By Omoghene Benedict NIGERIANS have been urged show commitment and patriotism to overcome the series of challenges that has bedevilled the nation since it gain her independence. This call was made by Prince Tobi Dafe who identified some of the challenges to the the mistake of past leaders that are currently staring the nation. Tobi Dafe identified Nigeria as a nation that is saddle with corruption and contentment that has eaten it so hard. According to him, “Since the independence of our beloved nation Nigeria, we have had series of…
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Court Gives FG 7 Days To Fix Prices Of Foodstuffs, Petroleum Products, Others
Justice Ambrose Lewis-Allagoa of a Federal High Court, in Lagos has ordered the Federal Government to fix the prices of food stuffs, and petroleum products within seven days from today (Wednesday). The judge made the order while delivering judgment in a suit marked FHC/L/CS/869/2023, filed by human rights lawyer, Mr. Femi Falana (SAN), against the Price Control Board and the Attorney-General of the Federation (AGF). Specifically, the court ordered the Federal Government to fix the price of Milk, Flour, salt, sugar, bicycles and its spare parts, matches, motorcycles…
Read MoreAnalysis & Opinion: Is This The Land Of Our Birth?
By Sunny Awhefeada Nigeria held great promise for my generation in our childhood, and I must add that it still holds same for me despite our present ordeal! While growing up, Nigeria was the ideal place to be born and be brought up. Although we were born just after the Civil War, we grew up not knowing that a war was fought. The victims of the war put the tragic experience behind them and got sucked in by the ideal and idea of Nigerianism. We grew up in different…
Read MoreMemory Of A Nation In Distress
By Sunny Awhefeada Childhood remains for many a moment of healing nostalgia to which one can always escape and get recreation, albeit momentarily. The innocence which dominates childhood precludes one from the buffetings of life and the consequent existential crisis that trails such lashings. Poverty or riches, comfort or homelessness, parented or orphaned; childhood is one vast landscape of play and happiness that shrinks with the passage of time and age. As childhood recedes, one is confronted by what life really is. Life is a struggle. From squabbles with…
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