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Nigerian Army Renames Calabar Barracks After Late COAS Attahiru

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Nigerian Army Renames Calabar Barracks After Late COAS Attahiru By Editor  The Nigerian Army has renamed Akim Barracks, Headquarters 13 Brigade, Calabar, Cross River State, as Ibrahim Attahiru Barracks in honour of the late former Chief of Army Staff (COAS), Lieutenant General Ibrahim Attahiru, in recognition of his service, leadership and ultimate sacrifice in defence of the nation.Buy Maps The Chief of Army Staff, Lieutenant General Waidi Shaibu, performed the renaming ceremony on Tuesday, November 10, 2026, during his operational visit to Cross River State, on behalf of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Nigeria.Follow Politics According to an official statement signed by the Acting Director Army Public Relations, Colonel Appolonia Anele, the gesture was aimed at preserving the memory of the late Army Chief and recognising his contributions to the Nigerian Army and the country. Speaking at the ceremony, Shaibu described the ren...
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Two Years In Office: Editors Praise Okpebholo's Road, Erosion Projects After Inspection Tour

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Two Years In Office: Editors Praise Okpebholo's Road, Erosion Projects After Inspection Tour By Editor   Edo State Governor, Senator Monday Okpebholo, on Monday took editors and other stakeholders round some of his administration's major infrastructure projects in Edo South Senatorial District, three days before the government marks its second anniversary on Thursday, November 12, 2026. The tour covered road construction, urban infrastructure and erosion control projects in and around Benin City, and gave the media executives a chance to see completed and ongoing works for themselves. Locations visited included Catholic Charismatic Road, off Upper Ekenwan Road, Ugbighoko; the erosion control project at Ekenwan Army Barracks; Adesuwa Flyover on Sapele Road; the Sapele Road reconstruction; Ogheghe Road; Old Sapele Road; Temboga Road; Utteh Palace Road; Ikpoba Hill Flyover at Ramat Park; Obaseki Road and its erosion control works; and Okpagha. At the Ekenwan Army Barr...
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OPINION: Lest The Courts Kill Our Democracy

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TUESDAY FLAT OUT   OPINION: Lest The Courts Kill Our Democracy    By Suyi Ayodele   (Published in the Nigerian Tribune on Tuesday, November 10, 2026)   https://tribuneonlineng.com/lest-the-courts-kill-our-democracy/    “...Democracy’s most trusted guardian – the courts- is sometimes the weapon used to destroy it.”   This quote is the synopsis of the 2026 Harvard’s Institute of Quantitative Social Science (QISS) doctoral research on the topic: Why Courts Sometimes Undermines Democracy.   The doctoral research by Andrew O’Donohue, a Postdoctoral Fellow at Princeton University and a Fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, focused on the 2016 coup in Istanbul, Turkey and how the people resisted the putsch. However, while democracy won through the people’s resolve to preserve it, the researcher discovered, to his amazement, that the principles, ethics and ethos of democracy started depreciating rapidly.   O’Donoh...
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Okpebholo Aide, Ojo Urges Business Owners To Maintain Persistence... Charges Edo Entrepreneurs On Strategic Partnership At ACAGE 7

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Okpebholo Aide, Ojo Urges Business Owners To Maintain Persistence ... Charges Edo Entrepreneurs On Strategic Partnership At ACAGE 7  Iduozee Efe Paul, Benin  In a bid to key in to the SHINE AGENDA of Senator Monday Okpebholo, a high level inter-sectoral collaboration, strategic partnerships, and structural capability building have been highlighted as indispensable catalysts for enterprise growth and economic elevation across Edo State. The Special Adviser to the Edo State Governor on Building Project Monitoring and Implementation, Irene Iziegbeuwa Ojo, made the assertion while addressing participants as a keynote guest speaker at the ACAGE 7 "The Elevation" SME Seminar held at Randeki Hotel in  Benin City, Edo state. Speaking on the theme: “The Business of Elevation: Building, Funding, and Scaling,” the Governor’s aide cautioned budding entrepreneurs and innovators against operating in isolation, noting that individual execution without collaborative equity le...
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OPINION:US Victories And Other Life Stories

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Monday Lines 2 OPINION:US Victories And Other Life Stories By Lasisi Olagunju (Published in the Nigerian Tribune on Monday 9 November, 2026).  As long as we live, our accomplishments are not over (B'a ò kú, ìṣe ò tán). Individually and collectively, celebrated winners in the US midterm elections teach lessons: descendants of slaves and servants can hold the authority their ancestors were denied; the hands that build roads and fell trees can raise children who would grow up to make laws; and workers themselves can move from the forest to the chamber of power.  And there is no permanent champion in life. Ancient storyteller, Aesop, tells the tale of a tiny biting fly that challenged a lion and defeated him. The gnat stings the king of beasts all about the face until the furious lion, clawing at his tormentor, wounds himself.   After winning Michigan’s Senate race on Wednesday last week, popular Abdul El-Sayed took pointed swipes at his country's president, Donal...
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Edo State Govt Inspects Ultra-Modern Veterinary Hospital, Abattoir In Etsako West

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Edo State Govt Inspects Ultra-Modern Veterinary Hospital, Abattoir In Etsako West ...Reaffirms Okpebholo’s Livestock Development Drive The Edo State Government has reaffirmed its commitment to transforming the livestock sector through strategic investments in modern veterinary infrastructure, as the Ministry of Livestock Development inspected the state-of-the-art L-PRES Model Veterinary Hospital in Aviele, Etsako West Local Government Area. The inspection, led by the Commissioner for Livestock Development, Honourable Ohimai Ehijimetor, was aimed at assessing the facilities and operational capacity of the hospital, which was commissioned on June 27, 2026, by the Minister of Livestock Development, Alhaji Idi Mukhtar Maiha. Speaking to journalists during the inspection, Ehijimetor described the facility as the best veterinary hospital in the entire South-South geopolitical zone, noting that it represents a major milestone in the Okpebholo administration's efforts to reposi...
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Billionaire Senator And Lazy, Hungry Nigerians

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Monday Lines 1 Billionaire Senator And Lazy, Hungry Nigerians By Lasisi Olagunju (Published in the Nigerian Tribune on Monday 9 November, 2026).  On November 26, 1926, Sanusi Adebisi Giwa (Adebisi Ìdí Ìkán), Ibadan's legendary philanthropist, was installed as the Ashaju Baale of Ibadan. He leapfrogged about 10 rungs on the chieftaincy ladder because he had money in excess and spent it like rain water. Akinpelu Obisesan, the celebrated Ibadan diarist, noted in his private diary: “Adebisi rose from the rank of political servants to the rank of political masters. Surely, money is the god of the world...” A century later, money remains the god of the world. In August 2026, President Bola Ahmed Tinubu appointed Abdulaziz Yari, the billionaire former governor of Zamfara State and senator representing Zamfara West, as director-general of his Presidential Campaign Council for the January 2027 election. With tonnes of real money in his chest, when this DG directs, even his polit...
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