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Health experts have continued to warned about the dangers of consuming soda (or soft drinks as they’re known in these parts), but consumers like me sadly seem not to take the warnings seriously, especially because of the addictive nature of some of these frizzy drinks.

nigeria has a lot to do to woo buyers following the decision of China to ignore crude from nigeria. This is happening at a time when the country has become the biggest casualty of the rising United States shale oil production.

I t was a development foretold but it was equally an eloquent testimony to the veracity of that ageless axiom: history has a way of repeating itself  Before appraising the emergence of Abubakar Bukola Saraki as senate president and the crowning of Yakubu Dogara as speaker of the house of representatives, you have to rewind to early June 2011. The then ruling PDP had zoned the speakership to the south-west. But Aminu Tambuwal, now governor of Sokoto state, had other ideas. Relying on the opposition then, the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN), which did not want the PDP to have any foothold in the south-west through any high ranking public figure, Tambuwal went against the directive of his party. He not only emerged speaker, he romanced the opposition throughout his reign. That was the most audacious challenge to the PDP since its creation in 1998. A GAME OF HIGH STAKES Fast-forward to 48 months later and the same scenario has played out itself. But this time around, the st...