Category: Columnist
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Citadels of indiscipline – By Dakuku Peterside
Universities are meant to be the heart of a nation’s progress—places where the brightest minds are nurtured, and the moral compass of future leaders is set.
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Assault: Bolt driver throws public, police, lawyers under bus – By Ehichioya Ezomon
What’s become of the three-count charge of “abuse of office, assault, and threat to life” instituted by the Nigeria Police against a House of Representatives member, Alex Ikwechegh, for dehumanising an e-hailing Bolt driver, Stephen Abuwatseya, on October 27, 2024, in Abuja?
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National Sports Commission, Shehu Dikko compounds a deliberate confusion – By Ikeddy Isiguzo
I got a call from Mallam Shehu Dikko who after pleasantries said that I went “off mark” by writing about the illegality of the National Sports Commission which he was announced the Chairman three weeks earlier.
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Raising the red flag for peace with thousand-day Ukrainian ruination – By Owei Lakemfa
THE first one thousand days of the Russo-Ukrainian War was on Tuesday, November 19, marked in Europe like an anniversary rather than a day of reflection.
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Democracy as Minority Rule – By Chidi Amuta
There is a shrinking feeling about it all. With each off -season election that is conducted and results announced, we feel smaller and more unfree as a polity.
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Deltans, here we go – By Francis Ewherido
On March 17, 2023, former President Muhammadu Buhari, signed a historic amendment bill, moving electricity from the exclusive legislative list to the concurrent list.
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How President-elect Trump plans to transform Washington – By Magnus Onyibe
President-Elect Donald Trump, set to assume office as the 47th President of the United States on January 20, 2025, is preparing to usher in transformative changes that are already evident in the composition of his team. These changes, so striking, might have been considered heretical during historical periods of rigid orthodoxy, such as the Age…
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No good news from the broadcast industry yet – By Okoh Aihe
For most of last week, Multichoice was in the news. The organisation that has dominated PayTV business in Nigeria for over three decades, is facing consequential financial atrophy, having lost 243,000 subscribers across its DSTV and GOtv platforms in just six months, from April to September this year, as disclosed in its Interim Financial Reports.
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Ibrahim Gambari: The intellectual and diplomat who saw tomorrow – By Owei Lakemfa
If the Nobel Peace Prize were less political, more objective and based on direct efforts to achieve peace, Professor Ibrahim Agboola Gambari should have been an awardee long ago.
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Revolutions are dead, long live the Rat Race – By Hope Eghagha
Last week, I posted an observation on my Facebook page about how revolutionary ideas which were dominant in our university days have completely disappeared from the university system. Students who are leaders now copy the lifestyle of politicians. University teachers no longer teach revolutions. The reactions which I got have been presented in an edited…