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Wednesday, 18 January 2017

Army’s Frustration, Premium Times’ Sabotage by Bukar Raheem


PIC. 16. FROM LEFT: GOC 1 DIV., MAJ.-GEN. ADENIYI OYEBADE; CHIEF OF ARMY 

STAFF, LT.-GEN. TUKUR BURATAI AND ACTING ARMY CHIEF OF ACCOUNTING AND 

BUDGET, BRIG.-GEN. ADEYEMI ADETAYO, AT THE 10TH BIENNIAL CONFERENCE OF 

NIGERIAN ARMY FINANCE CORPS, IN KADUNA ON WEDNESDAY (16/9/15).
6659/16/9/2015/SP/ICE/BJO/NANTwo angry letters later, the relationship between the Nigerian Army and online newspaper, Premium Times has taken on some clarity. They have both threatened to take legal actions against each other but the Army’s letter, which came first is the one that gives one concern.  Some Nigerians would by now be ruing their earlier recriminations and taking sides without the benefit of information.
The first layer of concern is about what the military’s letter accused the newspaper of. The second level of concern derived from the inability of the letter written in response by Premium Times to sufficiently discharge it from the weighty accusations levelled against it  by the army.
On a different facet is the dimension that the army has not made similar accusations against any other

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