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TEXT OF SPEECH BY PASTOR ‘TUNDE BAKARE AT THE STATE OF THE NATION BROADCAST ON EASTER SUNDAY, APRIL 20, 2025. VENUE: THE CITADEL GLOBAL COMMUNITY CHURCH (CGCC), 30 KUDIRAT ABIOLA WAY, OREGUN, IKEJA, LAGOS, NIGERIA. THEME: “LET THE PEOPLE KNOW THE TRUTH AND THE COUNTRY IS SAFE.” ― ABRAHAM LINCOLN Protocols. Introduction Fellow citizens, It […]
Continue ReadingMR. PRESIDENT: PLEASE BRING US DOWN FROM THIS CROSSBishop Matthew Hassan Kukah, Catholic Diocese of SokotoEaster Message 20251: A very happy Easter to you and millions of our countrymen and women. For us Christians, this is the most important event in the history of our faith. It is the season of the Cross, the season […]
Continue ReadingLast week, in response to mounting, difficult-to-controvert, empirically impregnable accusations that President Bola Ahmed Tinubu disproportionately favors his Yoruba ethnic group in consequential federal appointments, the presidency circulated a list of Tinubu’s appointments to countermine the firmly fixed national narrative of Tinubu’s unexampled ethnocentrism but was compelled to withdraw it because it was embarrassingly error-ridden and […]
Continue ReadingI heartily felicitate Christians in Nigeria and worldwide as they commemorate Easter, the celebration of Jesus Christ’s crucifixion and resurrection—the cornerstone of the Christian faith. The Holy Week, which spans Palm Sunday through Holy Thursday and Good Friday and culminates in Easter Sunday, calls us to reflect deeply on the enduring values of sacrifice, redemption, […]
Continue ReadingUnited States District Court sitting in Columbia has ordered the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) to release records relating to the criminal investigation of President Bola Tinubu over alleged drug trafficking. Judge Beryl Howell, in a ruling dated April 8, which can be found on the court’s website, directed […]
Continue ReadingAnytime people complain to my hearing about the lopsided high-level appointments made so far by President Bola Tinubu, I am tempted to gloat and proclaim: “Told you so!” I have never hidden my bias for the reflection of federal character, or equity, in appointments, employments and projects. My simple argument for decades has been that […]
Continue ReadingDirector-General (DG) of the Institute of Law Research and Development of the United Nations (ILAWDUN), US, Cyprian Edward-Ekpo, has asked President Bola Tinubu to reverse the state of emergency imposed in Rivers State. The professor of international environmental law warned that the emergency rule in the south-south state is a threat to Nigeria’s democracy and international reputation. […]
Continue ReadingPresident Bola Tinubu’s Senior Special Assistant on Social Media by the name of Dada Olusegun reportedly said on Thursday that had Nigerians elected former Vice President Atiku Abubakar as president, they would have been sweltering in the same snake pit of torment and economic decline as Argentinians are. Olusegun’s comment was informed by Atiku’s previous […]
Continue ReadingPresident Bola Tinubu has approved a sweeping reconstitution of the Nigerian National Petroleum Company (NNPC) Limited board, removing the Chairman, Chief Pius Akinyelure and the Group Chief Executive Officer, Mallam Mele Kolo Kyari. According to a release issued in the early hours of this morning by presidential spokesperson, Bayo Onanuga, the President also removed all […]
Continue ReadingPublisher and CEO of Ovation international magazine, politician and member of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Dele Momodu, has condemned President Bola Tinubu’s declaration of a state of emergency in Rivers State, calling it “anti-democratic.” Speaking on Channels Television’s The Morning Brief on Monday, Momodu said, suspending Governor Siminalayi Fubara, Deputy Governor Ngozi Odu, and […]
Continue ReadingGhanaian president, John Mahama, in his first official visit to Nigeria since his inauguration on January 7, 2025, has explained to journalists why he visited President Bola Tinubu on Thursday at the State House, Abuja. Mahama said he was in Nigeria to thank Tinubu for honouring him with his presence during his swearing in, and […]
Continue ReadingDuring an interview on Channels TV on Monday, Professor Wole Soyinka responded to critics who have been taunting him to “say something” about the present administration. In the interview, he said, “People should stop trying to work on my timetable for me. I had not swallowed an alarm clock. I don’t see why I should […]
Continue Reading“Everything is my business. Everything. Anything I say is law…literally law.” Barbara Geddes, et al in their How dictatorship works (2018) quoted Malawian dictator, Hastings Kamuzu Banda, as having once said the above. In Nigeria of a little more than a week ago, they all came in quick successions: A National Assembly where the libido ran riot; a son […]
Continue ReadingPeoples Democratic Party (PDP) governors have filed a suit at the Supreme Court challenging President Bola Tinubu’s declaration of a state of emergency in Rivers State. President Tinubu had, on March 18, declared the emergency rule in Rivers State, citing Section 305(5) of the 1999 Constitution of Nigeria (as amended), and suspended Governor Siminalayi Fubara, […]
Continue ReadingPresident Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s demonstrably unconstitutional suspension of the elected leaders of Rivers State and his illegal imposition of a retired military lickspittle as sole administrator in the exercise of his otherwise constitutional privilege to declare a state of emergency in any part of the country is the latest addition in a long list of […]
Continue ReadingNigeria’s House of Representatives has voted in support of the declaration of a state of emergency rule in Rivers State, Nigeria. President Bola Tinubu on Tuesday declared a state of emergency in Rivers and suspended Governor Siminalayi Fubara, his deputy Prof. Ngozi Odu, and members of the Rivers State House of Assembly for six months […]
Continue ReadingPress statement by suspended Governor Siminalayi Fubara on the state of emergency declared in Rivers State: My dear Rivers People, I address you today with a deep sense of responsibility and calm, as we navigate this unfortunate moment in our state’s political history. Since assuming office as your Governor, all my actions and decisions have […]
Continue ReadingTEXT OF THE BROADCAST BY PRESIDENT BOLA AHMED TINUBU, COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF OF THE ARMED FORCES, DECLARING STATE OF EMERGENCY IN RIVERS STATE ON TUESDAY 18 MARCH 2025 Fellow Nigerians, I feel greatly disturbed at the turn we have come to regarding the political crisis in Rivers State. Like many of you, I have watched with concern […]
Continue ReadingNigeria’s National Youth Service Corps authorities have remained silent over the allegation of threats levelled against it by a Lagos-based female corper, Ushie Uguamaye, also known as Raye, for criticising President Bola Tinubu and his government. In a now-viral video shared on her TikTok account, “talktoraye,” on Saturday, Uguamaye had expressed frustration over Nigeria’s worsening […]
Continue ReadingAmong the shiny new universities President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has established is the Federal University of Agriculture and Development Studies in Iragbiji, Osun State. Now, Iragbiji, as legend has it, is Tinubu’s birthplace, which he has spent decades treating like a dark family secret. Could this be his way of finally coming out of the […]
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