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- Bukunmi Adegoke
- June 30, 2022
Osun Monarch Advocates More Support, Funding For Nigerian Military
PDFPRINT Osun Monarch Cautions Against Denigrating Former Army Chief A traditional ruler in Osun state, Oba Hameed Adekunle Makama, has warned against campaign of calumny against Nigeria’s former Army Chief, Lt. General Tukur Buratai.
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- Bukola Oyeniyi
- June 17, 2022
Milking Gnats in Ondo State: An Open Letter to Governor Akeredolu
PDFPRINTJune 16, 2022 His Excellency, Mr. Oluwarotimi Odunayo Akeredolu (SAN) Governor of Ondo State, Akure, Ondo State, Nigeria. Milking Gnats in Ondo State: An Open Letter to Governor Akeredolu Dear sir,
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- Bukola Oyeniyi
- December 13, 2021
“We Want Justice and Closure” – Mrs. Aborode, widow of slain Analytical Chemist and PDP Chieftain in Igangan
PDFPRINTDecember 11, 2021 makes it one year that Dr. Fatai Aborode was murdered at Igangan, a town in Ibarapa North Local Government Area of Oyo State, Nigeria. On that fateful day, Dr. Aborode, who was
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- Bukola Oyeniyi
- December 11, 2021
“Who killed Dr. Aborode?” – Mrs. Aborode, widow of slain Analytical Chemist and PDP Chieftain, asks one year after
PDFPRINTOn December 11, 2020, four assassins took the life of Dr. Fatai Aborode, an Analytical Chemist turned politician, in Igangan, a town in Ibarapa East Local Government, Oyo State. Early that morning, Dr. Aborode and
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- Bukola Oyeniyi
- November 6, 2021
From Mercantile Economy to Import Substitution Industrialization: The Need for a New Economic Direction for Nigeria
PDFPRINT“We must always take heed that we buy no more from strangers than we sell them, for so should we impoverish ourselves and enrich them.”— Queen Elizabeth I (reigned 1558–1603), cited in Braudel, Fernand (1979:
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- Bukola Oyeniyi
- June 24, 2021
Border Closure Policy and Market Prices in Nigeria
PDFPRINTThroughout the week, the Nigeria social media space was agog over the issue of rising cost of products, especially following the current administration’s border closure policy. Using a table purportedly compiled by one @edoyakulo, which
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- Akinwole Shefiq Ariwoola
- June 3, 2021
MY ENCOUNTER WITH MAJEK FASHEK
PDFPRINTHow time flies and how people forget the dead so easily too. Yesterday marked the first anniversary of the death of this great reggae icon and it is amazing to note how people appear to
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- Bukola Oyeniyi
- March 31, 2021
Open Letter to Yoruba People Worldwide
PDFPRINTDear Omo Yoruba, Eku igba yi. Eledua a je ko yee wa. Please, let us reason together on a few pressing issues. As a way to admonish us to tell ourselves the truth at
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- Bukola Oyeniyi
- March 7, 2021
Yoruba People: A Leech in Nigeria’s Development?
PDFPRINTIn Ibadan, Southwest Nigeria, some Yoruba people picked up arms against their Hausa-Fulani internal migrants and, in the free-for-all that resulted, a few Hausa and Yoruba traders lost their lives and properties worth millions of
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- Bukola Oyeniyi
- January 20, 2021
End of an Error
PDFPRINTEnd of an Error Today, January 20th, 2021, the United States of America recorded in its annals that one Donald John Trump was the 45th President of the United States–a man who announced himself on
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- Bukola Oyeniyi
- November 19, 2020
ENDSARS PROTESTS: MATTERS ARISING
PDFPRINTPolice Brutality and EndSARS in Nigeria What started in 2017 as a Twitter campaign for the disbanding of the Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS) snowballed into mass demonstrations across major Nigerian cities between October 8 and
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- Bukola Oyeniyi
- September 30, 2020
The Quest for a Yoruba Nation: More Questions than Answers
PDFPRINTWith October 1st, 2020 knocking on our doors already, one waits with bated breath if truly Yoruba people will troop out to support Messrs. Sunday Igboho and Adams Ganiyu in their so-called demand for an
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- Bukola Oyeniyi
- August 25, 2020
COVID-19, CAMA, Mega-Church Owners And National Development
PDFPRINTAs reported in the newspapers, the Presiding Bishop of the Living Faith Church Worldwide, Bishop David Oyedepo, described his revulsion after watching news coverage of Covid-19 during the lockdown in Nigeria thus: “The atmosphere
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- SEGUN ADEGOKE
- April 28, 2020
The Funke Akindele Example
PDFPRINTAbout three weeks ago, when the government of Lagos state took a firm position on residents who flouted its lockdown directive, many hailed the move as the first step in the right direction. They felt
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- SEGUN ADEGOKE
- April 19, 2020
President Buhari pays tribute to his late Chief of Staff
PDFPRINTPresident Mohammadu Buhari, saddened by the loss on friday of his Chief of Staff, Abba Kyari, to coronavirus, wrote an emotional tribute to him. In the short tribute titled “To my Friend, Mallam Abba Kyari”,
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- Bukunmi Kolade
- April 18, 2020
President Buhari’s Chief of Staff, Abba Kyari dies of Covid-19, laid to rest in Abuja
PDFPRINTThe Chief of Staff to President Muhammadu Buhari, Mallam Abba Kyari, on 17th April 2020, succumbed to the Coronavirus disease at an undisclosed Lagos hospital. The remains of the late Chief of Staff have since
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- Bukola Oyeniyi
- April 13, 2020
Global Pandemics at a Glance
PDFPRINTMankind has a long history of peace and war, pain and pleasure, good and bad. Even amid these antipodal points, the prevalence of a disease over a whole country or the world, otherwise known as
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- Akinwole Shefiq Ariwoola
- April 13, 2020
THE LOCKDOWN: HOW EFFECTIVE?
PDFPRINTWith the possible extension of the lockdown in Lagos, Abuja and Ogun till “when necessary to lift the ban”, according to Boss Mustapha, the Secretary to the Federal Government of Nigeria and Chairman, Presidential Taskforce
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- SEGUN ADEGOKE
- April 13, 2020
Between Denial and Reality: The Covid-19 xperience
PDFPRINTWhen the coronavirus disease suddenly surfaced in Wuhan, China late in 2019 December, not a few people gave it any thought as something capable of shaking humanity the way it has done. Its grip was
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- Bukola Oyeniyi
- April 12, 2020
Press Briefing by Governor Seyi Makinde, Head of the Oyo State COVID-19 Task Force
PDFPRINTWe have made arrangements to decontaminate the State Secretariat. This will take place next week between Monday, April 13 and Wednesday, April 15, 2020. Thereafter, the Secretariat will be reopened on Monday, April 20, 2020.
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- Bukunmi Adegoke
- April 6, 2020
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Read Governor Sanwo-Olu’s letter to residents as two more Covid-19 patients recover in Lagos
PDFPRINTDear Lagosians, I have more great news for you from our Infectious Disease Hospital, Yaba. Today, two more female patients have recovered fully and have tested negative to #COVID19 twice consecutively. They have been discharged
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- Bukola Oyeniyi
- April 6, 2020
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USA and Nigeria: The Covid-19 link
PDFPRINT Early this year, President Donald J. Trump announced that he was banning migration of Nigerians and nationals of a few other countries to the United States of America–a country seen by most citizens
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- Bukunmi Adegoke
- April 6, 2020
Index Covid-19 case in Osun discharged as government ramps up efforts to control spread
PDFPRINTThe first Covid-19 patient in Osun state has been discharged from the state Isolation Centre. Governor of Osun state, Adegboyega Oyetola disclosed this while briefing the media on the state’s management of the coronavirus
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- Bukola Oyeniyi
- April 5, 2020
COVID 19: Confirmed cases in Nigeria rise to 224 as Lagos rolls out more palliatives
PDFPRINTThe National Center for Disease Control (NCDC) has confirmed 10 new cases of the novel coronavirus disease in Nigeria peaking the number at 224. The Center announced this on Sunday 5th April at 11:15
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- Bukunmi Kolade
- April 3, 2020
COVID-19 Lock down: Philanthropist gives lifeline to widows in Osun
PDFPRINTA philanthropist, Mr Success Ogunkolade, has given lifeline to a total of 100 widows in Oriade Local Government Area of Osun state by distributing food items as well as hand sanitizers amongst them. Ogunkolade made
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- Bukunmi Kolade
- March 25, 2020
DPR tasks stakeholders on safety procedures
PDFPRINTThe Department of Petroleum Resources (DPR) has tasked stakeholders on adherence to safety procedures in order to forestall disasters associated with downstream sector activities. The advisory was given at the maiden Annual General Meeting
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- Bukunmi Adegoke
- March 25, 2020
Coronavirus: Osun bans all public gatherings
PDFPRINTFollowing the berth of coronavirus on the shores of Nigeria and its continued spread despite federal government’s efforts to contain it, most state governments are now taking the initiative to ban all public gatherings.