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By Abdulqaudri Mahmud As the 2023 governorship election in Kwara state draws closer, what I do not pray to happen to Kwarans and Kwara civil servants is a Governor Yaman Abdullahi. His administration will be the repeat of former Governor Abdulfatah Ahmed’s administration where civil servants were maltreated and owed salaries for months. An administration…
By Saheed Abdullahi After the inauguration of new government led Governor Abdulrahman Abdulrazaq on May 29, 2019, Kwara populace were eager to ascertain who would constitute the appointees of the new Chief Executive of the state. The airspace of the political appointments was cloudy as nobody knew who would get what. There was like a…
By Abiodun Akinwumi Nigeria as a country has gone through different stages on its way to the sixty-first Independence Day that is being celebrated today across the nooks and crannies of the country and beyond. Though the nationalists that fought hard to gain Nigeria’s ‘demographic freedom’ could not envisage a country of over sixty years…
by Abdulhafeez Oyewole Throughout history, most societies have lived in peace most of the time. Today, we are much less likely to die in war than our parents or grandparents. Since the establishment of the United Nations and the creation of the Charter of the United Nations, governments are obligated not to use force against…
By Mukhtar Ajelogbon On June 16, 1976, nearly ten thousand black students from Soweto, South Africa, marched the streets to protest the poor quality of their education. They marched as a way to demonstrate their disapproval of the Black Education Act, which segregated students based on their race. Hundreds of innocent students were shot by…
By Mukhtar Ajelogbon Climate change causes more intense downpours that always aggravating erosion by adding to other factors destabilising soils including deforestation, unsustainable farming, mining of sand for brick-making, road construction and poorly designed drains. As rainfall increases in intensity because of climate change, landslides are becoming more common which will pose serious erosion threat…
I smile when guys create impression that there was once a “perfect struggle” in the students movement or human rights struggle in Nigeria that anti-people government did not raise its finger against it, shoot, maim, arrest and at times, kill like army of occupation.. Pls tell me one example of that “perfect struggle” and its…
MUPAF as a socioreligious group was founded some years back to sensitize the Muslim populace on the importance and benefit of political participation. The basis that brings about the existence of the organization is purely for Islam and to serve Allah by restoring good governance in the nation and the world at whole. We have…
A lot of Nigerians are surprised that news from Osun State in the past two years are cheery. That was not the casè with that state eight years before the incumbent came to office. It was either the state had over-borrowed to finance government’s inanities or the people were hungry and angry because workers were…