Category: Editor’s Pick
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I went below poverty line in 2020 – Dele Sobowale
By Dele Sobowale “…the CBN must not give money to import food. Already about seven states are producing all the rice we need.” President Buhari, December 2020. God knows I want Buhari to remain President until 2023 because, unsettling as that might be for some people, it is the best of all options before us.…
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Vaccine nativity and naivety in a fractured world, By Owei Lakemfa
By Owei Lakemfa HUMANITY in 2020, the year we bade a hurried goodbye to, yesterday, like snails, withdrew into their shells following the outbreak of the corona virus COVID-19 pandemic. It was an instinctive abandonment of multilateralism. Not even the countries that claim to be religious entities, remembered that they are enjoined to…
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Welcome, 2021 – Francis Ewherido
By Francis Ewherido I wholeheartedly welcome 2021 as I have welcomed every New Year since 1979, when I consciously started welcoming a new year. But I am not one of those who are relieved to see the back of 2020. Why should I? What is new and peculiar to 2020? Is it because of bereavements?…
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Making a Difference: Paying Attention to Detail – Chris Anyokwu
By Chris Anyokwu Most of us are lovers of the beautiful game, called football in these parts or soccer in the USA and other parts of North America. The puzzle, however, is: Why is it called “the beautiful game?” Why aren’t other forms of sport so called? Are they marred by ugliness or played without…
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2021: ‘Let’s Go Afishing’ for Love, By Michael West
By Michael West Despite the trauma and dreadful encounters we experienced in 2020, we thank God that we made it into the New Year. But hey, 2021 will be tighter! Never mind, we will survive it like we did 2020 by the mercy of the Lord. This year, many marriages will take place.…
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The Guest, Coro, Didn’t Come To Play – Azu Ishiekwene
Azu Ishiekwene It’s true that Coronavirus is not among the top five most deadly diseases in Africa today. But it’s also correct that at this time, we know far less about the COVID-19 pandemic than we know about malaria, diarrhoeal diseases, Ischaemic heart diseases, meningitis, tuberculosis, or HIV/AIDS. Yet, we’re fooling around with COVID-19 and…
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Bidding year 2020 goodbye while keeping its bag of lessons -Ozioma Onyenweaku
By Ozioma Onyenweaku The Year 2020 was embraced with a lot of enthusiasm. We looked up to it with great hopes and aspiration. Then news started filtering in of a certain virus and illness from one country. No problem; we are used to the diseases springing up here and now. Alas! This turned out to…
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Chico Ejiro: One last journey by a content creator, By Okoh Aihe
By Okoh Aihe There was one appellation I could never call him, even grudgingly, Mr Prolific. But that never adulterated my respect for him. Mr Chico Ejiro who exited the stage on Christmas day morning was a movie maker of note, a guy with a mission which, as it has turned out now, had little…
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COVID-19, Bill Gates and the Family, By Sonnie Ekwowusi
By Sonnie Ekwowusi “Stay-safe, Stay-at-home”, “Stay away from COVID-19 by staying-at-home”. These coronavirus catchphrases and other similar ones constantly dominate the socio-political space all over the world today. They also underline the importance of the family institution as a fundamental pillar of society. They further illustrate that despite the role of government in nation building…