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Kano records first COVID-19 death

Kano records first COVID-19 death

Four days after it recorded its index case of coronavirus, Kano state has confirmed its first death from the disease. The state ministry of health announced the death in a tweet posted at 11:55pm on Wednesday. Details of the death were not given but the ministry said there were 21 total cases of COVID-19 in…

Revolution in Nigeria: Let’s face reality

Revolution in Nigeria: Let’s face reality

There are many young Nigerians within the country and in the diaspora, who genuinely think that revolution in Nigeria is the only solution to our problems. If their definition of revolution is related to the revolutions that ousted Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak in 2011, Iranian Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi in 1979, or Libyan Colonel Muammar…

Top Nigeria politics forum: Liberating Nigeria

Top Nigeria politics forum: Liberating Nigeria

Originally Published On April 07, 2020 Liberating Nigeria forum is currently the only Nigeria Politics forum that is fully dedicated to enlightening, organizing, influencing and uniting first-time voters across Nigeria. This forum seeks to engage a lot on current Nigeria political news, digitally organizing and enlightening Nigerian students and social media politicians, as well as…

Power Supply: We Need The Facts

Power Supply: We Need The Facts

Originally Published On Feb 07, 2011 The President (through his VP) recently said during the opening ceremony of a Nestle manufacturing plant that Nigeria was going to add 5,000MW to the grid supply.  He didn’t tell us how!  I also recently read on President Jonathan’s facebook page that Nigeria has hit 4,000MW for the first…

Oil Subsidy Removal: Please Lead Us By Example!

Oil Subsidy Removal: Please Lead Us By Example!

Originally Published On Nov 03, 2011 Debo Onifade Nigeria is blessed, and we have enormous potential to become a rich country.  But we are very far from our potential.  In 2011, our oil benchmark price was reported as $62 per barrel.  If you assume 2.2 million barrels per day were produced in 365 days, and…

Now That The Strike Is Over

Now That The Strike Is Over

Originally Published On Jan 19, 2012 Debo Onifade Silence never won rights. They are not handed down from above; they are forced by pressures from below’ so says Roger Baldwin. I salute all the Nigerian comrades all over the world that participated in one way or the other in the last few weeks, to start…

Between Ogun State and State of New Jersey by Debo Onifade

Between Ogun State and State of New Jersey by Debo Onifade

Originally Published On Dec 04, 2013 Debo Onifade Although the State of New Jersey is highly regarded a bedroom community (where residents sleep and work elsewhere) for New York and Philadelphia, it has established itself as a very successful state in the United States of America.  It is the 11th most populous state, second richest…

How Can We Create Jobs? By Debo Onifade

How Can We Create Jobs? By Debo Onifade

Originally Published On Nov 08, 2012 Many Nigerians followed the US presidential elections and showed a lot of excitement about Obama’s victory.  I believe government officials were also energized, as we can deduce from the altercations between ACN and PDP that ensued after ABT (Ahmed Bola Tinubu) famously attended the Democratic convention.  It is great…

Nigeria’s New Auto Policy: Cotonou Will Be The Greatest Beneficiary By Debo Onifade

Nigeria’s New Auto Policy: Cotonou Will Be The Greatest Beneficiary By Debo Onifade

Originally Published On Feb 12, 2014 Nigeria is a great country that has tried fantastic but unsuccessful policies over the last decades, and this sometimes causes a lot of confusion about what good policies can indeed work in Nigeria. NYSC, SAP, Zoning, Federal Character, Nationalization (like NNPC), etc are all policies or systems that had…

Taraba clash: Violence never settles problems ― Buhari

Taraba clash: Violence never settles problems ― Buhari

By Johnbosco Agbakwuru PRESIDENT Muhammadu Buhari Tuesday evening said that the renewed communal clash in Taraba State was disturbing. President Buhari who condemned the latest ethnic violence in the state which left a large number of people dead said that violence was never the option to settle disputes. Reacting to the incident, Buhari said that…