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BIZARRE: How youths attacked masquerade in Oyo
*Why we attacked the masquerade — Aggrieved youths By Ola Ajayi In a saner clime where there is strict adherence to cultural values, a masquerade is a sacred ancestral being
Spain poised to legalise euthanasia, assisted suicide
Spain’s parliament will give final approval to a law legalising euthanasia Thursday, becoming one of the few nations to allow terminally-ill or gravely-injured patients to end their own suffering. The
PAP and direct deployment to schools without enabling exams
By J.P. Owoupele IN the last few weeks I have been called by many stakeholders, delegates and beneficiaries of the aforementioned programme. Their worry is that the office demands that all
Delta Police arrest six suspected cultists for murder in Sapele
By Paul Olayemi The Delta State Police Command has arrested six suspected cultists alleged to have shot a man dead on Tuesday night in the Shell road area of Sapele
Cryptocurrency ban: CBN is stifling free enterprise and making Nigeria poorer
By Olu Fasan THE recent crackdown on cryptocurrency transactions by the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, follows a worrying pattern. From the exclusion of importers of 43 listed items from
To defeat insurgency and banditry: Beyond the call for weapons
By Charles Onunaiju SINCE the recent upsurge in the nefarious activities of insurgents, bandits, kidnappers and other assorted range of anti-social felons, the call for more arms and ammunition, including
Abramovich sets sight on Dortmund’s Haaland this summer
Chelsea owner Roman Abramovich is ready to make Borussia Dortmund striker Erling Braut Haaland his primary target this summer. The Norwegian sensation has been heavily linked with a move away
School abductions: Education sector, future of our children under attack — Reps
…lament deplorable infrastructure …say happenings, an embarrassment to Nigeria By Levinus Nwabughiogu-Abuja Continued attacks and abductions of school children especially the female ones have put the education sector and the
Keeping Nigeria’s best brains in the country
WHILE we rejoice at the “good news” of the British Government’s approval of work permits for Nigerian international students who wish to work in Britain after the completion of a
Putting Nigeria together again will be hard
By Ikechukwu Amaechi CAN Nigeria ever be put together again? This is the question that concentrated my mind as I watched the tragi-comedy of the Deputy Speaker of the House
