Category: Columnist
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Vietnamese poisoned over 50 years, as Mexico, Nigeria seek joint survival – By Owei Lakemfa
Can you imagine being born 50 years ago with poison in your system; assured that the only remedy is death? That was the fate of about three million Vietnamese who were sprayed herbicides called Agent Orange, specially manufactured by the United States, US, to ensure the victims were not only exterminated but also
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Resolving the telecoms service disruptions in Kogi State – By Okoh Aihe
Just when you think you have heard or seen it all in the convoluting story that is the nation’s telecommunications industry, you find out that the story hasn’t really started at all. In fact, more things begin to emerge from the cauldron of mysteries in the manner of what they call stranger than fiction. Only…
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Them belly full, but we hungry – By Owei Lakemfa
The ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, is in a celebratory mood as more politicians defect, depleting the ranks of the rival Peoples Democratic Party, PDP. In what was like a tsunami in Delta State, Governor Sheriff Oborevwori, his predecessor Ifeanyi Okowa and
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Bola Tinubu got the Nigerian state captured long before the Delta State tsunami – By Godwin Etakibuebu
The political Tsunami really broke out in Delta State on Wednesday, April 23, 2025, when the Executive Governor of that Oil rich State, Sheriff Oborevwori, collapsed every structure of his Political Party – the
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Omo-Agege, Nwoko’s failure to stop Oborevwori, Okowa’s defection to APC – By Ehichioya Ezomon
The handwriting was boldly displayed on the wall many months before Wednesday, April 23, 2025, when Delta State Governor Sheriff Oborevwori, his predecessor in office and vice presidential candidate of the
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A Pope’s funeral and new leadership paradigm – By Dakuku Peterside
The world came together on a warm April morning in Rome. Under Bernini’s wide colonnade, a simple wooden coffin lay, almost shy against the grand marble of St. Peter’s. It held the body of Jorge Mario Bergoglio, better known as Pope Francis; it also carried a final message, passed without words. As I watched the…
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My party will swallow all yours – By Chidi Amuta
Nigeria’s political landscape never ceases to astonish and amaze. In addition to our habitually surprising electoral outcomes, our politicians are dramatists of immense creativity. They have an uncanny ability to literally convert things into their opposities and still retain public attention and ignite curiosity and sustain
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Education can never be a scam – By Francis Ewherido
Frustration has recently pushed some youths to describe education as a scam. It didn’t start now. It is only getting louder as it is becoming harder for graduates to get employment. I want to be very clear from the beginning. Wikipedia defines education in its simplest form as “the transmission of knowledge and skills and
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Pope Francis, our father, gone to Heaven – By Owei Lakemfa
The ascendancy of Jorge Mario Bergoglio, Pope Francis, to the papacy was a trinity of sorts. It was historic, prophetic and redeeming. For 1,272 years, the papacy was occupied by Europeans only, especially the Italians. Some even joked about the Italian Mafia at work. Indeed, some mafia might at various stages been at work.
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Waiting for an African Pope – Azu Ishiekwene
It’s nothing to laugh off, however tempting. If the movies imitate life, we may not be as far away from an African pope. It happened in The Conclave, a film by Peter Straughan released in 2024, based on the novel by Robert Harris.