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Friday Olokor, Samson Folarin and Dennis Naku
The pan-Yoruba socio-political organisation, Afenifere, and the Pan-Niger Delta Forum have backed the Nobel laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka, that the regime of the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd) is to blame for the “alarming polarisation” of Nigeria.
The revered playwright and essayist had spoken on Wednesday during a morning television programme, Kakaaki, on
AIT, which was monitored by one of our correspondents.
He said, “There is no question at all that Nigeria is alarmingly polarised and I blame this regime, I heap the major part of the responsibility on this regime because of its now undeniable nepotistic governance. I have already cited a couple of examples.
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Eniola Akinkuotu and Samson Folarin
Nigerians have expressed outrage over the sacking of a female corporal, Olajide Omolola, because she got pregnant out of wedlock.
They slammed the Nigeria Police Force over what they described as a discriminatory law and called on rights group to fight for the woman.
The police, in a wireless message with reference number CJ:4161/EKS/IY/Vol.2/236, DTO:181330/01/2021 obtained by PUNCH Metro, said Omolola was dismissed for getting pregnant while unmarried.
The signal originated from the Department of Finance and Administration in Ado Ekiti and was addressed to the Divisional Police Officer at Iye Ekiti, where Omolola was based.
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Samson Folarin
Nobel laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka, has said the regime of the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), has run out of steam in the fight against corruption.
According to him, this has resulted in the judiciary being manipulated by powerful people in the country.
The playwright spoke on Wednesday during a television programme, Kakaaki, on
AIT, which was monitored by our correspondent.
Soyinka said the system had become corrupted so badly that court cases were being stretched out through technicalities.
“There are so many people who should be in prison if this government had not run out of steam, and so the system is being manipulated. There are cases where the prosecution had reached the level where evidence had been given on governors who had been stealing and depositing in bits and pieces so as not to flout a certain regulation. I mean cases have been taken to that level and suddenly, silence. The EFCC, which I back soli
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Samson Folarin
The Deputy Vice-Chancellor of Anchor University, Lagos, Prof. Johnson Fatokun, has narrated how he spent three days in the den of kidnappers, who abducted him last Monday.
Anchor University is a faith-based tertiary institution in Ayobo, Lagos, owned by the Deeper Christian Life Ministry.
Fatokun left Lagos to drop off his children, who were resuming their academic studies in Jos.
He had lived with his family in the North for over 20 years before moving to Lagos to take up the university’s appointment.
The Oyo State indigene, after dropping his kids in school, was returning to his base in Keffi, Nasarawa State, around 9pm on Monday, when his vehicle was attacked.
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Samson Folarin
The Ogun State Police Command on Thursday said it arrested a 25-year-old salesboy, Peter Okenu, for allegedly masterminding the robbery of his boss.
The state Police Public Relations Officer, Abimbola Oyeyemi, explained that the suspect was arrested after “painstaking investigation” by detectives from the Ifo divisional headquarters, who had been trailing Okenu and his gang since December 17, 2020, when the case was reported.
He said, “The victim of the robbery, Stephen Anyi, reported at the Ifo Police Station that his house at Kajola Phase 2 area of Ifo was invaded around 2am by a seven-man gang, who were armed with guns, cutlasses and axes. He said they held him and his family hostage before dispossessing them of N150,000, his laptop, phones, plasma television and his Toyota Highlander, with number plate, KJA 38 FZ, which they used in carrying away the items.”