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Share The National Identity Management Commission (NIMC) on Monday shut down its office in the Alausa area of Lagos State due to the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. This is as the Federal Government has approved the use of agents in the National Identity Number (NIN) registration process. Tribune Online gathered that NIMC shut down its operations for the day and asked people to return the next day. It would be recalled that the Federal Government recently gave Nigerians two-week ultimatum for ...

Share Former Zamfara State governor and chieftain of the All Progressives Congress, Senator Ahmed Yarima, speaks to select journalists, including TAIWO AMODU, on his objection to granting amnesty to bandits and terrorists and how the country can overcome its worsening security challenges. Excerpts   With all the problems bedevilling this country called Nigeria, how do you think we can overcome them? First of all you need to improve the welfare of the security agencies, the police, the Departme...

Share SINCE the return to civil rule in 1999, Nigerians have had to contend with the ugly spectre of ill-prepared, ideologically vacuous, morally bankrupt and intellectually challenged leaders across the political spectrum. For many years, the office of governor, in particular, has featured tenants that never should have come anywhere close to authority. We have seen governors engaging in monumental rape of the resources of the state they were meant to steer to prosperity, using vile and uncout...

Share Comrade Femi Falana’s 20th Convocation Lecture to the Ekiti State University delivered on Wednesday, December 16, 2020 is not only topical but also profound. Titled “Restructuring and the liberation of Nigeria”, it speaks to the burning issues of the moment and cannot but command the attention of anyone bothered about this country’s dipping fortunes on all fronts and the unfortunate turn of events, especially on security of life and property, since retired General Muhammadu Buhar...

Share Fouad “Alade” Oki, by his antecedents, will qualify for recognition as a strongman of Lagos politics. The APC chieftain, who has been a thorn in the flesh of Senator Ahmed Tinubu since they parted ways politically, took a victory lap while discussing the ruling party’s politics with LANRE ADEWOLE.   Your faction of the party in Lagos wanted the dissolution of the Tunde Balogun exco and a rerun of the congresses. Both wishes have been granted by the national leadership, then do we s...

Share IT took a six years trip from Chibok to Kankara for the aiders of terror in Nigeria to have their disgrace in full. When the Chibok girls were abducted in broad daylight and driven through military checkpoints with attendant ochestrated international wailings to boot, only a few Nigerians could see through the whole drama that was unfolding at the time. In no time, the park in Abuja became a gathering point for their girls and other misaplied ladies to showcase their skills on televised i...

Share In this interview, Habeebatullah Thani, the CEO of one of Ibadan’s emerging fashion brands, Beebahouseofstitches, tells ADEKUNLE SULAIMON about her business, how Ibadan is helping business thrive and her passion for family.   How has being an entrepreneur affected your family life? It’s been a tough and beautiful journey. As a single mum of two, my kids are my whole world. The time I spend with them is my most enjoyed, but mummy also has to put food on the table. I love what I do; ...

Share What could have prompted Aunt Adelina to declare in The Feast of the Goat that “Well, that’s what politics is, you make your way over corpses…”? After seeing what politics and politicians do with us in Nigeria, should I have asked that question in the first instance? Optimists that Nigerian politicians are, they have started a race ahead of God to the year 2023; and they do not appear to mind stepping on the blood and the corpses of their brothers into that office they covet so ba...

UI VC race: Past VCs, Council members, religious leaders others meet Tuesday UI VC race: Past VCs, Council members, religious leaders others meet Tuesday Share Various stakeholders in the University of Ibadan community are to meet on Tuesday as part of measures to resolve the imbroglio that has stalled the process towards the emergence of a substantive Vice-Chancellor (VC) of the university. The meeting convened by the university’s acting Vice-Chancellor, Professor Babatunde Ekanola is expec...

Share One of the tragedies of our contemporary history is the dwindling of men with track records that are true. Yet within this sad reality are shining examples of great courage and immense exemplary lives. Prophet Temitope Balogun Joshua of the Synagogue Church of All Nations (SCOAN) occupies a most compelling platform of one who has a track record that is true. In his treatise on six characteristics of good spiritual leadership, Michael Hyatt says that good spiritual leaders, like Prophet Jo...