
Parasitic ethnic elite are uninterested in the survival of their people because they benefit through the misery of their people; they ride on their people’s sufferings step into greatness and political positioning.
— Oludayo Tade
— Oludayo Tade
Following the call by an elder statesman, Alhaji Tanko Yakassi, for Igbo presidency in 2023, Okwesilieze Nwodo, has declared that Ndigbo would join Nnamdi Kanu, to seek Biafra secession from Nigeria if South-East does not produce the president of the country in 2023.
— Vanguard
— Vanguard
STATE AFFAIRS 1 AUGUST 2020
They shot at her friend
And she was kidnapped
It happened in Lalante
She is a farmer
He was a farmer
On their way from the farm, tragedy struck
Who will wipe Modupe’s tears?
They shot at her friend
And she was kidnapped
It happened in Lalante
She is a farmer
He was a farmer
On their way from the farm, tragedy struck
Who will wipe Modupe’s tears?
Chairman of the committee, faults the non-involvement of the National Assembly in loan negotiations. He frowns at the clause in the agreement that insist the borrower waives its sovereignty in the event of its inability to repay the loans.
What is sovereignty?
Nigeria’s debt burden rises as poverty grows.
It is a dictatorship of lenders.
Nigeria’s debt burden rises as poverty grows.
It is a dictatorship of lenders.
STATE AFFAIRS 25 JULY 2020
On Wednesday Boko Haram fighters killed aid workers in Borno State and circulated the tragic video online.
In early July 2020, 37 soldiers of the Nigeria Army Special Forces were killed in an ambush by Boko Haram members along Damboa-Maiduguri road.
On Wednesday Boko Haram fighters killed aid workers in Borno State and circulated the tragic video online.
In early July 2020, 37 soldiers of the Nigeria Army Special Forces were killed in an ambush by Boko Haram members along Damboa-Maiduguri road.
To check the rising tides of violence, the army launches Operation Sahel Sanity, to tackle banditry and other crimes in the northwestern states of Katsina, Kaduna, Zamfara, Sokoto and Niger.
Has the military met your expectation?
How do we inspire the military?
Has the military met your expectation?
How do we inspire the military?
At an investigative hearing on the corruption scandal in the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC), you hear the acting chairman of the committee, Thomas Ereyitomi, calming the charged atmosphere, hitting the gavel repeatedly, saying “it’s ok”.
Is it okay?
Are you okay?
Is it okay?
Are you okay?
STATE AFFAIRS 18 JULY 2020
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Yesterday, it was Magu
Today, it is NDDC and Akpabio
Tomorrow?
Is Nigeria a betrayed country?
Ahiara Declaration published during the Nigerian Civil War by the Biafran leadership. It provides answers to the Igbo question.
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Yesterday, it was Magu
Today, it is NDDC and Akpabio
Tomorrow?
Is Nigeria a betrayed country?
Ahiara Declaration published during the Nigerian Civil War by the Biafran leadership. It provides answers to the Igbo question.
HSBC in the report Nigeria: Papering Over The Cracks, predicts that Buhari’s second term “raises the risk of limited economic progress and further fiscal deterioration.” This means the extension of the stagnation of his first term.
The Edo State gubernatorial election becomes the test for the caretaker committee of APC. However, winning the election becomes a mountain on the road of the party.
STATE AFFAIRS 11 JULY 2020
As events around the fight against corruption take complex forms, the ongoing investigation of the suspended acting-chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Ibrahim Magu, offers insights into Nigeria’s arrested development.
As events around the fight against corruption take complex forms, the ongoing investigation of the suspended acting-chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Ibrahim Magu, offers insights into Nigeria’s arrested development.
Ideas rule the world. Advanced and emerging economies having hugely invested in education, generate ideas that shape global politics and economy, thereby deciding world affairs.
Nigeria is yet to partake keenly in this global market of ideas.
It is about stepping up.
Nigeria is yet to partake keenly in this global market of ideas.
It is about stepping up.
Democracy is meant to solve the problems of failing health and education sectors, weak infrastructure, pervasive poverty, crime and frustration. When it compounds the condition of the people, it is not a government for the people.
Are you there?
Are you there?
STATE AFFAIRS 4 JULY 2020
It is to state that the factors behind Akala’s fall also made Ajimobi a casualty of politics.
It’s about Ajimobi’s wars.
As governor, Abiola Ajimobi rode roughshod over some members of his party in Oyo State and got burnt.
It is to state that the factors behind Akala’s fall also made Ajimobi a casualty of politics.
It’s about Ajimobi’s wars.
As governor, Abiola Ajimobi rode roughshod over some members of his party in Oyo State and got burnt.
Ajimobi set up a judicial commission headed by Justice Akintunde Boade to come up with recommendations for the structural redefinition of the Ibadan chieftaincy system.
The recommendations of the commission include the recognition of 32 beaded crown-wearing Obas, with the Olubadan maintaining his status as the paramount ruler of the city.
How did this affect Ajimobi’s politics?
How did this affect Ajimobi’s politics?
STATE AFFAIRS 20 JUNE 202
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Social interaction in Africa before the coming of Europeans was about family and community. This encouraged shared participation in the use of the predominant factors of production - land and labour.
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Social interaction in Africa before the coming of Europeans was about family and community. This encouraged shared participation in the use of the predominant factors of production - land and labour.
It was a system of reciprocity, kinship bonds, access to land and equity.
Colonialism meant the take-over of lands, the transformation of Africans into uprooted and poorly paid urban and rural workers. It came with a labour system that keeps the people down.
Colonialism meant the take-over of lands, the transformation of Africans into uprooted and poorly paid urban and rural workers. It came with a labour system that keeps the people down.
Meanwhile, the number of people killed by coronavirus worldwide has passed 450,000 on Thursday.
This dialogue is about the struggle to gain, exercise and control power among organized groups within Nigeria’s political system.
Hello,
I am looking for Abike
Have you seen her?
This dialogue is about the struggle to gain, exercise and control power among organized groups within Nigeria’s political system.
Hello,
I am looking for Abike
Have you seen her?
STATE AFFAIRS 6 JUNE 2020
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Despite the reluctance of government, these farmers have taken upon themselves the task to use agriculture for sustained living. But they suffer from herdsmen attacks, bad farm roads, no electricity and low harvest.
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Despite the reluctance of government, these farmers have taken upon themselves the task to use agriculture for sustained living. But they suffer from herdsmen attacks, bad farm roads, no electricity and low harvest.
He killed the lion and diffused bravery in its varieties into students that passed through the school. The boys pass out with lion hearts.
As you enter the school, close to the gate, you will find the sculpture of the late bishop firing the shot that demobilized the lion.
As you enter the school, close to the gate, you will find the sculpture of the late bishop firing the shot that demobilized the lion.
Sadly, Li Wenliang who was warned to keep quiet after raising the alarm contracted the virus and succumbed to death in February. China would later call him a national hero.
STATE AFFAIRS 30 MAY 2020
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A new governments preaches development. Before long it becomes worst. That is not to say that Akala’s time was better than Ajimobi’s.
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A new governments preaches development. Before long it becomes worst. That is not to say that Akala’s time was better than Ajimobi’s.
It is just to state that the factors behind Akala’s downfall were taken to new levels under Ajimobi’s authority.
What about Seyi Makinde?
It is about food security.
There are salary cuts and job losses.
They are inevitable?
It is the behavior of market?
Do we reform market?
What about Seyi Makinde?
It is about food security.
There are salary cuts and job losses.
They are inevitable?
It is the behavior of market?
Do we reform market?
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Can PDP be convincing to the extent of holding a better promise than APC? APC like PDP has shown that those who trust in leadership for comfort and development should learn to leak their wounds.
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Can PDP be convincing to the extent of holding a better promise than APC? APC like PDP has shown that those who trust in leadership for comfort and development should learn to leak their wounds.
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STATE AFFAIRS 23 MAY 2020
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Nigeria’s annual inflation rate has risen to 12.34 in April 2020. It is about higher food prices caused by the lockdown, to arrest Covid-19.
Does Big-Covid have the right to resist arrest?
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Nigeria’s annual inflation rate has risen to 12.34 in April 2020. It is about higher food prices caused by the lockdown, to arrest Covid-19.
Does Big-Covid have the right to resist arrest?
Those who rise in the post Covid-19 order are those who understand their societies, knowing how to reengineer them for progress.
For a future of hope, I call for a new Nigeria guided by a template for a new political and economic order.
For a future of hope, I call for a new Nigeria guided by a template for a new political and economic order.
I see the enhancing of Nigeria’s social formations. This is anchored on transformative leadership.
How about you?
What is running through your mind?
How about you?
What is running through your mind?
STATE AFFAIRS 16 MAY 2020
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Have you asked why we cannot build our societies to the standard of South Korea or Singapore even when we started the race for development at the same time?
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Have you asked why we cannot build our societies to the standard of South Korea or Singapore even when we started the race for development at the same time?
Pa Ajayi died on 3 Nov 2017 at age of 91. He was of the Awolowo school of politics. He was an astute intellectual and lawyer. He was not distracted by power. The health of the Yoruba nation was of utmost concern to him, and he wrote the book This House of Oduduwa Must Not Fall.
The bringing together of the Igbo, Hausa, Fulani, Yoruba and other tribes to form Nigeria was bound to create serious political problems as the groupings had different world views. Ethnic misunderstanding would later lead to the Nigerian civil war.
STATE AFFAIRS 9 MAY 2020
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Despite the predictions, Africa is containing the virus in its own way, considering that slightly above 2000 corona deaths have been recorded in Africa compared to 140,000 deaths in Western Europe.
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Despite the predictions, Africa is containing the virus in its own way, considering that slightly above 2000 corona deaths have been recorded in Africa compared to 140,000 deaths in Western Europe.
Africa has shown slower pattern of transmission.
However, the quoted figures are reminders to Africa to respond to the shock by looking inward for solutions to its problems.
However, the quoted figures are reminders to Africa to respond to the shock by looking inward for solutions to its problems.
The Bill, which is still a proposal subject to consideration, amendment and improvement has been assailed as a sinister attempt to turn Nigerians into guinea pigs for medical research while taking away their fundamental human rights.
— Femi Gbajabiamila
— Femi Gbajabiamila
STATE AFFAIRS 2 MAY 2020
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Edmund Obilo
Japan is an advanced nation, a world power and third biggest economy in the world. As one of the most highly educated countries, Japan has one of the most highly skilled work force in the world.
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Edmund Obilo
Japan is an advanced nation, a world power and third biggest economy in the world. As one of the most highly educated countries, Japan has one of the most highly skilled work force in the world.
Japan’s cultural values propelled it to greatness.
Why about Nigeria?
What is her value system about?
Why about Nigeria?
What is her value system about?
In March, the US enacted the largest economic stimulus package in its history, with 2 trillion dollars in coronavirus aid.
However, on Wednesday, the US revealed that its economy had suffered its most severe contraction for more than a decade.
However, on Wednesday, the US revealed that its economy had suffered its most severe contraction for more than a decade.
STATE AFFAIRS 4 APRIL 2020
It was reported that despite the threat of an epidemic, the authorities in Wuhan took the protection of the people with kid gloves. The city didnot take enough precaution when it held its annual political gathering, the People's Congress.
It was reported that despite the threat of an epidemic, the authorities in Wuhan took the protection of the people with kid gloves. The city didnot take enough precaution when it held its annual political gathering, the People's Congress.
The Oyo State government followed the Wuhan example when it invited the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) for a political jamboree in Ibadan on Wednesday 18 March 2020, at the expense of the people’s health.
Some call COVID-19 the Chinese Virus. Chinese in Europe, America, face virus-related racism and xenophobia - Sinophobia. Some have labelled them Bioterrorists. To look at the conspiracy theories is Dr Obadiah Mailafia, a development economist.
STATE AFFAIRS 7 MARCH 2020
The bottomline is that countries like the United States are preparing for the worst scenario if Nigeria fails to transform its leadership system and institutions. This brings me to Olusegun Obasanjo’s recent call:
The bottomline is that countries like the United States are preparing for the worst scenario if Nigeria fails to transform its leadership system and institutions. This brings me to Olusegun Obasanjo’s recent call:
“With the fractional political division, poor management of the economy, the non-protecting security and the politics of uncertainty in the land, we should not allow restructuring agitation to degenerate to self-determination.”
Obasanjo continues:
“There is still a window of opportunity for us to nip in the bud a possible and indeed likely agitation for self determination that will be violent, destructive and all-empowering.”
“There is still a window of opportunity for us to nip in the bud a possible and indeed likely agitation for self determination that will be violent, destructive and all-empowering.”
STATE AFFAIRS 18 JANUARY 2020
As the call for safety intensified, the marauders tightened their grips on their automatic weapons, invading communities, leaving blood and sorrow behind. The killers in the month of June 2019 were as rampaging as in the months before.
As the call for safety intensified, the marauders tightened their grips on their automatic weapons, invading communities, leaving blood and sorrow behind. The killers in the month of June 2019 were as rampaging as in the months before.
Within an eight day period from June 16, they operated in communities, countering the defenses of the state.
Concerned by the unending violence, President Buhari in his June 12 speech promised to address the problem saying “when we actively reduce inequality through investments
Concerned by the unending violence, President Buhari in his June 12 speech promised to address the problem saying “when we actively reduce inequality through investments
in social and hard infrastructure, insecurity reduces”.
Buhari can only remind victims of violence of the classical lines of W.B Yeats in the Second Coming: “The Falcon cannot hear the falconer, things fall apart, the center cannot hold. Mere anarchy is loosened upon the world.”
Buhari can only remind victims of violence of the classical lines of W.B Yeats in the Second Coming: “The Falcon cannot hear the falconer, things fall apart, the center cannot hold. Mere anarchy is loosened upon the world.”
STATE AFFAIRS 11 JANUARY 2020
They are used by politicians for election purposes. They are dumped, left to continue their street activities. Some are in prison.
Emeka Anyaoku calls for the conversion of Nigeria’s six geo-political zones into viable federating units.
They are used by politicians for election purposes. They are dumped, left to continue their street activities. Some are in prison.
Emeka Anyaoku calls for the conversion of Nigeria’s six geo-political zones into viable federating units.
The World Bank in its 2019 Nigeria Economic Update Report, says the number of Nigerians living in extreme poverty may increase by more than 30 million by 2030. That about 50 per cent of Nigeria’s almost 200 million people live in poverty.
The bank predicts that Nigeria will be home to 25 per cent of the world’s destitute people if government fails to create jobs.
Dear Nigerian,
How market?
Anyway, we will be fine.
Dear Nigerian,
How market?
Anyway, we will be fine.
STATE AFFAIRS 28 DECEMBER 2019
What about Nigeria?
Her failure to take advantage of the civil war for a new Nigeria is tied to its insistence on living in the past.
It is a lost opportunity, but if it took from the experience of the past, it would invent a future of abundance.
What about Nigeria?
Her failure to take advantage of the civil war for a new Nigeria is tied to its insistence on living in the past.
It is a lost opportunity, but if it took from the experience of the past, it would invent a future of abundance.
The Sultan of Sokoto avers: “If you are served a court order and you deliberately refuse to obey it because you are a governor, President or any influential person, then you are setting a dangerous precedent.”
Sowore and Bakare are facing seven charges preferred against them by the Federal Government. They are alleged to have conspired to commit treason, money laundering, and insulting the President.
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