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Why Nigeria Requires No More States
Follow ( 0 Followers ) X Follow E-mail : * Follow Unfollow Does Nigeria require more states at present? The answer to this poser, going by the existing socio-economic and political conditions of the country, is provided by Luke Onyekakeyah, a columnist in the Guardian Newspapers: ‘’If anything, the existing state structure has done more […] More
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Africa and the Nixau Toma Syndrome
Follow ( 0 Followers ) X Follow E-mail : * Follow Unfollow The 1980 Box Office comic movie “The Gods Must Be Crazy” garnered over $200m. Meanwhile, Nixau Toma, the lead actor, was paid $300 for his role; he died a wretched poor man in 2003 at 59 years. How so? Nixau was hugely exploited […] More
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Are Yoruba Muslims truly marginalised?
Follow ( 0 Followers ) X Follow E-mail : * Follow Unfollow (Published in the Nigerian Tribune on Monday, 3 February 2025) Each time we hear or read outsiders say they are fighting for Yoruba Muslims, some of us (Yoruba Muslims) laugh. Who told them that we cannot fight our war ourselves – if there […] More
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Islam: Beyond terrorism and Boko Haram
Follow ( 0 Followers ) X Follow E-mail : * Follow Unfollow (Published in the Nigerian Tribune on Monday, 20 January 2025). The United Arab Emirates has just held its Abu Dhabi Sustainability Week. Our president was there. A part of that event was the World Future Energy Summit which ended on Thursday last week. […] More
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Okpebholo: Confounding the Doubters, Redefining Leadership in Edo
Follow ( 0 Followers ) X Follow E-mail : * Follow Unfollow By Fred Itua As I set out to pen this piece on this serene Sunday afternoon, my mind is drawn to the profound epistle of Apostle Paul to the Corinthians in 1 Corinthians 1:27-29: “But God hath chosen the foolish things of the […] More
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Creating Demand for The Naira
Follow ( 0 Followers ) X Follow E-mail : * Follow Unfollow A national currency is one of the things that makes a country sovereign, it should be the pride of a Nation, its strength, purchasing power and therefore guarded with all …its acceptability of its legal tender (National Currency) is important, with vast economic […] More
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Desperate Crowds and Foods of Death
Follow ( 0 Followers ) X Follow E-mail : * Follow Unfollow (Published in the Nigerian Tribune on Monday, 23 December 2024). I died one bright day in 1969 – yes, died: crushed by a motorcyclist. It happened on Ileya Day (Eid el Kabir) in my hometown. I did not know, and still do not […] More
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Tribute: How I saw General Godwin Abbe – By Chris Osa Nehikhare
Follow ( 0 Followers ) X Follow E-mail : * Follow Unfollow It is with profound sadness that I write to honour the life and legacy of General Godwin Abbe, an extraordinary leader whose impact on our lives and our nation will never be forgotten.As a soldier, politician, and mentor, he embodied the principles of […] More
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Fubara’s Governance with a Humane Heart
Follow ( 0 Followers ) X Follow E-mail : * Follow Unfollow .A few weeks ago, I walked into the office of Elder I.O. Samuel, Director-General of Rivers State Pensions Board (RSPB), and everyone was in a jubilant mood; they were grinning from ear to ear, virtually summersaulting, and exchanging robust handshakes and bear hugs. […] More
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Nigeria and a Poet’s Crystal Ball
Follow ( 0 Followers ) X Follow E-mail : * Follow Unfollow Poetry has been referred to as “language of the gods”. It is said that the source of the art is in the void, the complex cosmos of consciousness, which is in the mysterious hands of the multi-Omni Divine. The rhymes and rhythms of […] More
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Happy Birthday to My Friend, Dr. Goodluck Ebele Jonathan, GCFR
Follow ( 0 Followers ) X Follow E-mail : * Follow Unfollow GEJ, you are a true democrat in the truest sense of the word. More than eight years after you left office, many Nigerians are still yearning for your kind of humane and purposeful leadership that shunned discrimination, tribalism, sectionalism, prebendalism and cronyism. Nigeria […] More
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Onnoghen, Free at Last
Follow ( 0 Followers ) X Follow E-mail : * Follow Unfollow “Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor, it must be demanded by the oppressed” (Martin Luther King, Jnr). Justice Walter Onnoghen who was unfairly disgraced out of office presumably as a crook by a former dictator President, General Muhammadu Buhari, has just demonstrated […] More
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