Across Nigeria
Even as the dust generated by the recent closure of Channels Television for three days by the State Security Service, SSS, is yet to abate, officials of the security agency, on 17 October, launched another assault on the press with the arrest of United States of America-based online reporter, Jonathan Elendu. The publisher of Elendu …
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There was clinking of glasses, unrestrained backslapping and a general feeling of relief in the camp of former governors across Nigeria last Tuesday. Reason? The prospect of their spending a few years behind bars or forfeiting a portion of their prized assets scattered across the world to the Nigerian state in case of their conviction …
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On Saturday 11 October, members of the Forum of Chairmen of Opposition Political Parties flew into Kano to decorate the state Governor, Mallam Ibrahim Shekarau, as the ‘Defender of Democracy’. The event which took place at the Kano Government House threw up Shekarau’s popularity at a time detractors of the dark-complexioned Kano Chief Executive were …
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Tension, which may snowball into a major industrial crisis if not quickly nipped in the bud, is mounting in the Ibadan zone of the Power Holding Company of Nigeria, PHCN. The alleged nonchalance of the zonal management to the on-going promotion exercise, particularly as it affects staff of the Marketing Department, appears to be the …
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This year’s World Igbo Day, 29 September, held in remembrance of the mass killing of Igbo resident in the North in the counter-coup of 1966, which culminated in the Nigerian Civil War, was remarkable in several ways.
One, it coincided with the Eid-el-Fitri, the festival marking the end of the Ramadan fasting season for Muslims, the …
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