Category: Editor’s Pick
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Supreme Court’s Judgment on Igbo female child’s right to inheritance: Why are the females not celebrating? – Ozioma Onyenweaku
Ozioma Onyenweaku It had been a long standing tradition of the Igbos that a female child was not entitled to inherit from her father’s property. The reason had always been that as a woman she was married or would be married into another family; ‘let her go to her husband’s house that’s where her inheritance…
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Trump’s Desperation and the US Electoral College, By Carl Umegboro
By Carl Umegboro The 45th President of the United States of America, Donald J. Trump has not only shocked the world but demonstrated that upright and adverse characters exist across-the-board. Prior to the recent US Presidential election, many, particularly Africans where ‘do-or-die’ politics and hostility after a loss thrive irrepressibly had believed that all white…
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The route to 40m NINS and SIMS in 14 days, Chido Nwakanma
Three of the four GSM service providers lead the list of 203 firms the Nigerian Identity Management Commission appointed 16 December as Data Capture Agents to assist it with the registration of Nigerians into the identity database. It came on the commencement of a peremptory two-week deadline for citizens wishing to continue using their phone…
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For communications, another superfluous directive, By Okoh Aihe
By Okoh Aihe How very ludicrous! Referring to the happenings in the telecommunications industry on Monday morning, a friend drew my attention to Our Husband Has Gone Mad Again, a play written by Prof. Ola Rotimi of blessed memory. It is not just that the husband is mad but that he had been mad before…
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Religious Insurgency & Failing Leadership Of Nigeria: A Time For Dialogue, By Magnus Onyibe
By Magnus Onyibe In desperate search for how to get rid of the demon strafing our country, Nigeria, I recently, re-read the epic novel by the renown author, Chinua Achebe, “The Trouble With Nigeria” Reading through the book the first time , l saw that the conclusion is that the trouble with Nigeria is the…
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Buba Galadima: Between statesmanship and pretence – Owei Lakemfa
By Owei Lakemfa. An old friend and fellow journalist, Ya’u Shehu Darazo called me in 2006 asking if I could arrange a meeting between former Head of State, retired General Muhammadu Buhari and the leadership of the Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC. Buhari who was running in the 2007 Presidential elections, was accompanied to the meeting…
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Nigeria: What is in a name? – Hope Eghagah
By Hope Eghagah American literary scholar and theorist of poetry, Harold Bloom in one of his magnum opuses, entitled The Western Canon credits William Shakespeare with being the single incarnation of the genius of the West, his work covering virtually all the major and minor genres and sub-genres of literature. As a matter of fact,…
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From Dapchi to Kankara: ‘Slap’ on Buhari’s face, By Ehichioya Ezomon
By Ehichioya Ezomon The title of a Shakespeare play, “All’s well that ends well,” aptly captures the sigh of relief that trails the December 17, 2020, safe return of 340 students of the Government Science Secondary School (GSSS), Kankara, Katsina State, North-West of Nigeria. Yes, “sigh of relief,” and not “excitement” that would normally pervade…
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Do not be afraid Mary for you have found favour with God, By Stephen Ojapah
Stephen Ojapah Today is the last Sunday in our four week preparations for the great Solemnity of Christmas. Many institutions, parishes and religious congregations have organized some sort of spiritual programs of preparations, in the form of retreats, recollections, sacramental confessions, and some, corporal works of mercy. By feeding the hungry, clothing the naked, and…
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Kankara: A Walk Back from Darkness – Chidi Amuta
Chidi Amuta The boys of Kankara Government Science Secondary School committed no crime known to law in a secular state. Their parents enrolled them in a government boarding school in search of education, knowledge and enlightenment. Like their compatriots in the rest of the country, they all aspired to become great scientists, teachers, doctors and…