Monthly Archives: October 2020

Nigeria’s Imbalance Producing Sorrow, Poverty – Danjuma, Others Lament

The National Christian Elders Forum, being piloted by a former Minister of Defence, Gen. Theophilus Danjuma (retd.), and other statesmen, has demanded that Nigeria should be renegotiated. The NCEF also said the #EndSARS protests in the country was mismanaged by the regime of President Muhammadu Buhari because the army was released against unarmed protesters in the country. While demanding that whoever authorised ...

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Trump v Biden: A Duel Of Contrasting Masculinities

David Collinson, Lancaster University and Jeff Hearn, University of Huddersfield The second and last US presidential debate between Donald Trump and Joe Biden was another round in a duel between two very distinct forms of masculinity. An excellent moderator, Kristen Welker, combined with rule changes that reduced the candidates’ ability to interrupt each other, toned down the vitriol and helped ...

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#EndSARS: How Nigeria Can Tap Into Its Youthful Population

Young Nigerians display placards in support of the ongoing protests against police brutality. Olukayode Jaiyeola/NurPhoto via Getty Images Funke Fayehun, University of Ibadan and Uche Isiugo-Abanihe, University of Ibadan Protests in Nigeria against police brutality and specifically the Special Anti Robbery Squad, a police unit accused of human rights abuses, have mostly been by young Nigerians, aged 30 and below. ...

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Allegations Against Me Make No Sense, They’re Terrible Lies — Tinubu

Former Lagos governor and National Leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, has condemned what he called excessive use of force on peaceful protesters in Lekki Lagos on October 20. In a statement titled: “The #EndSARS protest: A fundamental lesson in democratic governance”, he also dismissed claims that he ordered the shooting just as he denied ...

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Carrying Of Oba’s Staff Of Office Insulting, Says Lagos Chief, Babatunde Olorogun-Etti

Lagos Chief, Babatunde Olorogun-Etti, on Sunday described the attack of the palace of the Oba of Lagos by miscreants and hoodlums as insulting, callous and barbaric.  ‘’The carrying of the Staff of Office, the visible symbol of the Lagos throne is a taboo’’. He also blamed some parents in the country for not bringing up their children in accordance with ...

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EndSARS: Nigeria Not For Few Individuals — Bishop Ezeokafor

Raymond Ozoji, Awka The Catholic bishop of Awka Diocese, His Lordship Most Rev. Paulinus Ezeokafor, has called on protesting Nigerian Youths to protest with their brains and heads intact, urging them not be confrontational, violent or mischievous about it. Bishop Ezeokafor, who stated this at St. Patrick’s Catholic Cathedral Awka on Sunday,  agreed the protesters had rights to protest and ...

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Avoid Brute Force In Handling Demands Of Nigerian Youths, Ezeemo Admonishes Buhari

Raymond Ozoji, Awka Mr Godwin Ezeemo, Anambra based industrialist and chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP)  has appealed to the government to apply maximum expertise to handle the  current social impasse being experienced in the country. He said that the current expression of Nigerian youths called for greater attention by governments through application of skills to handle critical issues ...

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SERAP Asks ICPC To Probe Alleged Hoarding Of COVID-19 Palliatives In Several States

Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has asked the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) to “promptly, thoroughly, transparently and effectively investigate the circumstances surrounding the alleged hoarding of COVID-19 palliatives in warehouses in several states, which ought to have been distributed to the poorest and most vulnerable people during the lockdown, and to publish the outcome ...

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How Youths Can Realise A New Nigeria — Okwudili

Raymond Ozoji, Awka A concerned Nigerian, Mr Victor Okwudili, has said that he planned to midwife a new platform, the National Youth Congress (NYC), as a political party for youths in Nigeria who are ready to move the country forward. Okwudili, who made the disclosure in a statement in Awka yesterday, said that he believed in a ‘New Nigeria’ that ...

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