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For the first time in my life, I heard that some Americans were killed and the Capitol vandalised by a mob because of a presidential election. It was the kind of stories we hear from countries in Africa, Asia and South America. What changed? Nothing changed in the American system. The only thing that changed was that a man called Donald John Trump was elected president of the United States in 2016 and contested the 2020 election as the incumbent and lost. The electoral crisis that the US is facing today was not caused during the 2020 election. The seed…

Arsenal midfielder Mesut Ozil has revealed that former Nigerian international, Austin Jay-Jay Ockoha, was his childhood idol while growing up. Ozil made the disclosure during Monday’s Q&A session with his followers on Twitter. Born in Germany to a Turkish family, Ozil revealed he only supported one Turkish club as a child, which was Fenerbahce. Ozil is rumoured to join Fenerbahce in this window from Arsenal after been frozen out of the club. Despite being out of favour at Arsenal, the former Germany international insists that he loves the North London club. When asked if he has an only option of…

The Federal University of Agriculture, Abeokuta, (FUNAAB), has said that it would resume academic activities on Jan. 18, in compliance with the directives of the Federal Government. The Vice-Chancellor, Prof. Felix Salako, made this known while addressing a press conference on Tuesday, in Abeokuta, after the ASUU Chairman in the institution, Dr Adebayo Oni, had said the university was not ready to cope with the challenges posed by COVID-19. Oni had earlier said in an interview that conducting physical lectures with students would be disastrous, but Salako maintained that the university was quite ready to resume full activities as measures…

Quite frankly, Nigeria is in short supply of leaders who demonstrate that public office is basically an avenue for selfless service to humanity. The country is lacking in public officials who seek only things that have direct bearings on the welfare and security of the people, through good governance. There is an acute dearth of minds and hearts that support the ideology that true leadership is about serving others. The great leader of the black race unfortunately, is bereft of great humanists who do not see whatever differences in tongue, culture, class, religion and political inclinations as challenges, but rather,…

Chairmen the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the Southwest zone have advised former Governor of Osun State, Olagunsoye Oyinlola, who heads the party’s Reconciliation Committee in the region to quit. They insisted that it was important for Oyinlola to leave and pave way for the setting up of a proper committee that would resolve the crisis in the zone. In a statement issued yesterday, Chairman of the Southwest PDP leaders, Dr. Sikirulai Ogundele described the Oyinlola’s committee as being factional, adding that a legitimate executive of the Zonal Caretaker Committee in the zone had not been inaugurated. By virtue of…

Those pushing the narrative still think demonising Amotekun will score for them political points. In their fancy, they are already drawing a link between the Amotekun and the fabled SARS, which some youths rose up against last year. They are wrong and totally miscalculating because it is a faulty narrative. Weaponising ethnicity with a view to destroying Amotekun will meet with a solid brickwall and it will also not work. And because they failed in their bid to stop the launch of Amotekun, they have now resorted to twisting facts and creating their own bubble of alternative and fictional reality.…

Nigeria is seeing record numbers of people testing positive for coronavirus, with about 10,000 positive tests reported in the last seven days. One in every six persons (16 percent) tested for COVID-19 in Nigeria in the past two weeks tested positive for the virus, indicating how far the virus has spread. As expected, the spike in infections is also leading to fatalities. In the past 23 days, there have been 146 fatalities as a result of COVID-19 complications in Nigeria. These are alarming findings. In short term, Nigeria has been subsumed by the second wave of coronavirus infections and deaths.…

• ‘Very far, we don’t have the investments’ • It’s mirage to expect local vaccines now, says Akintayo • We’re making tremendous progress, says Okeakpu Many, including the leadership of the Nigeria Governors’ Forum (NGF), have wished that Nigeria could begin production of vaccines and stop depending wholly on imports. At his last visit to the Presidency, where he pledged that governors would be publicly administered the COVID-19 vaccine whenever it arrived, the Ekiti State Governor, Kayode Fayemi, rued the idea of waiting to be served by other countries and wondered why it was taking the country long to perfect…

A leading coalition, Alliance for the Survival of COVID-19 and Beyond (ASCAB), led by a human rights lawyer and Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN), Mr. Femi Falana, has held the federal and state governments responsible for the rise in COVID-19 in the country. Last week, Nigeria recorded more than 1,500 new cases amidst fears of shortages in oxygen and spilling over of the few isolation centres in Africa’s most populous country. In a statement issued yesterday, ASCAB faulted government’s lukewarm attitude to the rising tide of the global plague warning that the country faces more deaths unless radical steps are…

Secret police allege plot to incite crisis in Kano, Rivers, Lagos, others PANDEF cautions against unnecessary alarm The Arewa Consultative Forum (ACF), Afenifere and the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) have urged the Department of State Services (DSS) to go after those it alleged were plotting to incite religious violence in some states. The Nigerian Supreme Council for Islamic Affairs (NSCIA) also condemned the alleged plot, stressing that it has always been in the forefront of the advocacy for peaceful coexistence among Nigerians, especially Christians and Muslims. However, the Pan Niger Delta Forum (PANDEF) accused the DSS of raising unnecessary…