Category: Editor’s Pick
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Kindred spirits: Rawlings, Balarabe and Erekat, By Owei Lakemfa
By Owei Lakemfa WHEN the old or those who play the role of elders die in Africa, we do not weep. Rather, we celebrate them because they merely transit from the physical to the pantheon of ancestors who watch over the living. Three elders who led the struggle for a better humanity transited within three…
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Celebrating divorce – Francis Ewherido
By Francis Ewherido Divorce, which is an official dissolution of a marriage, is one of the blights of the marital institution. Very few people go into marriage with the intention to get divorced at some point. That is why people take the vow of “till death do us part” at wedding. Divorce is a sensitive…
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Girls for Girls: Boosting Girls’ Education by teamwork, By Carl Umegboro
By Carl Umegboro Education is one of the most important investments a country can make in its future. It is in the light of this that the Global Partnership for Education (GPE) supports developing countries to ensure that every child receives a quality education. Invariably, education is a powerful agent of change, and improves…
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Infidelity: ‘My Wife Caused It’, By Michael West
By Michael West Not many women, single moms in particular, are sincere and humble enough to admit their need of men or companions in their lives. There are those who even solicit and crave for nexus to potential male partners through friends, colleagues, family members and even patronise online dating sites to get mates.…
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Have a Zoom-ry Christmas, By Chido Nwakanma
In line with the character of the year, 2020 is ending in an unusual tenor. Across the world, there are rising cases of coronavirus infections. Governments are clamping down with new restrictions and movement protocols, including lockdowns stiffer than the first ones in March through June. 2020 has been the year of the lockdown, masks,…
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Understanding Nigeria’s Obsession With Rawlings, By Azu Ishiekwene
Azu Ishiekwene The saying that a prophet is not appreciated at home may well be referring to former Ghanaian president, Jerry Rawlings, who died last Thursday from COVID-19 related complications, three weeks after his mother was buried. Ghana is in seven days of mourning, but Nigeria is crying more than the bereaved. Among Nigeria’s political…
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Tributes to Attah brothers at 82 and 84, By Dele Sobowale
No person was ever honoured for what he received. Honour had been the reward for what he gave. Calvin Coolidge, 30th US President, 1872-1933. VANGUARD BOOK OF QUOTATIONS, VBQ P 94. There are occasions when an incurably lazy person like me is rescued by circumstances divinely appointed. I have always envied my role model, mentor…
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BOOK REVIEW: Up-to-date current affairs on Urhobo nation
Title: UP-TO-DATE CURRENT AFFAIRS ON URHOBO NATION Authored by Assin Godstime Publisher: Digital Books, Benin City. Pages: 108 Year of Publication: first published in April 2019, republished in August 2020. Reviewer: Emmanuel Ogheneochuko Arodovwe Amongst the negative consequences of the colonial experience in Africa, nay Nigeria was the misplaced optimism in the possibility of a…
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Child sexual abuse: The boy child too needs protection – Ozioma Onyenweaku
By Ozioma Onyenweaku When my team and I were on a Speak out campaign to schools, (a program in which we educate and encourage the young ones on the need to speak out about any sexual abuse or harassment) some schools made available only the girls. When I asked one of the teachers why it…
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For communications, a little history and troubling future, By Okoh Aihe
By Okoh Aihe I have a friend, a very funny guy, but he is a repository of records. Dates are at the tip of his fingers and he reels them out to maximum effect. Sometimes I look at him and I try to convince myself that if a majority of us were this good…