“When there is no enemy within, the enemy outside can do you no harm” – – Ancient proverb. “The Ides of March”, made popular by William Shakespeare in his book, Julius Caesar, is the 74th day in the Roman calendar, corresponding to 15th March. Marked by several religious observances, it was notable for the Romans as a deadline for settling debts. The Ides of March is best known to us as the date Julius Caesar was assassinated in 44 BC after a seer had warned him to “beware the Ides of March”. In a story of betrayals, about 60 conspirators…
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The brouhaha that has continued to greet the intended defections of political gladiators from the ruling All Progressive Congress (APC) to the opposition People’s Democratic Party (PDP) in Kaduna State is entangled in a somewhat acrobatic summersault, a melodrama of some sort of unimaginable proportions. Never in the history of the defections into the party has it generated this much ruckus that is threatening to consume some consummate party chieftains who are flagrantly imbued with mercantilist mentality and political miasma juxtaposed by a desire to maintain some political relevance against all odds. Superficially the unity and political stability of the…
Further investigation into the Ramon Abass (aka Hushpuppi’s) $1.1 million internet scam, which earlier involved the suspended Commander of the Police Intelligence Response Team, DCP Abba Kyari and other accomplices, has revealed over the weekend, that the scam has no links with Kyari. Although the office of the Attorney General of the Federation, AGF, in its first legal advice had admitted that a prima- facie case of money laundering of 33 payments (proceeds of crime), by the DIG Joseph Egbunike-led Special Investigation Panel, SIP, was established against Kyari, a new legal advice, following further investigations, has exonerated Kyari from money…
The global governance system must be reformed for a more efficient, inclusive and fair system to meet the needs of the current world, participants underlined Saturday during a panel in the Antalya Diplomacy Forum. In the panel called “Revitalising Multilateralism: U.N. and Beyond,” veteran Turkish diplomat Volkan Bozkır, who was the president of the 75th session of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA), said that the current United Nations system was a product of mid-20th century and does not meet the needs of the 21st century. “We need tools of the 21st century to respond to the issues of this…
The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia on Saturday, executed 81 persons convicted for crimes killings and membership to militant groups. This is the largest known mass execution carried out in the kingdom in recent history. The executions have surpassed the toll of January 1980 mass execution of the 63 militants convicted of seizing the Grand Mosque in Mecca in 1979; the worst-ever militant attack to target the kingdom and Islam’s holiest site. It wasn’t clear why the kingdom choose Saturday for the executions, though they came as much of the world’s attention remained focused on Russia’s war on Ukraine. The number…
By Sputnik On 11 March, the UN Security Council convened at Russia’s request to discuss the “biological activities of the US on the territory of Ukraine”. Earlier, the Russian Ministry of Defence discovered 30 biolabs in Ukraine and released documents indicating collaboration between Kiev and the Pentagon on studying highly dangerous pathogens. “The US State Department says that the public mission of the biolabs in Ukraine is about securing Cold War era Soviet bioweapons”, says former Pentagon analyst and retired US Air Force Lt. Col. Karen Kwiatkowski. “The companies that operate and have constructed these labs competed far more recently…
I came across an analogy of the Russia-Ukraine conflict in a Facebook explanatory message between husband and wife when they were preparing to retire to their bed. The wife said, “Russia is an aggressor for attacking Ukraine, a smaller country without “provocation”. The husband kept quiet and decided to pick a kitchen knife, which he placed on the bed in-between them. The wife commented, “is it not risky to keep the knife on bed between us when we are about to sleep”. The husband said that is precisely the answer to your accusation of Russia being an aggressor. Ukraine is…
Virtually all Nigeria political parties are in deep crisis. Those who control them have no respect for internal party democracy and due process. They see their positions as party leaders as opportunities to use the organisation for the maximum advantage for themselves. They show absolutely no concern about the possible risks their reckless behaviour poses for the survival and future of the party. They party is only a vehicle for their personal ambition and they are ready to move out to another party at any time if their own parties collapse due to their own reckless behaviour. The current crisis…
Sokoto state governor, Aminu Tambuwal on Thursday, visited his Kebbi state counterpart, Atiku Bagudu to condole with the people and government of Kebbi over the recent bandits’ attacks in Zuru Emirate that resulted in the death of some vigilantes. Leading a high powered delegation to Government House in Birnin Kebbi, the governor also donated N30 million to the families of the victims of the attacks, adding that the visit was to commiserate the people and government of the state on the ambush laid by bandits on the convoy of the deputy governor, Samaila Yombe. “There were also other similar incidents that…
The former national chairman of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Extraordinary Convention Planning Committee (CECPC), Mai Mala Buni has said that Kaduna state governor, Nasir El-Rufai lied about his alleged sack by President Muhammadu Buhari. El-Rufai had in an interview with ChannelsTV, claimed that he had the authority of the Chairman of the Progressive Governors Forum (PGF), governor Atiku Bagudu, to explain the action that led to the appointment of Niger state governor, Abubakar Sani-Bello as acting chairman of APC. But Buni in the letter dated February 28th, exclusively obtained by THE NATION, claimed that he write to hand over…