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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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The Essence of a Liberated Mind
Follow ( 0 Followers ) X Follow E-mail : * Follow Unfollow To speak truth to power takes a great deal of courage, especially in Nigeria where social security is lacking, and the judiciary has failed woefully in its traditional role. To speak truth to the pulpit takes more than courage; it takes a liberated […] More
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Democracy: US No Longer the Global Model
Follow ( 0 Followers ) X Follow E-mail : * Follow Unfollow Crestfallen at the victory of Donald Trump, candidate of the Republican Party over Kamala Harris of the Democratic Party in the ongoing Presidential election in the United States, Nigeria’s former Foreign Affairs Minister, Prof. Bolaji Akinyemi, says with regards to democracy, the United […] More
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Curbing Youth Restiveness in an Era of Social and Economic Uncertainty
Follow ( 0 Followers ) X Follow E-mail : * Follow Unfollow from Ibiyemi Olatunji-Bello IntroductionI am honoured to stand before you, distinguished guests, ladies and gentlemen, to address you on the menace of youth restiveness in Nigeria, a relevant topic that will examine the root cause of the recurring social crisis that has thrown […] More
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The Press in the Land of Fashionable Pandemic
Follow ( 0 Followers ) X Follow E-mail : * Follow Unfollow Chairman, Gaskia Media Ltd I want to thank the members and leadership of the Nigerian Union of Journalists, NUJ, the Bravo Zone, organisers of this event, for the special honour and privilege of standing before this distinguished audience at this sacred spot of […] More
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One CJN, Two Oaths?
Follow ( 0 Followers ) X Follow E-mail : * Follow Unfollow INTRODUCTION In a historic moment that has echoed through the corridors of Nigeria’s judicial history, President Bola Tinubu, on Friday the 23rd of August 2024, administered the oath of office to Justice Kudirat Kekere-Ekun as the Acting Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN). This […] More
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