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Privatisation Of NNPC: The Most Fundamental Problem With The Petroleum Industry Act (Pia) By Femi Aborisade, Esq.

On the 16th day of August 2021, President Mohammadu Buhari signed the Petroleum Industry Bill (PIB) into law. The PIB is henceforth to be referred to as the Petroleum Industry Act (PIA), pursuant to the assent of Mr. President. The PIA has been mostly criticized for providing that the Joint Venture Partners, called Settlors, shall contribute only 3% of their… Read More
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Grazing Sites: Buhari’s Political Madness, By Bayo Oluwasanmi

Each day, General Muhammadu Buhari makes a compelling cinematic portrait for the break up of Nigeria. Last week, Buhari approved the recommendation of a committee to review “with dispatch 368 grazing sites, across 25 states in the country.” On May 11, 2021, in Asaba, Delta State, 17 Southerner governors under the umbrella of Southern Governors’ Forum met and staunchly opposed… Read More
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Femi Fani-Kayode: A Sniff Of Foolishness By Remi Oyeyemi

“The stubborn listens to nobody’s advice and becomes a victim of his own delusion.”— Aesop He came out smoking. He was fire-cracking. He flailed feebly and floutingly. He gamboled ghoulishly and ghastly. It was a berserk noctambulism. Dipped in the natatorium of perplexity resulting from his own peccadilloes, he desperately swam like a cat fish in a poisoned pond. He… Read More
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PMB: Call HIM The Master Finisher: A Rejoinder to Femi Adesina By Umar Ardo (PhD)

I read with utter disgust, but not disbelief, the above-titled article credited to Femi Adesina, Adviser to President Mohammadu Buhari on Media and Publicity, in which he extolled his principal as the master finisher of abandoned projects. Castigating former leaders of the country in the said article, Adesina said his principal has turned Nigeria into heaven of finished projects. Even… Read More
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Attorney General of Rivers State v. FIRS & Anor: A misguided Decision By Kola Oyekan

The Federal High Court of Nigeria, sitting at Port Harcourt division presided by His Lordship,  Hon. Justice Stephen Dalyop Pam delivered a 45- page judgment on the 9th August 2021 in an  action instituted by the Attorney General of Rivers State against the Federal Inland Revenue  Service and the Attorney General of the Federation as the 2nd defendant. In this… Read More
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The Afghan Taliban Tragedy, By Ozodinukwe Okenwa

The Taliban extremist forces are back in power in Afghanistan. Following the gradual withdrawal of the American occupation forces the religious ‘terrorist’ government took effective control of the entire Afghan territory, one village, town or city after another, in a record speed encountering little or no resistance as they marched to the capital city, Kabul. Kabul fell to the shocking… Read More
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A Public Commentary On The Ongoing Strike By NARD Nigeria, By Antigha Cobham

It is no longer news that the Nigerian Association of Resident Doctors (NARD) has been on Strike for about sixteen days now and counting, with its attendant/devastating effect on the healthcare needs of the citizenry and common man evident across the length and breadth of the Nation. This decision to withdraw services from all the Tertiary Healthcare Institutions (THI’s) nationwide,… Read More
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Journalists For United Nigeria On Mission Impossible! By Bayo Oluwasanmi

The 33rd President of the US, Harry S. Truman, once ridiculed his political opponents that they operated according to the motto, “If you can’t convince them, then confuse them.” This is the position taken by the Journalists for United Nigeria (JUN) by not addressing the root causes of disunity in Nigeria.  Nigeria is divided in many ways that cannot easily… Read More
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Taliban: Lessons The Big Countries Cannot Learn, By Owei Lakemfa

Afghanistan is in chaos. There are videos of Afghans clinging to aircraft taking off and dropping to earth. The dominant media blames the Taliban takeover for the chaos. Not the true story. The chaos has more to do with the Western forces of occupation suddenly fleeing and abandoning the country after a 20-year misadventure, and their puppet government and armed… Read More
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