Category: Columnist
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From Irrua to Abuja, a telecom user’s experience – By Okoh Aihe
It is certainly very refreshing to step out of your little bubble of comfort and visit some other parts of the country, especially for a good cause – the Reunion of ACCIOBA ‘79 Set, the Annunciation Catholic College Old Boys who left school in 1979. Please, don’t add 46 years ago so that you don’t…
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Ayo Olukanni: The People’s Ambassador, steps forward – By Owei Lakemfa
I was a teenager when I first met Ayoola Lawrence Oluwole Olukanni, one of the most politically conscious, perceptive, charismatic and efficient African ambassadors I have ever known. I had joined a radical student organisation, the Alliance of Progressive Students, ALPS in the then University
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Uromi 16: What if they are not hunters? Part 1 – By Godwin Etakibuebu
Every normal human being would condemn extra-judicial killing at any given time. Those that are empowered by the Nigerian Constitution to secure lives and properties, even when investigating crimes and suspected criminals, are never authorised by any law of the land to kill until a court of competent jurisdiction so pronounces.
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NNPCL Leadership: Agenda for faltering oil giant – By Dakuku Peterside
The appointment of a new leadership team at the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPC Ltd.) has sparked fresh hope. However, history teaches us that leadership changes in Nigeria’s public institutions is often not a guarantee for remarkable positive changes . Each transition is seen as a potential turning point,
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Edo Guber: How Ighodalo made Okpebholo’s confirmation easier than expected – By Ehichioya Ezomon
In other climes, people learn from history. But in Nigeria, it’s history that learns from the people. No matter how unfavourable the precedent is – which should serve to guard against a recurrence – Nigerians will keep doing the same thing, and expecting a different result, as starkly revealed on Wednesday, April 2, 2025, at…
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Is the police Paul Obukohwo’s friend? – By Francis Ewherido
“The police is your friend,” is a popular saying of the Nigerian Police Force. “Friend” has many definitions, but this definition suits my discourse today: “someone who is not an enemy and who you can trust.” Do Nigerians see the police as people they can trust? “The answer, my friend, is blowin’ in the wind…,”…
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The alpha males of South Sudan and Sudan in bloodbath – By Owei Lakemfa
The African labour centre, the Organisation of African Trade Union Unity, OATUU, in April 2013, marked its 40th Anniversary. The anniversary lecture was delivered by then African Union Commission Chair, Dr. Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma. The trade union centre of the newest country in the world, the South Sudan Workers Trade Union Federation
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When are you going to get a proper job? – By Azu Ishiekwene
He didn’t say when his father asked him, but I wonder what the old man must think in his grave. Jonathan Power is now 83 and arguably one of Europe’s most widely published columnists. He was a young freelance journalist when his father asked him the question.
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As political opponents prepare to challenge Tinubu’s 2027 re-election – By Magnus Onyibe
My family and I join millions of Nigerians in extending our warmest birthday wishes to President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, a formidable political strategist of our time, as he turns 73.
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Goodluck Jonathan and others spoke to an un-listening president and his unelected vice – By Godwin Etakibuebu
First, I have it a duty to simplify the above captioned topic to enable readers’ understanding. This need to be done before embarking on the actual journey of producing the full body of this piece. The President named here as un-listening is Bola Ahmed Tinubu. That he is not listening is not a false