Category: Editor’s Pick
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The Father Kukah missile – Hope O’Rukevbe Eghagha
It was meant to be a Yuletide message. A message of peace in honour of the Prince of Peace. Yet, in a land where there is no peace, where ‘blood toucheth blood’, a priest cannot, should not send vacuous messages in the name of peace. A true priest has an obligation both to God and…
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2023: APC-PDP ‘alliance’ on Igbo president, By Ehichioya Ezomon
By Ehichioya Ezomon The election of Prof. George Obiozor as President-General of Ohanaeze Ndigbo comes at an opportune moment, as leaders of the South-East attempt a united front for the presidency in 2023. The choice of Obiozor, a former Nigerian ambassador to the United States, followed a historic political concave in Abia State centred on…
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How Will Africa Remember Donald Trump? Here Is How – Azu Ishiekwene
Azu Ishiekwene US President Donald Trump may have lost re-election but he would be escorted out of the White House on Tuesday night with a special prize: Africa’s worst friend in modern times. Not that it matters to Trump one way or the other. We can only hope that after four years of spite,…
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For SIM/NIN Registration, A Little Appeal, By Okoh Aihe
By Okoh Aihe Nothing could have made it more expedient than the lives that would be involved. And there are so many. Looking at the images on television now, looking at pictures in the newspapers, of thousands of people swirling in desperation to do a comprehensive registration of their phones by syncing the numbers with…
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Coup in The Capitol Hill and the Divided States of America – Magnus Onyibe
By Magnus Onyibe The strange events that reached the crescendo on 6 January , in the country formerly known as the United States of America , USA , which with heavy heart l’m reluctantly rechristening , the Divided States of America, DSA, are indeed unprecedented and epochal , but fortunately not apocalyptic. That’s because at…
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The Spirit of a New Year – Hope O’Rukevbe Eghagha
Hope O’Rukevbe Eghagha There is a sense in which a new year comes with its own spirit, a new spirit, different from the spirit of the outgoing year. That is, a new year is seen as a break with the past, especially if the previous year was bad. Filled with incidents that we would rather…
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North’s ‘restructuring’ as gambit for 2023, By Ehichioya Ezomon
By Ehichioya Ezomon The “restructuring day” appears to break in Northern Nigeria, thanks to a vocal protagonist of reordering of the prevailing system, and convener of Northern Elders’ Forum (NEF), Prof. Ango Abdullahi. In a no-holds-barred interview with Vanguard, Abdullahi, a former Vice Chancellor of the Ahmadu Bello University (ABU), Zaria, calls for a return…
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Democracy’s dark festivity in Washington – Chidi Amuta
Chidi Amuta The world has been aflame this week with expressions of consternation over last Wednesday’s political drama in Washington. The images of Donald Trump’s mob of irate supporters breaching the perimeters to storm the Capitol in Washington amounted to a wild desecration of the prime holy place of democracy. By motivating and inspiring this…
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NIMASA – A metaphor for why Nigerian governments fail – Dele Sobowale
By Dele Sobowale “DELTA: N87b fraud rocks construction of Maritime University Okerenkoko.” Before we go forward on this startling revelation about the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency, NIMASA, under former President Jonathan, who I understand is nursing ambitions to re-contest for the office, please remember that less than that amount has kept our universities…
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Duplicitous British judiciary, revengeful American bully and unbowed Assange, By Owei Lakemfa
By Owei Lakemfa IT was a marvel that WikiLeaks founder, Julian Assange, was still standing on his feet this Monday, January 4, 2021 as the British courts stopped his extradition to the United States, US, where he is already guilty even before making a plea. WikiLeaks has been firing from all cylinders propelling a…