Category: Editor’s Pick
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2023: APC’s membership drive and politicians’ antics, By Ehichioya Ezomon
By Ehichioya Ezomon President Muhammadu Buhari was explicit, the other day, in his message to Nigerian youths: The All Progressives Congress is for the grassroots, and the youths should join, own the party, and henceforth ensure the emergence of its leaders. In a virtual meeting with APC youths at the State House, in Abuja, Buhari…
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Solitude: A Ravaging Silent Killer, By Michael West
By Michael West February 19, 2021 People living in solitary and lonely lifestyle are dying daily. The death rate is increasing but silently. Quite a number of such deaths have been recorded in January alone. The situation is worse for those who have attitudinal or relationship issues with their family members and neighbours as…
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FEC returns life to the DSO, By Okoh Aihe
By Okoh Aihe Nigeria is not starved of good people to do us proud. On Monday, Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala demonstrated this in making history as the first African and first woman ever to become the Director General of the World Trade Organization (WTO) to global acclaim. Her first virtual press conference espoused the qualities for…
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Pastoralists And Farmers Conflicts In Nigeria: Time For Fulani Capitalism, Not Herdsmen Terrorism, By Magnus Onyibe
By Magnus Onyibe Nobel laureate, Wole Soyinka’s country home in the forest area of lbadan, Oyo state capital, has reportedly been invaded allegedly by herdsmen. Although the police has denied the invasion of Soyinka’s sanctuary, he has confirmed that the peace of his abode was indeed violated by herdsmen and their cattle herd,but he successfully…
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DNA, faithfulness, and parenting – Hope O’Rukevbe Eghagha
There must be something traumatic about a man going to family or public to declare that the kids whom he had all along assumed were his, are not his biologically because his wife had been unfaithful, had slept with and had been made pregnant by a man (or men) outside her marriage. It is…
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Herders’ menace: Let’s weigh el-Rufai, Ganduje’s proposals, By Ehichioya Ezomon
By Ehichioya Ezomon Are we finally coming to grips with the rampaging activities of bandits/kidnappers prowling the highways and forests across Nigeria, with accompanying deaths and destruction, and occupation of farmlands, communities and states’ forest reserves? The Nigerian Governors Forum (NGF) seems to toe Governors Abdullahi Ganduje and Nasir el-Rufai’s approaches to solving the issue…
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Paternity Fraud: Justice Okorodas on ‘Trial’, By Michael West
By Michael West Rather than receive empathy and consolation for being cheated and betrayed, hard knocks, castigations and reprimands have become the lot of Justice Anthony Okorodas following the public declaration of his marital crisis that bothers on the paternity of his three grown-up children in his failed marriage. The…
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Nigerian Bandits Have Their Cake And Eat It – Azu Ishiekwene
Azu Ishiekwene The fight against terror in Nigeria has been a theatre of the absurd. What began as a tiny spark of itinerant fanatics taking a pledge against western education mutated into a full-fledged non-state army currently ranked as the third deadliest globally. Yet, banditry is another fast-growing franchise. State response has also…
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Interrogating The Soft Landing For Retired Military Service Chiefs And Understanding The Buhari Persona, By Magnus Onyibe
By Magnus Onyibe Given the pattern of events in the past six (6) years of president Muhammadu Buhari’s stewardship as president and Commander-ln-Chief of The Armed Forces of Nigeria, it is easy to conclude that mr president is a Fulani irredentist and an apologist. That’s simply because the media is awash with complaints that most…
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Let the world hear our stories, By Okoh Aihe
By Okoh Aihe Great stories make great content on television, big screen or even mobile terminals. Those who say content is king love good stories, the sort that spike the adrenalin, make it impossible to put down a book or hook you permanently on the screen, large or small, and sometimes become very redeeming…