Category: Editor’s Pick
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When justice flees the judiciary, the country dies a little – Owei Lakemfa
By Owei Lakemfa. THE immediate-past Chief Justice of Nigeria, CJN, Justice Walter Samuel Nkanu Onnoghen, on December 22, 2020, turned 70. It was less an occasion for celebration and more of lamentation. On this date that should have marked his retirement, his thoughts were fixated on that January 26, 2019 date he was yanked from…
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From First To Third World:The USA Trump Would Bequeath To Biden – Magnus Onyibe
By Magnus Onyibe. When Donald J Trump’s tumultuous presidency ends on 20January 2021, he would be handing over to president elect, Joseph R Biden, a United States of America, USA, that has degenerated from first to third world. That is remarkable because, the trend has always been for a country to move from third to…
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The Incoming Biden Presidency: Some Lessons for Nigeria – Chris Anyokwu
By Chris Anyokwu The United States of America has always prided herself as “The City on a Hill”; “God’s Own Country”, the Land of the Brave and Free. The Haven of opportunity. All of this, truth be told, is the very basis of the immensely popular slogan of the “American Dream” or, the less-popular term:…
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For those I love Igbobi College 1958-62/64 set – Dele sobowale
Dele Sobowale “Old friends are better than new…” – especially when you look back to the best years of life. Few of us would have recognised it then. None was wise enough to look far forward to observe what was happening to men 70, or even 80 years old. There were very few in the…
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Kankara, conspiracy theories and 2023 scheming, By Ehichioya Ezomon
By Ehichioya Ezomon Were it an unserious issue, it would’ve been a case of different strokes for different folks, for the seeming insensitive disposition of politicians to the Kankara tragedy of the penultimate week. Politicians, disesteeming Nigerians’ lives when scheming for elective positions, used the period of seizure of students of the Government Science Secondary…
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The state of the Nigerian economy – Dele Sobowale
Dele Sobowale “Our responsibility, I said, is to secure this country for all the citizens to do their businesses without any problems. We haven’t achieved that yet. …We have a lot of work ahead of us..” President Buhari in NTA interview, December 2020. The question most frequently asked of me in my almost 30 years…
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No more the war of the sexes – Owei Lakemfa
By Owei Lakemfa. THE Hungarian Parliament in Central Europe on Tuesday, December 15, 2020 made a startling discovery that: “The mother is a woman, the father is a man.” This is an open secret we in Africa have known for thousands of years. It took 134 Members of the Hungarian Parliament to ratify this despite…
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What Happened To Akufo-Addo? Azu Ishiekwene
Azu Ishiekwene If we could cast a vote in the December 8 presidential election in Ghana, President Nana Akufo-Addo, would have won re-election by miles. Nigerians love him to bits. He talks a good game. In the first two years or more of his presidency, I remember a number of videos shared with me on…
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Sad tales from a mission school – Francis Ewherido
By Francis Ewherido Merry Christmas to you, although the news coming out of Deeper Life High School in Akwa Ibom is not merry. Earlier in the week, the news broke of an 11-year-old male student of the school, who was molested and maltreated by senior students. The principal had allegedly moved the victim from a…
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Covid at Xmas: Humanity as Pawn, By Michael West
By Michael West Whoever is updated with information, politics, economy and contraption of Covid-19 will know that the foretold and orchestrated second wave of the virus will be prevalent at Christmas. I described it as ‘orchestrated’ because it is contained in the strategy document of Rockefella Foundation which states that in the last two months…