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A Nation in Fury: Beyond the Fuel Subsidy Protests – Continuing the Conversation

A Nation in Fury: Beyond the Fuel Subsidy Protests – Continuing the Conversation

By Ayodeji Jeremiah     “The people won. Some battles are not won in Naira and Kobo, but in a major shift in awareness and ideological paradigm shift. Subsidy programme to be probed by EFCC, Petroleum Industry Bill now on the front burner. The people have gained new awareness, the leadership has a taste of [...]

A New Nigeria of our Dream

A New Nigeria of our Dream

By Professor Ben Nwabueze   THE crisis over the removal of petroleum subsidy, which has just ended, though it threatened the basic amenities and comforts of life of all of us, especially the common people, is only a symptom of a much more basic and fundamental malaise that threatens the very life of our dear [...]

Beyond the Fuel Subsidy: Conversations the Government and the NLC should be having

Beyond the Fuel Subsidy: Conversations the Government and the NLC should be having

By Ayodeji Jeremiah (1) Despite strong economic growths in the past 5 years, our government is broke because there is extreme wastage on recurrent expenditure. Our government is too big and extremely expensive to maintain. Our National Assembly consumes a huge amount of our budget. The president, governors and local government chairmen and their assistants [...]

TIMELESS EDITORIAL – Nigeria’s Homosexuality Bill: Why it is Pro-norm and the West Hypocritical

TIMELESS EDITORIAL – Nigeria’s Homosexuality Bill: Why it is Pro-norm and the West Hypocritical

Nothing in recent times has gripped the imagination, drawn the ire (both for and against) and stirred the soul (and pens and tongues) of a very wide cross section of the public as the Homosexuality Act recently passed by the National Assembly, to await the President’s ratification. With it has come surprising yet predictable threats [...]

EDITORIAL: ‘Sanusi: fanning into flame embers of national discord’

EDITORIAL: ‘Sanusi: fanning into flame embers of national discord’

With the controversy over the proposed introduction of Islamic banking still raging, we consider it grossly irresponsible of Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) Governor, Malam Sanusi Lamido Sanusi to drag the country into yet another decidedly Islamic organisation. The controversial CBN boss must have taken his cue from erstwhile military ruler Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida who [...]

VACANCY FOR EDITORIAL ASSISTANT

VACANCY FOR EDITORIAL ASSISTANT

JOB SPECIFICATION/DESCRIPTION FOR EDITORIAL ASSISTANT   Vacancy exists for this position in a media/publishing firm involved in the production of books, magazines and newspapers. A first degree in any field. Fresh graduate or maximum of two years work experience. Female candidates only. Desired Skills Set – An excellent command of written & spoken English. – [...]

Enjoy a TIMELESS Christmas

Enjoy a TIMELESS Christmas

Win a Mona Matthews Sandals by doing the following: Subscribe for 10 copies of Timeless for 3 months at the subscription rate of N250 per copy to total N7,500, pay and confirm your subscription latest by Friday Dec 3. The first 4 people to do so automatically win these sandals. No raffle draws. Simply pay [...]

Celebrating Nigeria at 51

Celebrating Nigeria at 51

The good thing about Nigeria is that it is not all a bad story. Nigeria has as her citizens, some of the most outstanding people that the world has ever seen. Everywhere you go in the world, you will see a Nigerian doing great things. We must begin to celebrate all these people and begin [...]

Honour Nigeria

Honour Nigeria

Ituah Ighodalo   Nigeria is one of the greatest countries in the world and has been extremely blessed by God. A land of about 574,003 sq. Miles and 150 million people with huge natural resources, wonderful weather, no known or serious natural disaster, where almost anything of agricultural value can grow; a place that has [...]

NAOSS holds lecture in honour of Late Chief (Mrs) Folayegbe Akintunde-Ighodalo

NAOSS holds lecture in honour of Late Chief (Mrs) Folayegbe Akintunde-Ighodalo

  The National Association of Ondo State Students (NAOSS), Yabatech Chapter, hosted a public lecture in honour of Nigeria’s first female Permanent Secretary, late Chief (Mrs) Folayegbe Akintunde-Ighodalo. The lecture which is part of their annual activities took place at the Yusuf Grillo Auditorium, Yaba College of Technology, Lagos. The theme of the event was [...]

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