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Articles/Opinion, National Conference 2014
Thursday, October 17th, 2013
By Sufuyan Ojeifo The cerebral Catholic Bishop of Sokoto, Matthew Hassan Kukah, captured it succinctly in a recent interview wherein he described the proposed National Conference by President Goodluck Jonathan as a coup against the opposition. Indeed, traditional opposition elements, especially from the Southwest, who never expected such proposition from Jonathan, had no choice other […]
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Wednesday, October 16th, 2013
By Uche Ugboajah Since the President, Goodluck Jonathan, announced some days ago his decision to give the Nigerian people-what they have been demanding over the years-the opportunity to dialogue over the Nigerian state, the true colours of statesmen and pretenders have started to unravel. For years, some politicians have shot into national limelight masquerading as democracy […]
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Agabus Pwanagba, Articles/Opinion
Wednesday, October 16th, 2013
By Uche Igwe I am intimately connected to Anambra State. My wife Chukwunonso hails from there. However my interest in Anambra state goes slightly beyond the type an ordinary in-law should have. I love the entertainment of their politics. It stands out as an intriguing theatre of absurdities. Mostly unpredictable, always filled with uncertainty, sometimes […]
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Articles/Opinion, National Conference 2014
Wednesday, October 16th, 2013
By Francis Ehigiator Leader of the opposition All Progressives Congress (APC), Alhaji Bola Ahmed Tinubu, recently launched a major attack against the National Conference proposed by President Goodluck Jonathan: he questioned the president’s sincerity and capability to organize such a conference. Tinubu did not stop there; he took liberty-in typical opposition manner-to take elaborate swipes […]
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Tuesday, October 15th, 2013
Leo Igwe This is another reason why you should raise your voice in protest against Pastor Enoch Adeboye’s planned tour of the Pacific in November. We need to end witch hunting around the globe. Witch persecution ended in Europe and most parts of western world centuries ago. But this violent campaign continues in many regions of the […]
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Tuesday, October 15th, 2013
By Uche Igwe In recent months I have had a cause to comment on several issues concerning Rivers State. This is because these happenings have far reaching significance beyond the geographic confines of that state. I am heartened that prominent Nigerians like former Head of State, Gen. Abdulsalami Abubakar (rtd), Nobel Laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka and […]
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Saturday, October 12th, 2013
By Omozuwa, Gabriel Osamwonyi Nigeria’s unenviable status of development is often attributed to the divisive politics of recycled leaders. Their abject failure to embrace the spirit of innovation and cooperation, and become a unifying force for national transformation has endangered the stability, peace and progress of Nigeria. Hence, there is a growing clamour for generational […]
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Friday, October 11th, 2013
Fredrick Nwabufo A studied view of some Nigerian workers brings to the pellucid surface flotsam and jetsam of brazen and utter disregard for work ethics and professionalism. Pragmatic and religious observance of even common nuances, forms and rules of the work ethic vademecum seems to be a mountainous task for a motley depressing number of […]
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Articles/Opinion, National Conference 2014
Thursday, October 10th, 2013
By Chido Onumah During his Independence Day broadcast on October 1, President Goodluck Jonathan announced to a somewhat surprised nation his intention to facilitate a “national dialogue” on the future of Nigeria. To this end, he set up a 13-member Advisory Committee which was inaugurated a few days ago. It is understandable if Nigerians have […]
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Africa, African News, Articles/Opinion
Thursday, October 10th, 2013
By Chigozie Chikere, Lagos It was the thriller maestro James Hadley Chase who wrote the novel, A Coffin from Hong Kong, in which Nelson Ryan a private investigator arrives his office to discover a dead Chinese girl, obviously murdered. With this development, Ryan is pitched right into the teeming and sordid nightlife of Hong Kong to […]
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Wednesday, October 9th, 2013
Ignatius Okpara Operatives of the special Anti Robbery Squad SARS of the Enugu state police command on Tuesday nabbed a notorious suspected cult kingpin identified as Mba Chukwuemeka popularly known as “Dontiti” of the vikings confraternity. He was arrested by the operatives at about 7pm at Ngwo community, in Enugu North council area of the […]
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Monday, October 7th, 2013
By Emmanuel Onwubiko Before the coming of Ms. Stella Odua as minister of Aviation, the Nigerian Aviation sector was like a hell on Earth because of the frequency of air disasters and other associated impunity that made our nation’s airspace to become so notorious in the comity of nations. A little over a year since […]
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Articles/Opinion, Ebonyi, News
Sunday, October 6th, 2013
By Umar Ndukwe In what seems to be a breakout from the ‘microphone saga’ last two years in Ebonyi State, in which Muslims in the state were allegedly banned from using the loud speaker to call for their prayers, there is another lingering religious upheaval latently engineered by a group of people in Ezi Egwu […]
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Sunday, October 6th, 2013
By Fredrick Nwabufo Salisu nestles under a baobab tree which is at the centre of Kagua village, Bize in Borno state, Nigeria. It is a sunless afternoon. The humming wind cruises right about him, and dry leaves touchdown as if betokening the grave and sad atmosphere. Crestfallen and utterly devastated, Salisu ponders on his life which […]
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Abia, Articles/Opinion
Sunday, October 6th, 2013
By Nnaji Obed Asiegbu The onus of developing Abia State lies on her citizens and that is why His Excellency, Governor Theodore Orji in his Independence Day speech urged all Abians to support his administration’s effort at bequeathing an enduring legacy for future generations. Governor Orji through his legacy projects in the State is seeking […]
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Sunday, October 6th, 2013
By Keith Ebiuwe In my over five decades on mother earth, I have never comprehended the import of the cliché ‘’never judge a book by its cover” until by divine providence, I met Rt Hon Victor Onyekachi Ochei, the Speaker of the Delta State House of Assembly, during the recent Annual Conference of the Nigerian Guild of […]
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Articles/Opinion, Featured, Femi Kehinde
Saturday, October 5th, 2013
By Femi Fani-Kayode Last year on June 3rd 2012, there was a plane crash in Nigeria in which over 163 people were killed. The plane was owned by Dana Air. The day before that on June 2nd 2012 a Nigerian cargo plane owned by Kabo Air left our shores and flew to Accra, Ghana where […]
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Articles/Opinion, National Conference 2014
Saturday, October 5th, 2013
By Ben Ikari Mr. Goodluck Jonathan’s decision to set up an advisory committee that will bring about modalities for a National or otherwise Conference in Nigeria is suspicious of his political intent and interest. Ordinarily, a genuine call of this nature, particularly if a Sovereign National Conference (SNC), which most Nigerians have demanded will not […]
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Friday, October 4th, 2013
By John Ainofenokhai It amazes me why people do not always like to come to equity with clean hands; otherwise, the Peoples Democratic Movement (PDM), which courted controversy from the manner it was secretly registered as a political party behind the back of a vast majority of its founding leaders and members, should have exercised […]
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Friday, October 4th, 2013
By Sufuyan Ojeifo On Sunday, September 29, 2013, President Goodluck Jonathan hosted a five-member interview panel in the latest edition of the presidential media chat, which was more refreshing than the previous ones for many reasons that I will not be preoccupied with in this piece. But I must remark that the president spoke frankly […]
