Latest News in Nigeria Today Monday 22nd February 2021
These are the Latest News in Nigeria Today on Monday 22nd February 2021 .
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Kagara abduction: The coup de grace to Northern monopolization
By Segun Ige IT’S a pity that the #BringBackOurBoys has suddenly died down. It’s a pity that yet another group of schoolboys has been abducted. And it’s a pity that we don’t actually know what will happen next. By the Wednesday, February 17 abduction of 42 people, including 27 students and three teachers, in theRead More
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Okonjo-Iweala’s challenges as WTO DG
COME March 1, 2021, Nigeria’s Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala will assume office as Director-General of the World Trade Organisation, WTO, to pilot world trade till August 31, 2025. She will not only be the seventh Director-General of the organization, she will also be the first woman and African to be saddled with such a prestigious butRead More
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Lórí-Iró leadership and herdsmen nationalism
By Oludayo Tade LORI-IRO (based on deliberate falsehood or lie) is a metaphoric expression that unpacks the relationship of falsehood between Nigerian politicians and the public. Popularised recently by an Ibadan-based street evangelist, Gbadamosi Ismail, Lórí-Iró is useful in dissecting the failures of social institutions in Nigeria. It reveals how relationships are consummated based onRead More
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Fani-Kayode opens up on ‘defection’: I am a lion that cannot be caged
Chief Femi Fani-Kayode, a former Aviation Minister, responds to the reactions trailing his rumoured bid to defect from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and All Progressives Congress (APC).
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Bala Mohammed school of anarchism and disunity
By Owei Lakemfa THE Nigerian state has never been as divided and besieged in its 107-year Amalgamation, as it is witnessing today. The 1966-67 crises which led to the three-year Civil War was roughly between two parts of the country. In the present crises, all parts of the country are in turmoil. The North EastRead More
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APC extends membership registration by 3 weeks
By Omeiza Ajayi The ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, has extended its ongoing nationwide membership registration by three weeks in order to allow for the capture of more intending members. The registration and update of its membership register began on Tuesday 9th February, 2021 across the 36 states of the federation and was scheduled toRead More
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Nigeria: A country that lives in denial
By Sunday Onyemaechi Eze NIGERIA is a country living in denial of its division, challenges, and troubled chequered history. Anybody who lays claim to the fact that the country is united now is living in illusion or is outrightly delusional. Right before and after independence, there was already a misunderstanding and suspicion accompanied by regionalRead More
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Keystone Bank trainees donate street sweepers’ uniforms to LAWMA
Keystone Bank Limited’s new intakes who recently graduated from the bank’s training school – The Keystone Bank Learning Academy Lagos, have donated 60 units of street sweepers’ uniforms to the Lagos State Waste Management Authority (LAWMA). A statement by the lender said the gesture, which is part of its Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) drive isRead More
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Insecurity: 44 CSOs ask Buhari to step aside or face impeachment, If…
By Gabriel Ewepu and Luminous Jannamike A coalition of 44 civil society organizations, CSOs, have asked President Muhammadu Buhari to step aside or face impeachment by the National Assembly, if he can no longer ensure the security and welfare of the Nigerian people. They made the demand at an emergency civil society joint action pressRead More
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Kagara: Why it’s difficult to use force on kidnappers — Niger govt
…Says no ransom demanded yet by bandits …Notes negotiation still on with bandits …Niger gov announces release of abducted travellers …Nothing wrong in dialoguing with bandits, says FG By Wole Mosadomi Secretary to the State Government SSG, in Niger State, Ahmed Ibrahim Matane, yesterday explained why the military cannot use force to rescue students andRead More
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