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₦10tn Budget Will Not Achieve Much, Agbakoba Tells Buhari

₦10tn Budget Will Not Achieve Much, Agbakoba Tells Buhari

October 11, 2019 4:18 am

Former President of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA), Dr. Olisa Agbakoba, has said the ₦10 trillion budget presented to the National Assembly by President Muhammadu Buhari will not take Nigerians out of poverty.

He also advised the federal government to consider legislation on criminal immunity to Nigerians who have plundered the country, as this will lead to a massive inflow of Nigeria’s money in foreign banks.

In a statement made available to newsmen yesterday, Agbakoba, who commended President Buhari for laying the budget estimates in good time, said the country cannot have an anemic budget of ₦10 trillion for 200 …

Embracing The Full Benefits Of Compulsory Insurance

Embracing The Full Benefits Of Compulsory Insurance

October 10, 2019 6:42 am

Nigerian insurance experts have raised the alarm over an estimated ₦1 trillion annual loss in the industry due to low insurance penetration and policy uptake by the citizens.

Worried about this development, stakeholders have called on the National Insurance Commission (NAICOM) to enlist the services of law enforcement agencies to achieve effective implementation of the compulsory insurance policies in Nigeria to further deepen insurance acceptance and equally grow the nation’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP).

Those who commented on the low insurance penetration noted that aside involving law enforcement agents to drive and recover the N1 trillion yearly loss in the …

Danger: Nigeria Is Sitting On A Keg Of Gun Powder Part 2

Danger: Nigeria Is Sitting On A Keg Of Gun Powder Part 2

October 9, 2019 11:19 pm

By: Odumodu Gbulagu

Buhari’s coming to power brought unnecessary hardship and untold terror to the citizens of Nigeria. He stifled freedom of speech, stopped obeying court orders, jailed journalists, yet people praised him and said Nigeria needs a dictator and not a democrat.

Now that he has won and Next level has fully commenced, things have taken a different turn. Some of the people that helped him to power are now in detention. He closed the Southern border and left open the Northern side

Theophilus Danjuma, Nigeria Former Minister of Defence and a retired Army General asked Nigerians to defend …

Danger: Nigeria Is Sitting On A Keg Of Gun Powder Part 1

Danger: Nigeria Is Sitting On A Keg Of Gun Powder Part 1

October 9, 2019 11:21 am

By: Odumodu Gbulagu

Nigeria, as Buhari left it today, can be said to be literally sitting on a keg of gun powder awaiting explosion. Nigerians have been pushed to the wall for a very long time, and they have gotten to their elastic limit. Nigeria is a nation that is not at war but has seen more killings than Syria that is in full-blown war.

Failure of governance, bad economy, hunger and brutal killings are an integral part of the problem.

It all started when the fake Buhari told Nigerians in an interview that he wasn’t going to treat …

The Flaws In Our Educational System; Whose Fault?

The Flaws In Our Educational System; Whose Fault?

October 9, 2019 2:28 am

By: Onyeka Chiemelie

So many intellectuals in the past have tried to analyse the flaws in our educational system, trying to pinpoint exactly with whom and where the problem lies. From a personal point of view, I think the system should take more of the blames that the innocent students who are more like the victims of the circumstance.

I have come to understand what people meant when they say the youths of this generation especially in Nigeria are not ready to take over the onus of control and influence in this nation. When we look at certain issues.…

Lagos State Is Dying, And Decaying; Where Is Sanwo-Olu?

Lagos State Is Dying And Decaying; Where Is Sanwo-Olu?

October 5, 2019 2:30 pm

By Ugoji Egbujo

Lagos is breaking.

It’s being crushed by the weight of a silent mass influx of the young, hungry and jobless. The country has few cities. Many of them are troubled. Lagos has a mythical reputation. They say it’s the city where magic can happen. Abuja is too organized. Lagos is where the transition from oblivion to heaven isn’t just only possible but can happen in a jiffy. But that’s not all. Lagos is perhaps the place where there is no shame. People are therefore getting fed up and leaving their ponds for the big river. And …

Ten Practical Ways To Manage An Angry Partner/Spouse

Ten Practical Ways To Manage An Angry Partner/Spouse

October 5, 2019 3:41 am

For months, Kunle Olaiya (not real name) couldn’t forgive his wife. Their marriage has yet to clock two years. One evening in late 2018 after a disagreement, Olaiya’s wife picked a machete from the kitchen store, headed to the garage and smashed his car’s windscreen.

According to Olaiya, who lives in the Lekki area of Lagos, his offence was that he was having extramarital affairs with one of his female colleagues at work. His wife had accessed his phone and seen a series of photographs he took with the female colleague. She confronted him with the accusation of infidelity, which …

Jesus Is Not Real, His Story Was a Hoax - Bible Scholar

Jesus Is Not Real, His Story Was A Hoax – Bible Scholar

October 4, 2019 6:26 pm

The man and story behind Jesus Christ was a Roman hoax designed to control the people, a bible scholar has sensationally claimed.

Christianity is a baseless religion that was designed by the Roman empire to justify slavery and pacify the citizens, according to controversial Biblical scholar Joseph Atwill.

In a blog on his website, Mr. Atwill wrote: “Christianity may be considered a religion, but it was actually developed and used as a system of mind control to produce slaves that believed God decreed their slavery.”

The scholar argues that at the time, Jewish sects in Palestine were awaiting a ‘warrior …

Popularity Is A Mirage - Onyeka Chiemelie

Popularity Is A Mirage; Insignificant – Onyeka Chiemelie

October 2, 2019 2:42 pm

At some point in my teenage years, I chased popularity like a  big-time whore. I chased it like a man wooing a deaf, prideful woman. It will precipitate some awkward lifestyle and decision that will alter drastically any meaningful progress.

Popularity would lead to unfettered “ass-kicking” and pandering to others who are perceived to be in that clique you intend to gain recognition into. It would also lead to subtle arrogance as you get noticed with time “only in your head” actually.
The obnoxious behaviors attendant with arrogance and pride will like a very bad odour seep through the
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Obiano Is Perfecting Plans To Sell Agulu Lake Hotel

Obiano Is Perfecting Plans To Sell Off Agulu Lake Hotel

October 2, 2019 4:07 am

Odumodu Gbulagu writes on the governor’s perceived agenda to sell off the state-owned Agulu Lake Hotel to himself through a dubiously presented front.

When I reported the approval by Anambra state Executive council (EXCO) for Gov. Willie Obiano to sell Agulu Lake Hotel (to be sold to his front) and mass production of a magazine by Mr. Mark Okoye denying the huge bequeathal to Obiano – 75 billion Naira; some people doubted the credibility and authenticity of my message.

Right now, Agulu people are adequately informed. In fact, they had already held a meeting on what to do in order …

Who Is The ‘god’ Of The African Man – Onyeka Chiemelie

September 27, 2019 4:36 am

The human mind is very powerful when left to wander far and wide without restrictions, without direction.

A critical, analytical mindset is a dangerous thing to lose because this is what births all forms of creativity and inventions.
The mind would wander earlier today as I sat on my bed with legs crossed and eyes affixed to a vantage point deeply thinking on the sophisticated creations of man in advancing healthcare through the advent of medicine and drugs, the inter-ballistic missiles and weaponry to promulgate and enhance warfare, the hybrid communication gadgets and the sophisticated technologies.
You cannot take it
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Willie Is Taking Us Back To Egypt – Ndi Anambra

September 27, 2019 3:02 am

There is this age long maxim that says ‘Success without a successor is failure in disguise’. Today, this wise saying is being made manifest in Anambra state as the good people of the state have continued to bemoan what they refer to as unfortunate taking back to Egypt by this current Administration.

Recall that the immediate past governor of the state, Mr. Peter Gregory Obi recorded tremendous success in almost all facets of development within his eight years tenure. Obi in his days employed and appointed the finest of technocrats to work with, and together they formulated the developmental blueprint …

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