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A Colony Of Monkeys And A Congress Of Baboons; By Femi Fani Kayode

On August 3rd 1857, in what can only be described as one of the most profound, moving, passionate and inspiring speeches in human history, Frederick Douglas, the former black slave and the great freedom fighter and philosopher said, inter alia, the following: “Let me give you a word of the philosophy of reform. The whole history of the progress of human liberty shows that all concessions yet made to her august claims have been born of earnest struggle. The conflict has been exciting, agitating, all-absorbing, and for the time being, putting all other tumults to silence. It must do this or it does nothing. If there is no struggle there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom and yet deprecate agitation are men who want crops without plowing up the ground; they want rain without thunder and lightning. They want the ocean without the awful roar of its many waters. This struggle may be a moral one, or it may be a physical one, and it may be both moral and phy

U.S. Investigates Sinopec For Bribing Nigerians With $100 Million

Indications emerged Wednesday that the China Petroleum and Chemical Corp., known as Sinopec, is being investigated by the United States’ authorities over allegations of bribe payments totalling $100 million to Nigerian officials to resolve a business dispute. According to Bloomberg investigations, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and Justice Department, are investigating claims that lawyers acting as middlemen for Sinopec allegedly funnelled illicit payments to the yet-to-be-named Nigerians from its Swiss unit through New York and California. The report noted that the payments were allegedly meant to resolve a $4 billion dispute between Addax Petroleum unit in Geneva and the Nigerian government over capital costs like drilling, tax breaks and royalties between the company and Nigeria’s oil corporation, Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC. Sinopec bought Addax in 2009 for about $7.8 billion in order to build a corporate presence in Geneva and exp

List Of JAMB Cut-Off Marks For All Universities In Nigeria

Each university have released it's own cut off marks instead of following the ones jamb initiated. Below is the cut off marks each university have closed to follow: 1 AFE BABALOLA UNIVERSITY, ADO-EKITI, EKITI STATE 180 2 COVENANT UNIVERSITY, CANAAN LAND, OTA, OGUN STATE 180 3 ODUDUWA UNIVERSITY, IPETUMODU, OSUN STATE 180 4 PAN-ATLANTIC UNIVERSITY, AHMED ONIBUDO STREET, VICTORIA ISLAND, LAGOS STATE 180 5 VERITAS UNIVERSITY, ABUJA, FCT 180 6 RITMAN UNIVERSITY,IKOT-EKPENE, AKWA-IBOM STATE 180 7 ADEYEMI COLLEGE OF EDUCATION, ONDO STATE. (AFFL TO OAU, ILE-IFE) 180 8 PIAGET COLLEGE OF EDUCATION, IBARA, ABEOKUTA, OGUN STATE 180 9 BABCOCK UNIVERSITY, ILISHAN-REMO, OGUN STATE 170 10 BINGHAM UNIVERSITY, KARU, NASARAWA STATE 170 11 LANDMARK UNIVERSITY, OMU-ARAN, KWARA STATE 170 12 REDEEMERS UNIVERSITY, OGUN STATE 170 13 EDO UNIVERSITY, IYAMHO, EDO STATE 160 14 AL- HIKMAH UNIVERSITY, ILORIN, KWARA STATE 160 15 AMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF NIGERIA, YOLA, ADAMAWA STATE 160 16 AJAYI CROWTHER UNIVERSI

Lai Mohammed Threaten To Shutdown TV Station That Granted Me Interview

The former Aviation minister, Femi Fani-Kayode, Thursday, alleged that the minister of information, Lai Muhammed and the senior special adviser to president Buhari on media and publicity, Femi Adesina, threatened to shut down the television station that granted him interview about Buhari’s health status, government and two years in office, if they dare air it for Nigerians to view. Fani-Kayode made this known in his write up tagged, “A COLONY OF MONKEYS AND A CONGRESS OF BABOONS” on his tweeter handle. The former minister faulted Buhari’s administration and modus operandi on freedom of speech and government criticisms, saying that his government is “where any form of resistance or opposition is regarded as subversion and is met with brutality and lethal force and where any telling criticism of the ruling APC party, government officials or the President is regarded as “hate speech” that must be suppressed”. According to him, “A few days ago I had a revealing, probing and i