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Save us, O dear neighbour!

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Wole Olaoye Once upon a time, there was a rich duke named Magnificus whose estate was the envy of all his neighbours. It was said by all and sundry that God was partial in bestowing so much blessing on one man. Added to his richness was the man’s comeliness. “God must have made him on […]
Edwin Madunagu
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Engagement with the Nigerian left

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By Edwin Madunagu About three years ago, a young comrade of mine who was then a student of History and International Relations at the Federal University Lafia, Nassarawa State of Nigeria, asked me a loaded personal question. He told me he prepared the question after consultation with one of his lecturers who had been following […]
Jimanze
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Shocking news from FUOYE (2)

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By Tony Afejuku The remarks I introduced and published in this column last Friday were honestly issued to assist in giving the Government Council of FUOYE and the Visitation Panel to the institution, a particular but unsolicited advice and modicum of decorum, neither with criticism, nor with intellectualism, nor with plain journalism, and the trouble […]
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Isa Pantami: My beer parlour experience

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Promise Adiele And so? If I drink beer nko? What is wrong with a tired lecturer sauntering into a beer parlour and requesting a cold bottle of beer? Legalistic, religious, and sanctimonious persons with their queer, orthodox inclinations should please give me a break. I will not entertain any of those moralistic but insincere religious […]
Nigeria
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Another look at the Nigerian situation

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By Prince Osibote Jean Jacques Rousseau’s “Social Contract” defines the fundaments of a functional cohabitation of peoples of diverse interests in these words: “each of us puts his person and all his power in common under the supreme direction of the general will, and, in our corporate capacity, we receive each member as an indivisible […]
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Justice and accountability

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By Fassy Yusuf TUESDAY (April 20, 2021) in faraway Minneapolis, State of Minnesota, United States of America, Derek Chauvin was found guilty by a jury on all counts for the murder of an African-American, George Perry Floyd Jr. Derek is to be sentenced soon and he may earn a maximum of forty years in prison. […]
Jimanze
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Buhari and his problems

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By Tony Afejuku Not a few compatriots, including commentators, intellectual columnists, and critics and analysts and dissectors such as yours truly, for instance, will not admit that there is a Nigerian play called “Buhari,” whose hero, or protagonist, or main character, is Buhari. “Buhari,” the play, even if a very incompetent dramatist or playwright, were […]
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Preparing to enter the complex world

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By Fassy Yusuf The truth now is that the world is getting more complex and for our youths to survive, they must be adequately prepared to enter a world where survival is dependent on many variables. For a starter, let us recall what one of our youths, Alao Abiodun writing from University of Ibadan said […]
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Nigeria: Open letter to Almighty God

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By Promise Adiele Almighty God, I write this letter to you on behalf of all the oppressed, suffering, brutally assaulted, and routinely bludgeoned people who live within the geographical expression called Nigeria. I wholeheartedly thank you for the great things you have done in our country. Oh God, I reverence your name seeing that there […]
Dame Julie Okah Donli
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Tricks and control mechanisms in human trafficking

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By Julie Okah Donli Trafficking in persons was relatively unknown in Nigeria until about late 90s. Victims were seen as prostitutes or illegal migrants that were justifiably deported back home. On arrival in Nigeria, victims were treated as criminals. Within the country, victims were perceived as either prostitutes for those kept in the brothels or […]
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Odumakin: Triumph of activism over materialism

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Muiz Banire The remnants of the Revolutionary Left in Nigeria were recently dealt a devastating blow on the 2nd day of April, 2021, with the demise of the fiery activist, Yinka Odumakin. It is not that his death did not confound others of different orientations and ideological backgrounds, but the Leftists in Nigeria would probably […]
Jimanze
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Lessons football teaches

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By Tony Afejuku Let me state from the outset that what I am dwelling on today was not what I intended dwelling on. Big, big issues crop up day by day, day after day and every now and then in our country, my country, your country. As we speak, as we write, as we argue, […]
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Islam, Christianity: Why the unending hullabaloo?

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By Fassy Yusuf THIS is a country that is difficult to x-ray especially when it comes to the issue of religion. Head or tail, you are misunderstood! Ordinarily, religion is ‘the belief in and worship of a superhuman controlling power, especially a personal God or gods.’ According to Wikipedia, ‘Religion is a social-cultural system of […]
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Does anybody in Nigeria deserve to be in prison?

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Promise Adiele Nnamdi Kanu, the IPOB arrowhead, needs no elaborate introduction. So, let us set aside all the preambles and liturgy of explanations. His name resonates across Nigeria in multiple cognizances. Gradually, he has become an enigma defying any definite identity. While some people conceive of him as a terrorist determined to dismember Nigeria and […]
Jimanze
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Assorted pains

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By Tony Afejuku Are we accursed people? Are Nigerians accursed in every sense of the word from top to bottom and from bottom to top? Are our citizens and compatriots members and denizens of an accursed race? Are we all typically splendidly beautiful outside or splendidly accursed inside? Are we terrible, accursed hypocrites in and […]