President Buhari should use his forthcoming address before the United Nations General Assembly to establish himself as a global statesman by outlining the conditions under which the international community will recognise the Taliban government

Ayo Akinfe

[1] Within six months, the Taliban must organise free and fair United Nations-supervised elections. They need to get a mandate to govern Afghanistan

[2] The Taliban must submit to general elections every four years. Nobody has the right to rule a people without the permission of the populace

[3] The Taliban must leave women’s rights intact across Afghanistan. To buttress this point, at least a third of its cabinet must be female

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Up to 7,000 nurses leave Nigeria each year in search of greener pastures according to official data

AS many as 7,000 professional Nigerian nurses leave the country each year for greener pastures according to information just published by the Nursing and Midwifery Council of Nigeria.

 

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Twitter ban estimated to have cost Nigeria $360m over the 100 days since it has been in effect

NIGERIA is believed to have lost a total of $360m in economic revenue from the suspension of the social media platform Twitter over the 100 days that embargo has been in place according to a group of social enterprises.

 

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Bandits burn down country home of speaker of Zamfara State House of Assembly

ARMED hoodlums have attacked the country home of the speaker of the Zamfara State House of Assembly in Zurmi Local Government Area and burnt it to the ground in response to the recent military operations against them.

 

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Nigerian Indigenous Nationalities Alliance for Self-Determination to hold million man march in New York

NIGERIAN self-determination groups have finalised plans to hold a million man march in New York later this month to coincide with the holding of the United Nations General Assembly Session between September 14 and 24.

 

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Security fears raised after two Sudanese airlines given permission to fly into Kano airport

AVIATION industry watchers have expressed fear over the recent clearance the Nigerian government has given to two Sudanese airlines who have just been given landing rights at the Aminu Kano International Airport.

 

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Were I in President Buhari’s shoes, my 61st anniversary present to Nigeria would be to put a 10-man economic emergency team together

Ayo Akinfe

Its members would be:

[1] Yemi Osinbajo - Chair

[2] Zainab Ahmed - Vice chair

[3] Lamido Sanusi

[4] Charles Soludo

[5] Kingsley Moghalu

[6] Pat Utomi

[7] Arunma Oteh

[8] Yewande Sadiku

[9] Godwin Emefiele

[10] Adeniyi Adebayo

Its mandate would be simple:

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Zamfara bandits attack military outpost killing 12 personnel and carting away weapons

NIGERIAN security forces a major setback over the weekend after a bunch of armed hoodlums attacked a military base in Zamfara State killing nine air force and one army personnel during a brutal assault.

 

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Chief of army staff lays down the gauntlet to his commanders saying insecurity must end now

NIGERIA'S ongoing security challenges may finally start getting addressed after the new chief of army staff Lt General Faruk Yahaya directed all his formation commanders to ensure the tempo of all their operations across the country is sustained and maintained.

 

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Nigeria is going nowhere until we eschew our owambe culture in favour of the European style practice of investing disposable income in cooperative societies


Ayo Akinfe 

[1] I get terribly exasperated when I hear Nigerians constantly go on about bad government, with no mention of the masses. It is the people that make a nation and governments are only a reflection of the citizenry 

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