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Federal government and cheap propaganda
Friday, 24 May 2013 06:11
The news emanating from the nostrils of the federal Government last week that Private Jets in Nigeria were used for smuggling cash and fugitives out of the country was the most ridiculous piece of propaganda any government could ever conjure!
How time flies!
About three weeks ago or so Mallam Tanko Jangwarzo in his Friday back page column in this paper lamented the present plight of the Yoruba people. 
HAVING condemned the unnecessary comments of Alhaji Mujhaid Asari-Dokubo and Kingsley Kuku on the presidential poll of 2015 which now charges up the polity, it becomes neccesary to establish my grounds for the position without pretending to ignore the fact that Asari has a cogent point.
I was distressed by the reports in some newspapers on May 1, this year, that a group of youth in Benue State attacked, in protest, the Director General of National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC), Dr Paul Botwev Orhii and some officials of the agency at the destruction site for counterfeit medicines along the University of Agriculture, Makurdi (UAM), Gbajima Road, on the outskirts of Makurdi, the state capital.
