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By Olalekan Badmus (Phoenix) ‘Inferiority’ is a complex that affects its victim’s mentality and destroy their emotions. A psychologist, Dr. Michael Brustein opined that “people who feel inferior and have low self-esteem” often fall into the habit of projecting their own feelings of not being good enough onto others. For several years, the people of […]
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By Sola Isola Niger, a large and arid country in West Africa has a history of coups and attempted coups since its independence from France in 1960. In 1974, Lieutenant Colonel Seyni Kountche leads a military coup, ending Hamani Diori’s 14-year rule, suspending the constitution and dissolving the parliament. Kountche forms the Supreme Military Council […]
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In these parts, public office comes with boisterous carnivals, elevated expectations, thrills, and frills. The exigency, delicacy and sensitivity of this office is sometimes lost in bouts of revelries and in the pursuit of temporal nothings. It is an office where a few have made a good name for themselves; it is also a station […]
Continue ReadingBy Stephen Gyang After massive appeals from far and near, Mallam Olawale Rasheed was practically forced not to respond to Ismail Omipidan again due to the clear and wide gap that exists between the Spokesperson to the Osun state Governor and the failed media handler of Mr Oyetola. I will dwell on specific areas of […]
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By Mallam Olawale Rasheed When a writer described a popular performing state Governor as a clown, what claim has such a person to complain about abusive words? In enlightened discourse, it is morally right to respect our leaders irrespective of political affiliations. When Ismail persisted in his abusive write ups against the person of the […]
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By Mallam Olawale Rasheed In Africa, losing elections can cause depression and psychological disorders. Such sense of loss arising from rejection by the people at times transforms otherwise cultured individuals into deranged activists attempting to assess relevance using the same deceitful tactics that initially accounted for their principal being booted out of office. Or how […]
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By Sola Isola Myles Munroe, the world renown Bahamian Evangelist once said, “when the purpose of a thing is unknown, abuse is inevitable”. This is the only conclusion I came to when I saw the release by Prof Ishaq Akintola of Muslim Rights Concern (MURIC) accusing the Osun state Governor, Senator Ademola Adeleke of favouring […]
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By Adewale Taofeek Recognizing the readiness and professionalism of the Ministry of works headed by the Permanent Secretary Engr. Bashir Idowu Bello in the ongoing road construction across osun state. As the administration of Governor Ademola Adeleke approaches its seventh month, one sector that has greatly been transformed across the state is road infrastructure. During […]
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By Sarafa Ibrahim On the day of his inauguration, Governor Ademola Adeleke made some chilling promises. Recognizing the deplorable conditions of public infrastructure in the state, Governor Adeleke declared that it will “no longer going to be business as usual. And I repeat, it is no longer business as usual.” It was daring, just as […]
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Globally, subsidies, whether for food, transportation, energy or housing, are part of good governance. So, the issue is not subsidies but who benefit from them. In Nigeria, subsidies are primarily of the rich, by the rich and for the rich. I will highlight a few, how they are being manipulated and how huge sums of […]
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