Category: Features & Articles
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APC Destroys Nigeria Within 9 Years
President Muhammadu Buhari of the All Progressives Congress (APC) was elected in 2015 as the Executive President of Nigeria after unseating Dr. Goodluck Jonathan, the then incumbent President under the Peoples Democratic Party. Nigerians elected Buhari to fix the mess in the nation and build on the good legacies of the Jonathan-PDP’s administration. But instead,…
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States Should be Allowed to Determine Minimum Wage, Fashola
Former Minister of Works and Housing, Babatunde Fashola, yesterday, stressed the need for states to decide their own minimum wage, saying it was important for wages to move from the exclusive to concurrent list. He noted that it was important to rationalise that wages should not be uniform if resources and cost of living…
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INVESTIGATION: Inside Abuja’s Kidney ‘Market’ Where The Rich Prey On The Poor
In this three-month long investigation, Daily Trust on Sunday went undercover to expose a shadow economy of illegal kidney trade in Nigeria’s Federal Capital Territory. One million naira is the ‘official’ price for a kidney in the black-market. This investigation uncovered a cell of kidney agents that have been planted in satellite…
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Nigeria and Politics of GodFather , Godson Rivalry
The public learnt about a long-standing battle, but the godfather-godson dynamic often fails in our politics, as seen with Tinubu and Ambode, Orji Kalu and Theodore Orji, Chimaroke Nnamani and Sullivan Chime, Rasheed Ladoja and Adebayo Alao-Akala, and Rabiu Kwankaso and Abdullahi Ganduje The godfather bestows blessings onto a godson, helps in securing…
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EXCLUSIVE: Killer-Boyfriends On The Rise In Nigeria
By Miracle Ogunde The rate at which young ladies are being used for rituals by the ‘so-called’ boyfriends is alarming. There have been several cases of this ugly incident and the recent is the story of a 300-level Biochemistry student of the University of Port Harcourt, Otuene Justina Nkang, who was allegedly used by her…
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Dear President Tinubu, Nigeria Economy Is On Live Wire
By Miracle Ogunde The expectations of Nigeria from President Bola Ahmed Tinubu since he was sworn in as President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria is to turn the economy of the nation around. Many believed that he would replicate the same feat he achieved while he was the Governor of Lagos State. But alas,…