They don’t call Nigeria a football nation for nothing. If anything, our running round in circles makes the appellation apt, even if that wasn’t the real reason for the nomenclature. After all, IBB was called Maradona at some point. I watched with ho.rror as Nigerian politicians jostled over themselves to launch ‘A journey In Service,’ written by one of Nigeria’s most controversial rulers, Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida [IBB], who held the nation spellbound from 1985 to 1993. I came into journalism in 1988 at the peak of IBB’s dictatorship and my…
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How Fire Gutted Our Headquarters – Premium Times Opens Up
“The fire started from the office of the Editor-in-Chief, Musikilu Mojeed, shortly after he left for Jumat prayers before the spraying of soot to other parts of the offices.” Nigeria’s news platform, Premium Times, has given graphical details of how its headquarters in Abuja was razed by fire, destroying properties and vital documents. Platforms Africa gathered from a report by the newspaper that the fire started from the office of the Editor-in-Chief, Musikilu Mojeed. Mr. Mojeed has, few minutes before the incident, left for Jumat prayers, according to the…
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