Category: Columnist
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Detty December: It’s the currency devaluation, plain and simple! – By Magnus Onyibe
In a similar vein, the title of this piece—“Detty December: It’s the Currency Devaluation, Plain and Simple!”—is aimed at highlighting a core factor behind the recent surge in economic activities and festivities in Nigeria during December: the significant devaluation of the naira.
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The BAT presidential media chat – By Hope Eghagha
At last President Bola Ahmed Tinubu agreed to participate in the traditional media chat after one and a half years in office. For so long, he simply and stoically ignored jibes about his refusal to speak at some length to the media.
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Edo 2024 guber petitions: Let the legal fireworks begin (2) – By Ehichioya Ezomon
The All Progressives Congress (APC) certainly has its work cut out, as the hearing proper begins today, January 13, 2025, into the petitions filed by seven political parties against the declaration of Senator Monday Okpebholo as winner of the governorship election in Edo State on September 21, 2024.
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Banks’ excess profits tax: Cause-related marketing to the rescue? – By Magnus Onyibe
In response to the Central Bank of Nigeria’s (CBN) proposal for a 70% tax on the excessive profits banks made from naira devaluation in 2023—profits which increased by at least 51% due to President Bola Tinubu’s economic reforms—there has been a noticeable rise in banks’ philanthropic activities.
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What you might expect in 2025 – By Azu Ishiekwene
This is the fifth in my series of annual forecasts. For a part-time Nostradamus, my record has been above average. The forecasts usually come earlier, in the last week of December. Yet, the potency of this edition is not diminished by the delay.
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Wedding vs marriage – By Francis Ewherido
Wedding simply means a marriage ceremony. These are the rites/ceremonies before you formally become husband and wife. Marriage, on the other hand, is that institution God created “where a man leaves his parents and clings to his wife and they become one flesh.”
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Akufo-Addo and Western Sahara: The parting shot of a quisling – By Owei Lakemfa
Ghanaian President Nana Akuffo-Addo’s last day in office was January 6, 2025. His country’s economy had crumbled at his feet. Even when newly sworn-in President John Dramani Mahama had not been adjudged an effective leader, Ghanaians see him as a sort of saviour. For them, anybody or group but Akufo-Addo and his cronies, was good…
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President Tinubu gets high marks in ‘history test’ – By Dennis Onakinor
If the 19th Century English scholar and politician, John Dalberg-Acton, is right in his popular saying that, “Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely,” then it follows that powerlessness frustrates, and absolute powerlessness frustrates absolutely.
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From America to Nigeria, good technology possible without pains – By Okoh Aihe
The tech industry promises to be very interesting this year. It will bring excitment, it will also inflict pain. Nations will go after each other and try to sabotage each other’s growth where possible. Others will expand growth and dominance and even extend it to conquest as manifest display of strength.
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Peter Obi: The danger that lies ahead – By Etim Etim
I knew Peter Obi in the university, although we were in different faculties. He came from a rich family, drove a new Peugeot car and always turned out like a ‘bourgeoisie’ as we mockingly referred to kids from privileged backgrounds.