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Commandant of the Oyo State Western Security Network codenamed Amotekun, Colonel Olayinka Bisiriyu Olayanju, in this interview by KUNLE ODEREMI and NURUDEEN ALIMI, states reasons the security outfit is finding it extremely difficult to have a smooth working relationship with other security agencies and how it is checkmating the activities of hoodlums in the state, among other issues:
How has the experience been since Amotekun commenced operation in Oyo state?
We started operation three months ago and it has been good so far, though there are challenges like in every human endeavor and they vary from one location to the other. For instance, what we experienced within Ibadan metropolis was different from that of Ibarapa, Oyo and Oke-Ogun. The basic problem we have in Oyo State is the presence of hoodlums and violent people who appear as indigenes. Some of them left Lagos when the city became very hot and they moved to Oyo fully armed. Some of them are students who still en
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This title should remind us of Charles Dickens’s “A tale of two cities”, especially for those of us who are “old school.” To refresh our memory, “A tale of two cities” is an 1859 historical novel set in London and Paris before and during the French Revolution of 1789.
Here, Dickens asserted his belief in the possibility of resurrection and transformation on personal as well as societal level. The death of Sydney Carton secures a new, peaceful life for Lucie, Manette, Charles Darnay, and even Carton himself. Applied to our own situation, who – or what – will die for Nigeria’s resurrection and transformation, as it were? Is there still a possibility of Nigeria being saved from itself and against itself? Can we still secure a new, peaceful life for Nigeria and Nigerians or are we too far down the hill?
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Following long fuel queues that have resurfaced in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) and other states across the country, the Independent Petroleum Marketers Association of Nigeria (IPMAN) on Sunday, said Nigerians were being apprehensive over a likely increase in pump price.
This is coming on the heels of increasing queues in filling stations within Abuja, where getting the commodity seems to have become a Herculean task.
While some filling stations are dispensing the commodity at N170 per litre, some were under lock and keys.
Speaking with the Nigerian Tribune on phone in Abuja, the National President IPMAN, Elder Chinedu Okoronkwo, said there is no fuel scarcity as speculated, but consumers are merely panicky.
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IN this final article in my #BlackHistoryMonth series, I bring you major expressions in the English language that owe entire debts to the linguistic ingenuity of Black Americans. As you will find below, the contributions that African Americans have made to global English also owe debts to the enduring influences of their (West) African origins.
1 Y’all. This colloquial abbreviation of “you all,” which functions as the plural form of the pronoun “you,” is recognized as the most famous American southernism (that is, the distinctive dialectal English of the American South) to be globalized. However, although “y’all” is now part of the linguistic repertoire of not just American southerners of all races and, increasingly, the entire English-speaking world it was invented by enslaved Black Americans during slavery.