Babajide Otitoju
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I am a multiple award-winning investigative journalist, historian, polemicist and songwriter with varied experience in both the print and electronic media.
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Goodbye my friend, Gen Ibrahim Attahiru, our new chief of army staff. This is so difficult to take, so devastating. RIP good man.
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My younger sister's son who is based in Canada was a victim of SARS harassment. Now he's scared of coming home. That is why I won't sit on the fence. Anybody could be a victim. If you once fell a victim you would join the
#EndSARSImmediately
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I have never seen a country easing covid-19 lockdown when its confirmed cases are rising embarrassingly. 196 cases again on Wednesday night. We will soon discover that it is better to be alive than anything else. A ma wa alright las las.
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The tragedy we face is that those who are ready to steal are more than those who are currently stealing. Corruption has seized our country by the balls.
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Why are we as Nigerians gradually becoming people who cannot think beyond our religions and ethnicity? Shame on educated young people who bring religion into even the most elementary and pedestrian issues.
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While many of us are utterly infatuated with stories about the United States presidential election, things are getting worse in our own country. Unending ASUU strike, unending killings by bandits and Boko Haram, even of soldiers, unending appetite for borrowing by government.
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There can be no justification for shedding the blood of protesters. It is a sad day and I am patently shocked and ashamed that this happened in my country.
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I have been sent at least 12 videos of the supplementary poll in Kano. Some of the scenes would make you think the videos were shot in Rivers State. We can't draft AIGs, DIGs and others to secure an election only for thugs to run riot. Shame, big shame on these politicians.
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I just spoke with a lawmaker representing Jere local government, Borno state. He confirmed that 43 farmers were indeed beheaded in Koshebe village, near Zabamari. Sad day for our country.
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We've got to draft members of the defunct SARS to the northeast to join the effort to defeat the Boko Haram frankenstein.
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It is my desire that the elite who arrived from Europe and America, refused to self-isolate and are, therefore, responsible for 80 percent of the spread of the coronavirus will be put on trial once they are healed of the contagion.
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I have been stuck in traffic for four hours. If I am lucky I could still be on the Journalist Hangout show. Protesters have my support still.
#SARSMUSTEND
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We must always remember that not everyone who passed through the university or any tertiary institution for that matter, no matter how long they got trained, are truly literate.
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Keep your political appointment, suggest it not to me. I already swore to God on live television that if any politician offered me one I would promptly reject it. The job I do currently is better than any political appointment.
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I have heard some people say the
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As I prayed on Journalists Hangout last week, may God punish severely those using the army and the police to rig elections. Kilode gan?
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When kidnappers abduct a top ranking policeman and audaciously ask for ransome it sends an unambiguous message to us all that nobody is safe.
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I unreservedly lend my voice to calls for policemen guilty of barbaric brutalities against young Nigerians to be brought to book. SARS' inglorious harassment and killing of defenceless Nigerians must stop.
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Every sensible and reasonable person should be concerned about the wellbeing of Nigeria and its people. I am concerned, how about you?
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Inspector-General of Police, Mohammed Adamu says "you have the right to search a policeman before he searches you". My advice: don't try it if you value your life.
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I criticised the army's invasion of coĺlation centres in Rivers state to the shame of Nigeria. But a faceless idiot on twitter says Wike has bribed us at TVC. That's cheap and infantile blackmail, but it won't stop me from criticising illegal use of the army in elections.
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So much was lost to the fire at TVC but no job lost.
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Manchester United tonight became the first team in premier league history to win four games in a row with three goals or more. 17 games unbeaten. Glory glory Man United.
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To seize an inlaw of President Muhammadu Buhari, who is also the father inlaw of the president's ADC, less than a kilometre to President Buhari's countryhome in Daura underlines how seriously we must address the problem of armed banditry and kidnapping in our country.
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Sycophancy, ethnicity and religious bigotry will take us nowhere as a people. Unless we secure the Nigeria of our dream, we are never going to be at peace with ourselves.
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Great Britain's Prime Minister Boris Johnson, was pressured to relax the lockdown but he refused flatly. He said :"keep your impatience in check. I am not going to fritter all the gains we have made by relaxing the lockdown too early".
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It is very sad that the number of coronavirus patients is already outstripping capacity in Lagos, with people not promptly evacuated for testing. Some die waiting. We must urgently improve capacity in Lagos, the epicentre, or this extremely dangerous virus will spread rapidly.
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Together we win, together we'll birth and nurture a great nation where the leaders are accountable to the people. An uncultured police force, eager to brutalise the people it is paid to protect is an obstacle to the realisation of the Nigeria of our dream.
#SARSMUSTENDNOW
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How best do we deal with clerics in Kano with huge following, who undermine our collective pain and sacrifice in the war against coronavirus by spreading the lying message (propaganda) that there is no coronavirus?
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God did not design human life for it to be made as cheap and as brutish as it currently is in Nigeria.
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In the new year, show no mercy to bandits. Show to them that nobody can defeat the state, crush Boko Haram and end their inglorious years of killing our civilians and soldiers. This is my new year request to President Buhari and the armed forces.
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Dear Governor Masari and President Buhari. I challenged you to do whatever you can to bring the Kankara schoolboys back home.
I am relieved you've brought them home. How you did it is not my business. I am also not so naive as to expect you to tell me all the negotiation story.
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Drive yourself as hard as you can. Your success is the best revenge against your haters. It tastes like poison in their mouths.
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To see evil and be silent about it is the worst form of cowardice.
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FREEDOM FOR KANKARA SCHOOLBOYS
In two hours maximum, insha Allah, about 340 of the Kankara Schoolboys should arrive in Katsina, the secretary to the government of the state confirmed that to me a while ago. God is great.
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Today on Journalists Hangout we shall dedicate all of the one hour to the protests against police brutality in our is the fifth time in seven days that on JH we are focusing on the historic efforts of young people to change our country.
#EndPoliceBrutality
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Welldone to the indomitable Nigerian youths and other people who pushed for the dissolution of SARS. The
#EndSARSBrutality
campaign has yielded dividends and it is marvelous in my eyes.
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Even lions grow old, too old to hunt for food and stay alive. I love you Ronaldo, but you can't dominate the game forever. Don't fight any coach who puts you on the bench. By your current performances you can't be anywhere else, but the bench.
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Economist Bismarck Rewane says Nigerians are living in a vicious circle of poverty. Omosexy says hell is here. The simple truth is: it is difficult to disagree with these fellows. President Buhari must walk his talk.
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Selfishness is the middle name of the average Nigerian politician.
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Governor Aminu Masari bursts into tears, as bandits storm Government Science Secondary School in Kankara LGA, Katsina State, kidnap dozens of students from their dormitories early today. More than 300 boys believed to be missing.
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Every day someone gets kidnapped on the Abuja-Kaduna highway. Bandits are getting away with their ugly craft and making tons of cash whether in Zamfara or Katsina or Kaduna or anywhere else. SARS men prefer to turn their guns on the innocent rather than bring bandits to justice.
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When you're talking about the 2019 general election some fantastic memories spring to mind, but the polls sure leave one with the inevitable feeling that we have taken some giant steps backward in our electoral evolution.
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Gov Zulum of Borno state heard today that soldiers caused a big traffic gridlock on Maiduguri-Damaturu highway, collecting N1000 each from drivers.He went there, upbraided the soldiers and ordered that the drivers on the endless queue be released to proceed on their journeys.
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Shame on those behind sick abuse and death threats targeted at Super Eagles goalkeeper, Maduka Okoye. The same boy saved two Tunisian shots from point blank range that could have made it 3-0 to Tunisia. Yes he made a costly mistake, we all make mistakes. Show love not hate.
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Pastor Paul Enenche, one of the very capable teachers of the Word, is angry. But calling a human being, the work of God's hands, " a monumental waste of existence", no matter the level of provocation, is in my view disproportionate anger.
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The animalistic killings in Southern Kaduna and the unrestrained armed banditry in Birnin Gwari, especially must stop.
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I am sure there are economists ten times better than Charles Soludo in Britain. Great leaders don't buckle under meaningless pressure.
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To be the voice of millions of the voiceless, to be able to speak the truth to power, and to be appreciated for what I do, the risks I take investigating the carnage in the northeast is better than anything a politician can offer me.
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I predicted the humiliation of Barcelona on last week's edition of Journalists Hangout.
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Never knew that day would come in my time when Nigerian state governments would see nothing wrong in negotiating with and granting amnesty to mass murderers. But there is a huge cost to this, I just wish they realise that.
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Martha Bulus (right) was killed by Boko Haram on Boxing Day in Gworza, along with her bridesmaids. She was going to Jimeta, Adamawa State to prepare for her wedding scheduled to hold on December 31, 2019. These killing of innocent civilians need to stop.We must crush Boko Haram.
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Watching the video of Nigeria's first female fighter jet pilot, Kafayat Omolara Sanni and first female combat helicopter pilot, Tolulope Arotile brought tears to my eyes. I just keep imagining the depth of the grief and anguish of the Arotiles about Tolulope's shocking death.
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The rate at which Nigerian army continues to suffer setbacks against Boko Haram in Borno North shames me as a patriot. Today, Gajiram, headquarters of Nganzai local government area was attacked. By the time the guns fell silent th enemy had became richer by three trucks. So sad.
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If the courts grant bail to an accused person, you must obey the courts. You can't cherrypick what court orders to obey. To resort to brinksmanship after bail has been granted and the conditions for bail met is irresponsible and unacceptable.
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Ahmad Salkida posts news items about terrorists and gets insulted. I just can't understand this behaviour. Instead of attacking the wrong person let us prevail on our government and the military to crush ISWAP so that the regular killing and abduction of Nigerians will stop.
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So because a person is not a lawyer he mustn't comment on legal matters, he cannot cite time-tested legal principles.
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Our collective security and wellbeing are now at stake. Time to stand up and be counted among those who brushed aside party affiliation and spoke the truth to power. Welldone senators Ali Ndume and Kashim Shettima for setting the right example.
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The shaming of Messi is comprehensive and it is marvelous in our eyes.
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If the flogging of abducted male and female students of Forestry Mechanisation Institute, Kaduna does not push our armed forces to exterminate these capricious bandits intent on bringing our country to its knees, nothing else. will.
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Congratulations Wizkid and Burna Boy. What an unprecedented Grammy night for Nigeria. Proud of you guys. See you on JH tomorrow.
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How beautiful would it be to have an electoral culture full of credibility and elections where riggers don't get away with the crime.
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After winning Lagos, the way Labour Party is flogging other parties in Delta state, with results of 16 local governments collated, is staggering.
#Election
like no other.
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It is now very imperative to conduct a thorough investigation into the now recurrent loss of our warplanes and personnel in non-combat scenarios.
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I never said soldiers shouldn't be deployed in volatile Rivers state for elections. We need soldiers to give election-rigging militants a bloody nose. However, soldiers breaking into collation centres to disrupt collation is unacceptable. I won't stop condemning it.
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Stay tuned to Journalists Hangout as we dedicate it to discussing the Southern Kaduna crisis today and tomorrow. On Wednesday we will look at the latest peace efforts and how to concretise the efforts. Surely enduring peace must return to Southern Kaduna.
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Once upon a time, travelling on Nigerian roads, especially at night, was so much fun. It provided an opportunity to know the country and its people a lot more. These days you travel at great risk of being kidnapped or killed by rampaging bandits.
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Two words matter to me: good governance. I like Buhari as an individual. But I do not and will never blindly support him or the activiities of itò o9 is
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President Buhari has bowed to Nigerian youths. Never believe something is impossible. Never ever expect freedom unless you are prepared to work for it.
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Our country is bursting at the seams with depraved men who make pretensions to religion. Shame on those whose duty it is to turn people (women) to God, who turn them to objects of sexual pleasure.
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Only in Benin city can you see that: I saw a video today of a young man flogging a policeman with a belt, and headbutting him; ignoring the fact that the policeman was armed with an AK-47. Only in Edo state...
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No matter how unpalatable to the ears the truth is, it still renains what it is : THE TRUTH.
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Beating the German league leaders silly (5-0) engenders a happy feeling. Ole's at the wheel baby!
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Election days in Nigeria should no longer be days of overpowering terror, when the barrel of the gun and not the will of the majority triumphs.
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We complained in the Southwest states that it wasn't raining in the zone, whereas communities were being flooded in the northwest staes. Now the rains are keeping us indoors. But we can't complain. Thank you baba God.
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Tottenham Hotspur has shown us that miracles will always happen in football. But to experience a football miracle, you must believe that you are not down and out. As the late Dele Giwa said, " the man who wins is the man who thinks he can win".
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Have we surrendered to the criminals who daily kidnap people on the Kaduna-Abuja highway? How much longer will they be allowed to kill and kidnap our people.
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David De Gea is yet to stop a penalty out of 35, yet serial failure Ole Gunnar Solksjaer kept faith in him. They say penalties are lotteries, but there are keepers good at stopping them.Does anyone remember ex-Enyimba goalie, Ayenugba who conquered Africa by stopping penalties?
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Today on Journalists Hangout, Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu speaks on the onerous task of governing Lagos. Time: 5pm-7pm. Let's go there!
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Lagos State House of Assembly had an emergency sitting on Friday and passed a resolution calling for
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My Manchester United conceding a goal so late to Chelsea, knowing how mouthy their fans are hurts like having dollars picked from my pocket. In Mourinho I absolutely trust.
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What a terrible time to be a Liverpool supporter. Four straight losses at home and inability to score in open play since the beginning of the year.
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During my post-election analysis on TVC between 6am and 9pm today I condemned the resort to violence as a weapon to win elections. If you didn't watch it at the time, check the TVC News YouTube channel for my strong opinion on the matter.
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The usually noisy Chelsea supporters quietened against their will. Whether it is sports or politics, defeat brings out the humility in man.
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That Chelsea shoulder will certainly come down now. No bigger shame than being beaten by a 9th-placed team with ambition the size of an ant
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My dad, High Chief, Johnson Kolade-Otitoju was in the studio today to watch Journalists Hangout live. Here he is seated in the middle with panelists, Martins Oloja standing, Wale Adedayo and the award-winning anchor, Ayodele Ozugbakun.
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Shame to bad people. In Mourinho we absolutely trust. Football's best match reader. Living legend.
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Nigerians need to know that nobody jumped out of the airplane in which chief of army staff, Attahiru was travelling and died when it crashed. The video that went viral talking about people jumping out via parachute is a 2018 video.
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There is a futile attempt to make it look like all crimes in Nigeria today are blamed on herdsmen.Those promoting the notion are as depraved as the bandits abducting people.The Police say so many ex-herdsmen are into kidnapping across Nigeria.That's bad enough and must stop.
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Defeat tastes less bitter when an enemy almost immediately also succumbs to it. Thank you Crystal Palace. I eventually had a good sleep on the day Christ defeated death.
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So have we given up, have we resigned to fate that we can't protect the Zamfara people from bandits who are kiĺling them with irtitating consistency?
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These yeye boys in red have sent me to bed so early.
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