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Dame Julie Okah Donli
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Budding crimes in irregular migration

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By Julie Okah-Donli Harsh economic conditions, especially in developing countries, have created a flourishing atmosphere which traffickers exploit to recruit unsuspecting victims, mostly women and children, who have been subjected to all forms of dehumanizing labour conditions both within and
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South-East Nigeria: Before it is too late

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By Promise Adiele Last year, while delivering a lecture at the National Institute of Cultural Orientation (NICO) Lagos, a highly placed government official from Abuja attending the lecture asked me a question. Hear him. “Please Doc. How can we locate the voice of reason in Nigeria’s present, almost tragic circumstances”? Before his question, I had […]
NIMASA
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Transcending the lean times

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By Dakuku Peterside Criticism makes leaders wake up, and it puts them on their toes. It is a natural component of leadership. We all acknowledge that it is always easier to criticise than to appreciate; hence Benjamin Franklin, one of America’s founding fathers and a political philosopher, has this to say, “any fool can criticise, […]
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The COAS plane crash and its aftermath

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By Hope O’Rukevbe Eghagha All serious nations celebrate, honour their armed forces. It is a long-held tradition. Even in primitive societies, the gallant defenders were always honoured especially if they died in battle. The message or the subtext is to the living: if you die in service, we will give you a heroic burial and […]
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Democracy, Leadership and the future our Republic

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Jerome-Mario Utomi Two separate and conflicting arguments about how a nation can entrench masses- focused leadership and public institutions devoid of corruption/transparent governance stemmed this piece. The first came from Kurt M. Campbell and Jake Sullivan. While writing on the topic; Competition without Catastrophe, the duo authors among other concerns argued that the
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Cows and spare parts: Tribute to ignorance

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Promise Adiele Ignorance! Ignorance!! Ignorance!!! How many times did I call you? In the days of yore, elders and parents emphasized the thrice-call pattern to underscore the immediacy of the moment. The thrice-call pattern signifies a portentous concern. Anytime anyone is called three times, it is always of symbolic relevance. God utilized the thrice-call pattern […]
Dame Julie Okah Donli
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Opinion: Irregular migration routes

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By Julie Okah-Donli The International Organization for Migration (IOM) defines it as “movement that takes place outside the regulatory norms of the sending, transit and receiving country” (IOM, 2011) Irregular Migration is a component of human trafficking as most traffickers find it easier to manipulate the movement process if the formal processes of migration are […]
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The beatification of a coup plotter

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Owei Lakemfa Mahamat Idriss Deby, 37, bedecked in the military fatigue of a four star general, spotting a red beret and some decoration on his chest, was seen at the Nigeria Aso Rock Presidential Villa on Friday, May 14. He had at least two other four star generals in similar fatigue, red and blue berets, […]
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Conversation Nigeriana (5)

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Hope O’Rukevbe Eghagha Emeka: Hehehehehehe! Na wa for this country! Aboki: What is the new wa? Emeka: It was reported last week that robbers invaded the official residence of President Buhari’s Chief of Staff which is in the top security zone of the federal capital territory! Kalio: What is the big deal about that? It […]
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Insincerity of our leaders

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The greatest issue in our polity today is the insincerity of most of our leaders. Insincerity is synonymous with distortion, lies, deception, falsity, pretence, dishonesty, hypocrisy, ambidexterity, artificiality, phoniness, disingenuousness, and lots more. It is unthinkable that some of our leaders are not losing any sleep over the country’s dire straits! A very worrisome
Peterside
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Rumblings from the south

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Dakuku Peterside The amalgamation of Southern and Northern Nigeria protectorates in 1914 to form the Nigerian state seems unfinished. Since this union, there has been constant and continuous agitation for a national debate, under different brand names, to discuss the existence and future of the country. During periods of crisis, these divergent protectorates, although done
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Nigeria; Insecurity and the crisis of leadership

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By Jerome-Mario Utomi Similar to Chinua Achebe who in his booklet entitled; the Trouble With Nigeria, noted that the trouble with Nigeria is simply and squarely a failure of leadership, Raymond Anoliefo, Priest and Director, Justice Development and Peace Commission, (JDPC), Lagos, a social justice arm of the Catholic church that monitors social, economic, political […]
Jimanze
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Good news from blessed Benue

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By Tony Afejuku Not long ago I dwelt in this column on the governor of Benue State. The topic was what I called “Ortom the tough.” I don’t wish here now to do a review of what I said then. But what I did generally then was to focus positively on what I can now […]
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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 […]