Category: Editor’s Pick
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Telecoms and security of lives: Time for desperate measures – Okoh Aihe
By Okoh Aihe When we got into the first part of Kogi State, the young man behind me in the bus, who had engaged his colleagues in animated discussions all the way from Benin, tried to find out our location. Told that we were in Okene, he became a psychotic wreck and flew into…
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Massacres do not necessarily produce corpses – Owei Lakemfa
By Owei Lakemfa. THERE is a sickening campaign by some unfeeling persons that those who claim there were killings at the Lekki Tollgate on October 20, 2020 or are searching for missing loved ones who went to the protests, should produce the corpses. To this group, unless corpses are produced, there could not have been…
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The South-south demand on the Federal Government- Hope O’Rukevbe Eghagha
Hope Eghagha On 17th November, a meeting was scheduled in Port-Harcourt between political, social and cultural leaders of the beleaguered South-south region and the presidency was botched at the last minute because the delegation had to attend an ‘emergency security meeting’, in Abuja. Television footage showed elegantly dressed elderly traditional rulers and state governors of…
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Wither Home? Matters Arising – Chris Anyokwu
By Chris Anyokwu Have you ever heard the song: ‘East or West/Home is the best’? Although the short minuscule poem- song appears to scramble the iambic-dactylic metrical pattern the lyrical joyfulness, the mellifluousness of its rhyme scheme more than makes up for such niggling prosodic deviance: ‘west’ and ‘best’ intimate and bracingly approximate rest (read:…
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Recession 2020: The present is bad, future bleak – Dele Sobowale
By Dele Sobowale By now every Nigerian knows the truth. Nigeria is in a recession. The dreadful result was summarised for us this way in PUNCH, November 22, 2020. “The NBS, in its Gross Domestic Product report for Q3, said the GDP, the broad measure of economic prosperity, fell by 3.62 per cent in the…
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Believing in the Lord Jesus Christ – Femi Aribisala
By Femi Aribisala The Jews asked Jesus: “What shall we do, that we may work the works of God?” He said to them: “This is the work of God, that you believe in him whom he sent.” (John 6:28-29). Jesus is the Saviour therefore, undoubtedly, belief in Jesus is fundamental to salvation. Often, when people…
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Faeces and your health – Francis Ewherido
By Francis Ewherido November 19 was World Toilet Day. Of an estimated 673 million people worldwide, who still practice open defecation, about 47 million of them are in Nigeria! Tragically, this makes Nigeria the number one country with the highest number of people who practice open defecation. In terms of Percentage, however, countries like Chad,…
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Nigerians: Groping towards a post-pandemic world – Owei Lakemfa
By Owei Lakemfa. INTELLECTUALS, diplomats, social activists, trade unionists and international relations experts across the country gathered in Abuja on Wednesday, November 25, 2020, to dissect the state of Nigerians under COVID-19 as they trudge towards a post-pandemic world. It was an occasion to mark the 10th anniversary of the Society for International Relations Awareness,…
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White evangelicals aggressive support for Trump had nothing to do with Christian values, but rather white fragility – Hamilton Odunze
By Hamilton Odunze When Joseph R. Biden, the president-elect of the United States, announced that he would be running for office, he told the world that the battle would be for the soul of America. On November 3, the world watched as the American people brought that battle to its climax. They elected Joe Biden…
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We are in for a spike in mental ill-health – Ozioma Onyenweaku
By Ozioma Onyenweaku I have previously written on the level of depression particularly among women and the young ones in Nigeria. We had, among many others, the case of Ms Adisa that drowned her baby in a bucket of water and reported herself to the police in a manner and fashion of one expecting a…