By Farooq A. KperogiTwitter: @farooqkperogi ASUU is getting ready for another strike. In today’s Saturday Tribune/Peoples Gazette column, I remind Education Minister Adamu Adamu of his previous columns that supported ASUU and urged him to come out of his obscurity and stop the impending strike. I also paid a tribute to Dr. Obadiah Mailafia. Enjoy: […] Read more
By Basil Okoh Gombe State Governor Muhammad Inuwa Yahaya declares that he cannot pay Gombe State workers salaries without the federally shared income from VAT. 35% of Gombe States total earnings come from VAT which is collected nationwide by the Federal Government and 85% distributed to states. 71% of total VAT revenue is collected from […] Read more
By Farooq Kperogi In this ongoing Pantamized fraudfessorial saga, the Federal University of Technology, Owerri, which I’ve chosen to rechristen as the “Fraudsters’ University of Technology Owerri” until it rescinds its fraudulent appointment to Pantami, isn’t getting the deserved censure its fraud invites. In an interview with Saturday Tribune, FUTO’s registrar by the name of […] Read more
By Wole Olaoye (wole.olaoye@gmail.com) So much storm was generated by the defection of Femi Fani-Kayode from the PDP to the APC, a defection which came to public focus on the day some Nigerian soldiers were killed in Monguno, Borno State (with several others missing) after an ambush by militants from the Islamic State-backed faction of […] Read more
By Dr. Wumi Akintide. Republicans are going to pay a heavy price for their opposition to John Lewis Voters’ Right and their opposition to the Vaccine Mandate and the Climate Change and the Infrastructure Legislations pending in Congress and all of which are very popular with American voters across the board. It is unconscionable and […] Read more
Dr. Wumi Akintide Are Yoruba Traditional Rulers saying that secession is a “no go area” even if the current Federal Government headed by General Buhari import Fulanis from all over West Africa to take over all of our territories in the South just like they once did to Ilorin? Are they supporting fundamental restructure of […] Read more
Dare Babarinsa One announcement that has raised more than a few eye brows and even bewilderment is the news of a naval base in Kano, the ancient centrepot of the Trans-Saharan Trade. Kano is a great city. For several centuries, it was the centre of Hausa civilization and the epicenter of Islamic scholarship. In the […] Read more
MaTaZ ArIsInG (We must deliberately remain vigilant) 1. Gombe government begs Southern States to reconsider stance on VAT and be their Brothers keeper. 2. FIRS begs NASS to pass a bill setting up a Federal Revenue Court and putting VAT under exclusive legislative lists. 3. NASS begs INEC to reject electronic transmission of results. 4. […] Read more
By Chris Adetayo MaTaZ ArIsInG A few weeks before he was removed from office, the then Emir of Kano, Muhammadu Sanusi, warned leaders in the North that if they do not change their policies and ways so that the region can begin to harness its huge resources, the day will come when their southern counterparts […] Read more
By Ayo DADA With all the braggadocio, the muscle flexing, the born to rule, Nigeria belongs to us mentality of the northern elites and their politicians, it is becoming clearer by the day why the north is against restructuring of the country Nigeria, they perhaps believe that the north cannot survive without southern Nigeria. This […] Read more
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