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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
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 […]
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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, […]