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Transparency Int’l Gets 72hrs Ultimatum To Leave Nigeria

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A human right group under the the aegis of Save Humanity Advocacy Centre has given the Transparency International 72 hours to leave the country over its recent report of corruption in the defence sector of Nigeria. According to a recent report jointly presented by the Executive Director of CISLAC, Auwal Musa Rafsanjani and a Senior Legal Researcher at TI, Eva Marie Anderson, “Nigeria’s corrupt elites have profited from conflict; with oil prices at a record low, defence has provided new and lucrative opportunities for the country’s corrupt kleptocrats.” Comrade Ibrahim…

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Dentsu Aegis Network Signs Affiliation Agreement With Outori Limited

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One of the leading global advertising networks, Dentsu Aegis Network has strengthened its footprint in West Africa with the signing of Outori, one of Nigeria’s leading Brand and Marketing Communications Agencies, as its affiliate consumer experience agency in the market. Dentsu Aegis Network Sub Saharan Africa (SSA) is part of the global media group that specialises in media, digital and creative communications and spans over Southern Africa, Nigeria, Ghana, Kenya and Tanzania with both owned businesses and affiliates and affiliate partnerships in another 32 markets across SSA. Outori is one…

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Understanding AI, TI Conspiracy Against Multicultural, Multiethnic Nigeria

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By Idoko Ainoko A common thread runs through the world empires that rose to their prime and later collapsed, military decline. Not taken in isolation and not a sole factor, military decline or a gradual degradation and subsequent destruction of the military of these civilizations spelt their doom. In modern times foreign powers that are interested in destroying a targeted country simply set out about destroying its army and the collapse of other vital institutions and the country becomes a matter of domino effect. This process have been perfected to…

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Democracy Day: Emmanuel Udom Tops 10 Best Performing Governors

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As the countdown begins ahead of May 29, 2017 Democracy Day, the Akwa Ibom State Governor Emmanuel Udom, has topped the list of 10 best performing governors as the nation marks 18 years of uninterrupted democratic rule. This was contained in a statement signed by the National Coordinator, Concerned Nigerian Youth Development Organisation (CYNDO), Comrade Joel Edegba, yesterday. According to Edegba the organisation focuses on good governance assessment and rating, which the report was independently based on and used various parameters on programmes and projects implementation. Other state governors that…

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Oil and Gas: Stakeholders Seek Infrastructure Deficit Map

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The Petroleum  Technology  Association  of  Nigeria  (PETAN) has advised that an infrastructure  Deficit  Map  be create as the county looks forward to attracting investment in the oil and gas sector to  show  areas and opportunities available  for  investment. The call was part of the resolutions contained in a communique issued at the end of the Offshore Technology Conference (OTC) 2017 held recently in Texas, USA by PETAN, signed and made available to LEADERSHIP by its Chairman, Bank-Anthony Okoroafor. The communique noted that with a graphic infrastructure Deficit map in place,…

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Gateway Trade Fair: OGUNCCIMA Lauds Dangote Group’s Collaboration

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…As Group’s subsidiaries offer products at subsidised prices The Ogun State Chamber of Commerce, Industry, Mines and Agriculture (OGUNCCIMA) has commended the Pan African Conglomerate, Dangote Group (www.Dangote.com) for its giant strides in economic development of the country through massive investments in several sectors of the economy describing the feat as worthy of emulation by other Nigerians. President of OGUNCCIMA, Mrs. Adesola Adebutu who made this commendation at the opening ceremony of the 8th Gateway Trade Fair holding in Abeokuta Ogun state said the support given enough by the Dangote…

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Boko Haram: Of Sugar Coated Lies And Poisonous Potions

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By Anthony Kolawole The most dangerous level of lying is when the liar becomes addicted to manipulating the truth to an extent that he begins to believe his own lies as the truth. According to Vladimir Lenin, “A lie told often enough becomes the truth.” Therein lies the danger to the society because history is forever distorted when such lies, presented as truth, go unchallenged as the future generations would read perverted accounts of events and would be non the wiser for it. It is this concept that convener of…

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Patriotism Of The Nigeria Military ‎

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By Prince Ugo A recent research by a UK risk analysis firm, Maplecroft published by CNN. showed that growing levels of conflict, terrorism, and the toppling of regimes in the Middle East and North Africa, as well as political violence in East Africa, are driving a rise in political instability not only in those sun continents, but worldwide. ‎ The report showed that since 2010, one in ten of the countries surveyed have experienced a significant increase in the level of short-term political risk which ‎ includes “governments asserting control…

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RRS Rescues Boys Fleeing Abuja, Reunites Them With Parents

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The operatives of Rapid Response Squad of the Lagos State Police Command on Monday last week rescued two teenagers fleeing the Abuja abodes of their parents and re-united them with the parents on Friday. The teenagers, Chidubem Amaechi, 13 and Chinedu Onyebuchi, 13 were rescued by the RRS operatives of Monday morning after alighting from an Abuja bus at Ojodu Berger, Lagos. The teenagers were sighted by the officers wandering around Ojodu – Berger before they were invited for questioning. The children had lied to the officers during interrogations that…

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Beware Of Wike, Rivers Group Tells Jonathan

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… says he has penchant for betrayal A socio-political pressure group, The  Rivers-Ijaw Mandate Forum (RMF) has asked Governor Nyesom Wike ‎to leave his Bayelsa State counterpart, Seriake Dickson alone‎ and concentrate on governance and resolve the self-inflicted insecurity in the oil rich state. According to the group, Wike has for long been surreptitiously attacking Dickson even when the latter has done nothing to warra‎nt it, stressing that if he uses the same energy and resources he is wasting to engage in needless political battles on addressing the critical needs…

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