Category: Columnist
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Preparing for Trump deportation copycats in Europe – By Azu Ishiekwene
I can understand if many people outside the US wish to forget about President Donald Trump and get on with their lives. However hard you try, you can’t keep up with the chaos in the White House since January 20.
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So, what happens to SkillUp Imo now? – By Okoh Aihe
Please, don’t let the above question trouble you. It’s my response to the SkillUp Imo documentary which I watched recently. It was so totally unexpected but so delightfully nourishing at the end that I couldn’t have asked for anything better to see on television that very day.
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Nigeria has no state religion, only manipulators of religion – By Owei Lakemfa
Anambra State Governor Charles Chukwuma Soludo in a Trumpian manner, made several fallacious and specious statements at the December 2024 dedication of a new church building in Onitsha. For example, the press quoted him as saying: “Since the inception of my administration,
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Attempts to link Obasa’s impeachment to Seyi Tinubu’s ‘guber aspiration’ mischievous (2) – By Ehichioya Ezomon
In the first installment of this header on Monday, January 20, 2025, several reasons were adduced to establish that there’s no nexus between Seyi Tinubu’s alleged aspiration for the 2027 Governorship of Lagos State, and the January 13 impeachment of Lagos State House of Assembly Speaker Mudasiru Obasa, over his reported ambition for the same…
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Nigeria has no state religion, only manipulators of religion – By Owei Lakemfa
Anambra State Governor Charles Chukwuma Soludo in a Trumpian manner, made several fallacious and specious statements at the December 2024 dedication of a new church building in Onitsha. For example, the press quoted him as saying: “Since the inception of my administration, we have declared war on criminals, their shrines, priests and burnt down their…
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The return of President Donald Trump – Hope Eghagha
One of the much vaunted and supposedly sacrosanct features of democracy according to America, is the power of the people and the inviolability of the ballot box in choosing who leads the country. Added to this is a smooth transition of power from one administration to another even where there is a ‘hostile takeover’, that…
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AI, Nigeria and Trump 2.0 – By Dakuku Peterside
The global race for artificial intelligence (AI) supremacy is swiftly redrawing the contours of economic and technological power, ushering in a new era that rivals the Industrial Revolution in its transformative potential.
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The scriptures and the power of God – By Femi Aribisala
Imagine a situation where your life is telling a story, except that this story is not your story but someone else’s. You are just living your life but do not know your life is telling a story that someone else has decided to tell. How can that be? Remember this: “(God) is able to do…
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The limits of presidential absolutism – By Chidi Amuta
Barely one week into his refurbished presidential tenure, America’s Donald Trump seems poised to set new precedents in the model of the Presidency as the pinnacle of America’s democracy. From a bumbling and bigoted first term, the newly minted Donald Trump seems to be a refurbished version of his original version.
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Umo Eno, Akpabio and the politics of 2027 – By Etim Etim
The 2027 political season is arriving a bit too early in Akwa Ibom State, and as usual, the starting point is mudslinging and salacious political publications targeting at the incumbent governor and his predecessor.