Category: Editor’s Pick
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For broadcasting, truth troubled by the times – Okoh Aihe
By Okoh Aihe The snake is not a likeable creep. Especially if you have had a brush with its venomous danger as I have, twice in my life and nearly got finished off at the second encounter, you have no reason to like the snake at all, and once you smell the danger from a…
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Gov. Dave Umahi’s Defection And The Unfolding Game of Political Musical Chairs, By Magnus Onyibe
By Magnus onyibe What started as an act of defiance by former senate president, Ken Nnamani in 2016 when he withdrew his membership of PDP, before joining the APC in 2017, and an unusual step taken in 2016 by Orji Uzo Kalu, former governor of Abia state , when he exited APGA for the APC…
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John Dubre: Nigerian who put fear in oil majors, By Owei Lakemfa
By Owei Lakemfa THE story of Labour leader, John Enas Dubre, and the transnational oil corporations operating in Nigeria, reminds me of the temptation of Jesus Christ. There were 19 unions in the oil and gas industry before they were merged in 1977 into a mega industrial union called the National Union of Petroleum…
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Onitsha Christians for Trump and matters arising, By Chido Nwakanma
THE PUBLIC SPHERE with Chido Nwakanma The intrepidity of Onitsha came to the fore on 25 October as the city inserted itself forcefully into the 3 November general elections a world away in the United States of America. Most Reverend Professor Daddy Hezekiah led his flock in a rally and march around Onitsha city, hailing…
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Beyond Dreams: Okotie and Succession crisis in Celestial Church of Christ, By Hope O’Rukevbe Eghagha
by Hope O’Rukevbe Eghagha The calm, often ebullient and rather confident yet humble (Dr) Wisdom Okotie of Christ the King Miracle Church based in Tulsa, Oklahoma United States of America contends in his book Beyond Dreams, Prophecies and Visions, that he is the rightful, spirit-filled, anointed, and Holy Spirit-chosen successor to the Founder and…
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2023: PDP’s furore over Umahi’s defection to APC, By Ehichioya Ezomon
By Ehichioya Ezomon Among the fundamental rights guarantied in section 40 of the amended 1999 Constitution is the entitlement of every Nigerian “to assemble freely and associate with other persons, and in particular, he may form or belong to any political party, trade union or other association for the protection of his interests…” But the…
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Open letter to CBN governor minister of agriculture – Dele Sobowale
Dele Sobowale “Dr, you once said to me that I have people like you to campaign for me and to canvass my ideas. I sincerely thank you and wish to take further advantage of it. The CBN has put in place a number of Agric Intervention Funds. Very commendable. Because of COVID-19 they reduced the…
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Africa Failing Again – Chidi Amuta
Chidi Amuta In the decade leading up to 2010- 2015, global discourse on Africa’s development prospects adopted a new mantra: Africa Rising. Major influential media echoed it and the message went to major investors, increasing the interest and appetite of Africa’s traditional partners while luring new ones to discover what used to be the ‘dark…
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Walking by faith and not by sight (1) – Femi Aribisala
By Femi Aribisala Paul says: “We walk by faith, not by sight.” (2 Corinthians 5:7). He is not telling us how we should walk. He is telling us how we walk. This is like telling a boy that we don’t walk with our hands. We walk with our feet. Believers walk by faith. Those who…
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The Skeleton of the King, By Stephen Ojapah
STEPHEN OJAPAH MSP Today Catholics all over the world celebrate the Solemnity of Christ the Universal King. This feast marks the end of the liturgical cycle. And from next week, we will be turning a new leaf into another, of the church’s liturgical year. For the sake of my readers who are not Catholics. Let…