Category: Editor’s Pick
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Infidelity: Enduring Agony of Spousal Betrayal, By Michael West
By Michael West It is not every broken heart that can easily be mended. In fact, some may never be fixed and refuse to heal because of the quantum of emotional damage and hurt they went through. How do you console a man whose “faithful” wife voluntarily confessed to him that she slept…
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Will a Biden Administration Put Smiles on Africa?, By Tony Iyare
What does the victory of the more urbane Joseph Robinette Biden Jnr hold for Africa? Will the continent elicit a better deal from his incoming administration than the “shithole” perception of a garrulous Donald Trump? Is there some glimmer of hope, that the new American government, with Kamala Momala Harris, an African American as…
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From pandemic to pandemonium: Expected spike in mental illness – 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…
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Technology will punish you, By Okoh Aihe
By Okoh Aihe The title of this piece shouldn’t be insulting. It’s obviously not an invective because the fellow I am taking a ride in his Uber car has no reason to be rude to me. Quite a jolly good fellow, he was only trying to explain things to me, taking it that I am…
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This house, Nigeria, May collapse, and for many reasons – Godwin Etakibuebu
By Godwin Etakibuebu – Still on the Nigeria Police Force narrative. Last week, l commenced the narration of the Nigeria Police Force – albeit bringing the story from the very beginning of the Force’s creation; called Consular Constabulary then, in 1861. I put before the public domain of the Nigerian People; a people seeking for…
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The imperative of local vigilance and protection, By Chido Nwakanma
The fallouts of the END SARS protests and its disastrous aftermath will stay with Southern Nigeria for a long while. What happens and how quickly each city and state rebuild will depend on the strategic capability and responsiveness of their governments. It is a race that will speak to organisation, responsiveness and capacity to execute.…
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USA Elections 2020: Lessons For INEC And Nigerian Electorate, By Magnus onyibe
By Magnus onyibe. Two things that distinguish the November 3, 2020 general elections in the USA from the previous ones are the mail-in voting and early-voting which saw former USA Vice President and the candidate of the Democratic Party, Joe Biden polling about 75 million votes, (and still counting) while the incumbent President, Donald Trump…
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The rise and fall of Donald Trump, By Hope Eghagha
The rise and fall of Donald Trump Outgoing President Donald John Trump had the good world made for him. By inherited wealth and a rambunctious if erratic and eccentric personality. He fitted into the world, almost perfectly. When I read Mary Trump’s (Donald Trump’s niece) account of the dysfunctional Trump family in her book Too…
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Way Forward: EndSARS Start Prosecuting Police, By Dele Sobowale
“It is unthinkable that wisdom should ever be popular.” Goethe, 1749-1832, VANGUARD BOOK OF QUOTATIONS, VBQ, 275. As usual, I find myself writing a proposal to the leaders of our country – with a dire prediction attached. Invariably, the advice is ignored and I get to write another article saying “I told you so.” Despite…
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2023: Devolving power to resolve ‘restructuring’, By Ehichioya Ezomon
By Ehichioya Ezomon Like a balloon that refuses to stay under water, restructuring of the polity, either via a brand-new constitution or reworking of the amended 1999 Constitution, has remained on the burner. Most Nigerians agree that the constitution, a product of Military decrees, is flawed, starting from its Preamble that falsely claims, “We the…