Category: Columnist
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Motor insurance simplified – By Francis Ewherido
In the article marking the International Day for Tolerance on Saturday, November 16, I promised to break down and simplify motor insurance. With the festive season and the attendant increase in vehicular movement and associated risks, it has become all the more important.
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Word of the Year 2024 – By Azu Ishiekwene
I was watching the evening news on Monday night when two presenters used a word at different times that jolted me. I’ve heard and seen that word used often, especially by millennials and Gen Z, but I didn’t entirely pay heed because they were mostly in informal settings.
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The system failed my Brother – By Okoh Aihe
This is not the kind of material I want to be writing at this time but necessity has placed it upon me to do so, in case somebody finds it useful and may want to act for the good of society.
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Who wants Mike Adenuga Jr. dead? – By Magnus Onyibe
The recent false alarm about Chief Mike Adenuga Jr.’s death was so influential that legendary musician Ebenezer Obey felt compelled to release a song debunking it.
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Standing on the shoulders of Isah Uguda and Jibrin Ibrahim – By Owei Lakemfa
In the roaring 1970s, the nationalist fervent was at a feverish pitch in the country and, the Pan- Africanist and independence fires were tearing through Mozambique, Angola, Guinea Bissau, Cape Verde, Zimbabwe and Western Sahara. Also, there was fire in Soweto.
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Tintinnabulation of PH refineries and well-being of Nigerians – By Ikeddy Isiguzo
FOR most of Tuesday I started doubting if there were two refineries in Port Harcourt after those I spoke with insisted that there was one refinery in Port Harcourt, the one that the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited, NNPCL, announced its triumphant return to production.
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The path not chosen – By Hope O’Rukevbe Eghagha
In life, the ideal is for us to choose our pathway to the future, even if blindly, but sometimes our paths are chosen for us or prepared for us or charted for us. Chosen for us by parents, mentors, friends, religious leaders, and political, cultural and social circumstances.
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EFCC vs Bello: Trivialising corruption allegations – By Ehichioya Ezomon
In my November 18, 2024, article entitled, “That ‘fake’ Sanwo-Olu vs EFCC suit: Whodunit it? Who sponsored it?” I held that snapets from the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) moves to investigate, arrest, detain and prosecute ex-governors “are telegraphed a few months or weeks before they bow out of office,” so giving them the…
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Kukah on accidental leadership – By Dakuku Peterside
In reflecting on Nigeria’s leadership journey, Bishop Matthew Kukah, a Catholic priest, activist, and philosopher, delivers a searing observation: “Almost every leader who came to power did so by accident.” With these words, he stirred an hornets’ nest, igniting a spirited discourse on the nation’s perennial struggle with leadership.
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Our ‘One Party’ Democracy – By Chidi Amuta
Of all the ills that afflict a democracy, a stubborn virus in the party system is the most lethal. Where politicians treat the party system as their exclusive preserve, to do as they wish, it is hard for the system to self- correct let alone see that there is anything wrong.