President Muhammadu Buhari on Saturday morning, addressed Nigerians to mark the 2021 Democracy Day celebration. The speech reads in full, "I join you all
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Stop Crying More Than The Bereaved, Miyetti Allah Falana Tells Buhari Government
Falana stated that the Presidency s stance on the matter has polarised the country further amid several threats to the country s unity.
by SaharaReporters, New York
May 25, 2021
Human rights lawyer, Femi Falana (SAN) has condemned the opposition of the federal government to the ban on open grazing by some Southern governors.
The Presidency had on Monday described the ban, which was one of the resolutions 17 Southern governors from the zone made during their May 11 meeting in Asaba, Delta State, as of questionable legality .
In a statement by Garba Shehu, the presidential spokesman said the governors’ action is of “questionable legality, given the constitutional right of all Nigerians to enjoy the same rights and freedoms within every one of our 36 states (and FCT) regardless of the state of their birth or residence.”
July 5: A Free Education Flashback, By Odia Ofeimun
“What was it all about?” And, there were many who still could not believe it when they were told that the procession was a celebration of the free primary education scheme for which the Action Group government had been campaigning, for over three years, and for which children all over the Western Region were to start registration on that very day.
On July 5, 1954, a procession of about three thousand people, led by regional ministers of state and attended by four orchestras – I. K. Dairo’s Orchestra, Ibadan String Circle Orchestra, Central Temple’s Orchestra and Ayandola Tijani Apola Band, was on the march from the British Council area of Dugbe in Ibadan towards Mapo Radio Square at the other end of the city.