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10 tasks Nigeria's new service chiefs should set themselves
Ayo Akinfe They should ask President Buhari to set up a fourth military service known as the National Guard or Republican Guard that will be tasked solely with dealing with internal security. It will have an army, naval and air component and be...
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Buhari finally appoints new service chiefs as insecurity keeps rising across Nigeria
PRESIDENT Muhammadu has eventually responded to the growing insecurity across Nigeria by replacing all of his four military service chiefs urging the new appointees to dedicate themselves to providing security. Upon assuming office in...
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I have just been doing some arithmetic and realise that Nigeria needs to create about 5.2m jobs a year
Ayo Akinfe (1) One thing I love about figures is that they never lie. Nigeria’s population is growing at a rate of 2.6% per annum, so if we want to end all this banditry, kidnapping, terrorism, armed robbery, etc, we simply need to create jobs...
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Abuja court dismisses charges against four #EndSARS protesters arrested for demonstrating peacefully
FOUR #EndSARS protesters have had charges brought against them by the federal government quashed today by an Abuja high court which rules that they had a constitutional right to engage in peaceful protest. In November last year, the...
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Nigeria finally opts for Oxford/AstraZeneca's Covid-19 vaccine to avoid storage problems
NIGERIAN government officials have decided to proceed with the purchase of Oxford/AstraZeneca's Covid-19 vaccine later this year as part of its programme to combat the spread of the virus across the country. Medical experts have warned...
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Tension mounts in Ondo as Afenifere and ACF meet with Macban leaders and governor
TENSION is mounting across Ondo State as the seven-day deadline Governor Rotimi Akeredolu gave Fulani cattle herdsmen to vacate the local forests expired last night and the two sides are yet to thrash out an acceptable agreement. Last week,...
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Biden should tell Buhari that there will be no cooperation between their governments unless he signs a Nigerian Animal Husbandry Bill into law
Ayo Akinfe (1) Six mega cattle ranches will be established across Nigeria (2) It will become illegal for cattle to roam across Nigeria or anywhere outside designated ranches (3) All Fulani herdsmen will be disarmed by...
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Winners Chapel to create new record by building 100,000 capacity 20-storry church
WINNERS Chapel founder and Africa's richest pastorpruener Bishop David Oyedepo is set to launch another first with plans to construct the world largest megachurch auditorium to be known as the Ark Project with a capacity of 100,000...
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