Today's Headlines: Adeleke Begs Banks To Return To Osun, Why I Crossed To Biafra To Meet Ojukwu—Wole
Adeleke Begs Banks To Return To Osun
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Osun State Governor, Ademola Adeleke, has pleaded with the management of banks that were forced to shut down operations in some towns in the state to reopen their branches.
Adeleke, who assured them of improved security, spoke at the commissioning of the rebuilt Ede branch of First Bank of Nigeria on Friday.
A statement by the governor’s spokesperson, Olawale Rasheed, obtained in Osogbo on Saturday, noted that Adeleke also declared that his administration has reworked the state’s security architecture to secure major towns and villages.
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Why I Crossed To Biafra To Meet Ojukwu—Wole
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The life and times of Prof. Wole Soyinka, especially in a piece that attempts to chronicle his acts of bravery, will be incomplete without the familiar story of how he broke into the Nigerian Broadcasting Corporation studio in Ibadan during the Western Region’s political crisis in 1965.
Soyinka tersely dismisses the question on that with this:
“I had matured into a period of a people on the rise, on the move – people of dignity who refused that their voices should be stolen, arrogantly and contemptuously. There have been quite a few moments of my existence among people like that… I was one of them, my voice was being stolen. I could not sit down and accept that somebody should steal my voice. I felt at one with the majority of the people.”
Tinubu Urges African Leaders To Respect Democracy, Demands Action Against Coups
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President Bola Tinubu, on Saturday, called on African leaders to respect democracy, rule of law, and ensure political stability.
He also called on the United Nations to take firm stance against military coups.
The President spoke in Nairobi, Kenya at a high-level event organized by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) on the margins of Fifth Mid-Year African Union (AU) Coordination Meeting.
Tinubu also urged African military institutions and states to recognize and respect the need for democratic renewal.
The Nigerian leader, who is also the Chairperson of ECOWAS Authority of Heads of State and Government, said coups d’état should be discouraged in the continent, especially in the face of challenges like the COVID-19 pandemic, insecurity, and climate change.
Fuel subsidy: FG’s proposed N8,000 package stirs controversies
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The decision by the Federal Government to pay N8,000 to about 12 million households in a bid to mitigate the effect of the fuel subsidy removal is generating mixed reactions.
DAILY POST recalls that the president, on Thursday, while seeking the approval of the National Assembly to borrow $800million from the World Bank, revealed the plan of his administration to transfer N8,000 monthly to 12 million low-income households for six months.
In a letter read at the upper chamber by the Senate President, Godswill Akpabio, on Thursday, Tinubu noted that the money would be transferred directly to the beneficiaries’ accounts.
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