The possibility of wild polio virus resurfacing exists, if necessary actions to curtail it are not followed across the country, the United Nations Children Fund (UNICEF) has said. UNICEF Communication for Development Specialist, Elizabeth Onitolo in her presentation, “Polio Key Messages Post Certification”, said, there was possibility for polio disease to resurface in Nigeria after […]
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Published 25 February 2021
If, by now, Islamic cleric, Sheik Abubakar Gumi, has not categorically denied he told the Muslim bandits he has been meeting in recent times that their enemies are Christian “outsiders,” it means he said what he said, and he is not taking it back. Gumi has been garrulous since he gave himself the job of negotiating with domestic terrorists supposedly on behalf of the country. He has even blamed Niger Delta militants for teaching Fulani herdsmen the criminality with which they are ravaging the whole country. Gumi is acting blind, and that is not because he is deformed. He wants to justify using a walking stick and then poke everyone’s eyes with it. His pronouncements give him away, not as someone looking for peace for Nigeria but merely pandering to an emerging power base in his neck of woods. Power has changed hands in northern Nigeria, and the formerly respected voices like Gumi can no longer find a relevance commensurate
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February 17, 2021
The former Deputy National Publicity Secretary of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Yekini Nabena, has described the Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed, as a total failure in the administration of President Muhammadu Buhari.
Nabena was reacting to a statement by the Minister calling him an “impostor”.
Mohammed had also said he would not dignify Nabena with a response over his comment on the APC registration and revalidation in Kwara State.
The Minister, who hails from Kwara, had demanded the immediate cancellation of the ongoing membership registration and validation in Kwara for non-compliance with the guidelines and regulations laid down by the party.