Politics

Opinion on 1966 Coup: Pastor Tunde Bakare and the Lies of a failed State

Opinion on 1966 Coup: Pastor Tunde Bakare and the Lies of a failed State

By Chuks Iloegbunam. Pastor Tunde Bakare of The Citadel Global Community Church recently spoke through his hat while preaching a sermon. He told his congregation that, on January 15, 1966, during military action that toppled the First Republic, the soldiers that took Prime Minister Abubakar Tafawa Balewa removed his turban, poured wine on his head, and force-fed him with the alcohol. For abominating him, Balewa, just before he was shot, pronounced a curse on Ndigbo, to the effect that no one from the ethnic group will ever dare rule over Nigeria. Mr. Bakare’s story, fanciful as it sounds, is a…
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Nigeria Must Not Be Cloned Into Slavery Through Bad Leadership –  Kalu

Nigeria Must Not Be Cloned Into Slavery Through Bad Leadership – Kalu

Governance in every liberal democracy does not thrive in the face of recklessness and abuse of office using corrupt tendencies to divert public funds. Governance is all about accountability and good management of scarce resources for the sustenance and development of a sovereign society. Nigeria is not meant to be cloned and politically sold off using sheepish schemes and imposition of orders in the name of running a federal presidential system of government. Global Initiatives For Good Governance (GIGG) is not comfortable with President Muhammadu Buhari's drive to borrow 6trillion Naira to augment a tailored deficit budget or whatever jargon…
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IOK Liberation Movement: A Reprisal Attack On The Oppressors

IOK Liberation Movement: A Reprisal Attack On The Oppressors

"The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressors class are to represent and repress them" ~Karl Marx. Prince Ike Okorafor has chosen a path in the trajectories of politics to launch a reprisal attack on the oppressors, to countermand the position of Karl Marx on the oppressed and to serve as a pulley to the vulnerable and defenceless teeming population of Arochukwu State. This informed decision is a solidarity to the oppressed, repressed and politically outlawed. No wonder, Nelson Mandela opined that when a man is denied the right to live the…
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Nuno Visits Portuguese Prime Minister to strengthen Bilateral Relationship

Nuno Visits Portuguese Prime Minister to strengthen Bilateral Relationship

By Comr Amos Kalu The Prime Minister of the Republic of Guinea Bissau, His Excellency,  Nuno Gomes Nabiam has paid an official visit to his Portuguese counterpart and Prime Minister, His Excellency, António Costa, in a bid to strengthen the bilateral relationship that has existed between the two countries for many years. Since he emerged as the Prime Minister of the promising West African Nation, Guinea Bissau, Nuno Nabiam has made it sacrosanct to build bilateral relationships with many countries as it is the only bedrock to advancing the economic,  social and political development of his nation through viable engagement…
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Embark on road tour to prove Nigeria safer under Buhari – APC stalwart to Lai Mohammed

A chieftain of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), Jonathan Vatsa, has challenged the Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed, to tour the country by road to prove that Nigeria is safer under President Muhammad Buhari as he claimed. Vatsa, a former Commissioner for Information and Culture in Niger State, told newsmen in Minna that the security situation facing the nation has continued to deteriorate on a daily basis with no end in sight. Asking Lai Mohammed to withdraw the statement credited to him, he said, “when you sit down in Abuja and be issuing statements just to protect…
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