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Laolu Akande

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Journalist: Host, Inside Sources & Founder, Empowered Newswire. Husband, father & preacher. (Media Aide to Nigeria's VP 2015-'23)

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Chief George Moghalu, who was founding National Auditor of the ruling APC, left the party recently & spoke about it on the Sunday edition of #InsideSources yesterday. In this clip, he recalled how some poor national decisions of the past are now coming back to bite us as a

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More from the #InsideSources interview during the Sunday edition yesterday. Chief Moghalu notes that while he sympathizes with the Tinubu administration, the criticism the government is currently facing from Nigerians is also understandable.

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Good point Elon Musk, if you meant that Kamala Harris won the debate last night, you would be absolutely correct. But to expect VP Harris to be the one calling the shots already in the White House or trying to judge her by what she didn't do so far as VP-you are then missing the

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Seen Thursday at the Council for Foreign Relations, CFR, in Washington DC, former Kaduna State Governor-the embattled Mallam El-Rufai Nasir Ahmad El-Rufai himself and two of my very good friends & Nigeria's globally shining academic stars-Dr. Wale Adebanwi, professor at US Ivy

Seen Thursday at the Council for Foreign Relations, CFR, in Washington DC, former Kaduna State Governor-the embattled Mallam El-Rufai <a href="/elrufai/">Nasir Ahmad El-Rufai</a> himself and two of my very good friends &amp; Nigeria's globally shining academic stars-Dr. Wale Adebanwi, professor at US Ivy
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Let's talk about the issues that is, besides Trump's controversial character. And when we say that, it seems to me widely accepted that at least this guy is controversial in terms of many of his behaviours. For instance, if someone rejects the settled fact that Obama is indeed

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On #InsideSources yesterday, here is a clip from the "My Take" segment-WHO WILL TELL THE PRESIDENT (4) "So who will tell the president that the first thing on the way out of this national feeling of despondency is for him to take some drastic decisions & state publicly some

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Who will tell the president that if he doesn't have the courage to stare the corruption in the oil and gas sector down : eye ball to eye ball, why is he talking to Nigerians about the discipline in the Chinese Society?

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Let's hope that someone will help us tell the president that as rough and as touchy as things are today, some Nigerians still take him very seriously when he makes such remarks like he did in China recently, that (and I quote him again), "that I am committed to providing -the-

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Our guest on Friday last week on #InsideSources was Prof. Chukwu, health minister from 2010-2014, a true gentleman & patriot. He is also a member of the Ohaneze Restructuring Committee. We had a fascinating discussion on human capital development and several other issues. This

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Another clip of #InsideSources with Prof. Chukwu, who was minister, when Nigeria dealt with Ebola. So, I asked him if we really needed to shut down the country during Covid in 2020? Hindsight wise. See clip for his answer.

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During My Take in the Sunday edition of #InsideSources, I referred to the flooding situation, especially in Maiduguri. Below is a clip from it & here is some of what was said: "Yet again, our people in large numbers across the Federation have become victims of another flooding

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An exclusive report by Empowered Newswire broke the story yesterday, and today, the Presidency has confirmed it. Mr. President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has chosen to send his deputy, VP Shettima to the United Nations General Assembly's 79th session while he himself will stay home & deal

An exclusive report by Empowered Newswire broke the story yesterday, and today, the Presidency has confirmed it. Mr. President <a href="/officialABAT/">Bola Ahmed Tinubu</a> has chosen to send his deputy, VP Shettima to the United Nations General Assembly's 79th session while he himself will stay home &amp; deal
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In Friday's edition of #InsideSources we shifted gears and featured an insider in the private sector Kyari Bukar to assess our economic journey as a nation to the $Trillion economy as envisioned by the President. He submits that corruption is the big elephant in the room. A very

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Arrived New York a few days ago to cover the United Nations annual summit and was featured this morning on Channels Television detailing the line up of the UN 79th General Assembly.

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On Thursday, soon after my arrival to cover the 2024 UN annual summit, it was disclosed that Bola Ahmed Tinubu would rather focus on urgent domestic issues & challenges at this time instead of heading here in New York only days after returning from China & US. Discussing the