By Rachael Fall I read an INCREDIBLE article written in French language on a Sierra Leone-based blog https://regardelinfo.com/2022/12/01/mama-ghana/ about Nana Konadu Agyeman Rawlings. It seemed in the article that her life was ruined by a love affair between Papa Jerry Rawlings and and a lady, Nathalie Yamb. Under the guise of secrecy and because the memory of Jerry Rawlings cannot be desecrated, we are obscuring a part of our national Papa J even though he will remain an icon and symbol of Ghana’s renewal for eternity. If I didn’t learn much from this article, I mostly re-discovered that Jerry Rawlings…
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For his 79th birthday, friends, colleagues, school mates and mentees of Professor Adele Jinadu convened a colloquium in Abuja on 30th November to celebrate his contributions to deepening democracy on the basis of knowledge and praxis of his discipline of political science. The crème de la crème of the community was there including Professors Okwudiba Nnoli, Tunde Adeniran, Attahiru Jega, Anthonia Simbine, Nuhu Yaqub, Kole Shettima and Saliu Hassan. Sam Oyovbaire and Bolaji Akinyemi sent messages of solidarity, while Ameze Guabadia spoke from her standpoint of a law professor and Professor Anthony Asiwaju spoke for historians. Okey Ibeanu and yours…
I am writing this article in pain, great pain, for reasons that have to do with my training and calling as a journalist, my conscience, or my moral sense of differentiating the right from the wrong, and how these values play a guide, in shaping my behaviour as a person. For the avoidance of any ambiguity, and in order to circumvent any misinterpretation on the position from where I am talking, I must make it clear that I am writing in my personal position as a Nigerian, a Human being, and one that believes in the ambition of the rule…
The Conference of Benue Journalists (CBJ) has expressed sadness over the death of a former Minister of Power and Steel in the Second Republic, Dr Paul Unongo. Unongo died at the age 87 on Tuesday. This is contained in statement by Dr Anule Emmanuel, President of CBJ on Thursday in Abuja. He said that Benue and indeed Nigeria has lost a neoteric in the late Unongo. “Unongo who served as minister of Steel Development in the second Republic is a foremost nationalist and a father figure who championed the liberation of ordinary citizens without sentiments. “Benue and indeed Nigeria has…
The Igbajo royal families under the aegis of Onigemo descendant in Boluwaduro local government area of Osun, have expressed support to the state governor, Ademola Adeleke’s reversal of the enthronement of Prince Gboyega Famodun, as the Owa of Igbajo. This is contained in a statement jointly signed by the Onigemo of Igbajo, Chief Gbadebo Bamigboye and other royal princes; Prince Jonathan Bamigboye, Prince Adebayo Makinde and Prince Tunde Dada, on Thursday in Osogbo. Adeleke had on Monday signed an Executive Order suspending the enthronement of the Aree of Iree, the Akirun of Ikirun and the Owa of Igbajo. The suspension would hold pending…
Senate President, Ahmed Lawan, has cautioned Nigerians against vote- trading in 2023 general election. Lawan said this when he received members of an election observation group, Polling Unit Ambassadors of Nigerian (PUAN) on a sensitisation road walk at the National Assembly Complex in Abuja. The Senate President, who was presented with a red flag against vote-buying and selling, called on Nigerians especially youths to shun vote-buying and selling. “I am waving this flag against voter inducement, so I call on all Nigerians especially the Youth to shun vote buying or selling their votes during election. “It gives me the opportunity…
The Nigeria Police Force have cautioned state governors against stopping opposition political parties from holding their electioneering campaigns in their state. Mr Dandaura Mustapha, the Deputy Inspector-General of Police (DIG) Operations, said this at the 2022 political parties’ summit in Abuja. Mustapha, who represented the Inspector-General of Police, Mr Usman Alkali-Baba, said that state commissioners of police had been directed to ensure that all political parties were given free space to campaign in states. He said that the police had received several complains on attacks on political parties in states during campaigns. Mustapha said however, that some governors deserved commendations…
China is softening its tone on the severity of the Coronavirus (COVID-19) and easing some coronavirus restrictions even as its daily case toll hovers near record highs, after anger over the world’s toughest curbs fuelled protests across the country. Several cities in the world’s second-largest economy, while still reporting new infections, are breaking with practice by lifting district lockdowns and allowing businesses to reopen. Health authorities announcing the relaxation of measures did not mention the protests, which ranged from candle-lit vigils in Beijing to clashes with the police on the streets of Guangzhou on Tuesday and at an iPhone factory…
“The results of the 2021 NMIS show a further decline in the national prevalence of malaria to 22 per cent from 23 per cent in 2018, and 42 per cent in 2010″ Nigeria recorded a slight decrease in malaria prevalence, from 23 per cent in 2018 to 22 per cent in 2021, Minister of Health, Dr Osagie Ehanire has said. Enahire made this known at the Official Launch and Dissemination of the National Malaria indicator Survey (NMiS) Report and The National Advocacy Communication and Social Mobilization (ACSM) Strategy and Implementation Guide in Abuja. The National Malaria Elimination Programme (NMEP), organised…
The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has destroyed 24.6 tonnes of illicit drugs and other psychotropic substances seized from drug traffickers in Kwara. The confiscated illicit drugs, equivalent of 24,616.111 kg, were destroyed on Wednesday in Ilorin. The state Governor, AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq commended the NDLEA for the feat and pledged to support it to rid the state and the country of the menace of drug abuse. He said that the NDLEA chairman, Mohammed Marwa and his team have been doing a fantastic job in tackling illicit drug flows and addiction in the country. “We all know the menace of…