Category: Editor’s Pick
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TNG Sunday delight: How Nigerians now celebrate living aged parents instead of dead parents
By Emman Ovuakporie There is a new ‘craze’ in Nigeria particularly among Christian faithful’s that it is better to celebrate the living rather than celebrating the dead. TheNewsGuru.com, (TNG) two Sundays ago dug into this new strong belief’ of celebrating aged parents rather than spending a fortune for burial ceremonies. Recently, a popular pastor joined…
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Paradox of Leadership, Incurable Elites and Ethnocentric Fantasies – Samuel Orovwuje
By Samuel Akpobome Orovwuje “The way to right the wrong is to turn the light of truth upon them.” – Ida B.Wells- Barnett The year 2021 should be an introspective one for all Nigerians as the existential soul of the nation is being tried by political and bureaucratic elite actions and inactions. It is hard…
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Sam Omatseye: 60 gun-salute to the literary General – Louis Odion
By Louis Odion, FNGE Back in the 90s, we used to time each of his literary parturitions, the way a sprinter’s dash on the track to the finish-line is scored. The digital age hadn’t yet fully dawned in newsrooms in this corner of the earth then. So, it was still largely an intense communion between…
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Syrians deserve peace after 10-year proxy war, By Owei Lakemfa
By Owei Lakemfa. TEN years ago, the ‘Arab Spring’ was on. Repressed peoples rose to challenge entrenched establishment, or so it was thought. First, the protests mainly affected Africa having started in Tunisia, burning through Egypt and Libya. Meanwhile, the repressive and monarchical Gulf states, except Bahrain, were left untouched. The flames in Bahrain…
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Monguno Is Damned In Translation – Azu Ishiekwene
Azu Ishiekwene Last week, Nigeria’s National Security Adviser, Mohammed Babagana Monguno, stripped the government bare in public only to try hiding the ugly sight with fig leaves shortly after. The pathetic damage control didn’t work. Monguno, a retired major general, told the BBC Hausa service in an interview that billions of naira voted…
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Single Ladies and Challenges of Vulnerability, By Michael West
By Michael West The waiting period of single adults for marriage, especially women, is not funny at all. It is a season of anxiety and desperation for many of them. The irony of life is that while those who are yet to marry pray, fast and do ‘packaging’ to attract suitors, some of…
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USSD: What happens to anarchy deferred?, Okoh Aihe
Okoh Aihe On this bright Monday morning, as I put my materials together for this Wednesday column, the Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, Dr Isa Pantami, is holding a crisis meeting with the various stakeholders of the telecommunications industry in trying to ward off a USSD misunderstanding that is threatening to obscure most of…
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Stopping the elites from replacing Nigeria, By Owei Lakemfa
By Owei Lakemfa I leapt for joy last week. News about Nigeria is usually depressing. But this one was elating. I had in my column titled: ‘A country led by the blind and deaf ’ highlighted the case of 14-year-old Habiba Gwaram, a student of Government Girls Secondary School, Jangebe, Zamfara State. On February…
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Rise of politics, fall of reason, By Dakuku Peterside
By Dakuku Peterside In a constitutional democracy, politics is the only legitimate route to governance. And the primary role of government is to provide security, the legal and social framework for economic enterprise, provide public goods and services, social welfare and maintain law and order. Politics is synonymous with competition. And the competitors…
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Sheikh Gumi and the holy bandits of Zamfara- Hope Eghagha
Three odd weeks or so ago, the media went wild with all shades of wickedly frivolous reactions to the inanely profound submission by the highly cerebral, knowledgeable, immensely nationalistic, and revered Sheikh, His Holiness Mallam Ahmad Gumi, negotiator-par-excellence on banditry. Sheikh Gumi, as we know, is an Islamic scholar with an international reach whose word…