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http://ift.tt/eA8V8J By Sunny Awhefeada THIS article was provoked by a news item in the Independent newspaper of Tuesday April 25, 2017 in which the Shell Petroleum Development Company, SPDC, claimed to have among other things carried out some acts of corporate social responsibility. The headline carrying the news reads: “Shell Commits $2.2 billion to Funding Local Contractors”. What  irked many readers with whom I interacted was what Shell claimed to have done in the education and human capital development sector. Thinking they have done something they could crow about, SPDC apparatchiks declared that the company that has made uncountable trillions from the Niger Delta since 1956 not only donated an ultra-modern subsurface research centre to the University of Ibadan in March 2016, but it has also awarded postgraduate scholarships in engineering and related fields with 60 indigenes of the Niger Delta from whose bowels the crude oil, which turned Shell into one of the world’s ri...

http://ift.tt/eA8V8J The Youths Sports Federation of Nigeria(YSFON),in conjunction with the Kastina State Government have concluded plans to stage the maiden edition of President Mohammadu Buhari National Peace Cup for U-18 boys soccer tournament According to the YSFON scribe, Patrick Okpavuerhe, the one week tournament which will be bankrolled by the Katsina state government, will hold from today to  17 May in Katsina State.  Gov Aminu Bello Masari has already given his nod for the staging of the tournament .   The post Kastina set for President Buhari National Peace Cup appeared first on Vanguard News . Vía Vanguard News http://ift.tt/2q1iYZJ

http://ift.tt/eA8V8J By Chido Nwangwu SINCE April 25, 2017, millions of Nigerians, international security and diplomatic monitors of Nigeria have been witnessing two contrasting images of the country of an estimated 170 million. One image is that of President Muhammadu Buhari. The other is the controversial profile of Nnamdi Kanu, leader of the IPOB, Indigenous People of Biafra, movement. Ironically, Buhari’s government detention and refusal to respect lawful orders of the courts for almost two years regarding the release or granting of bail escalated Kanu’s profile, globally. It sharpened the contrast with implications. First, it sent a historic reminder to all students of history and power that demands for equity/fairness  in Nigeria’s geo-politics and nationalities questions cannot be swept aside as the high-noon rantings of a few, misguided chaps possessed and jaundiced by youthful impetuosity! Such snotty, condescending nonsense and arrogance have combined to show the evid...