Tag: Dakuku Peterside
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Lessons from the Liz Truss Event – By Dakuku Peterside
“All politics is local” is a popular refrain. However, we cannot deny the interconnected nature of politics. The game of politics is governed by some common unwritten rules which reign supreme in most societies, no matter the form of democracy they practice. Like a mathematical equation, there are a few constants in politics – the…
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Flood, passivity, and a ruined future – By Dakuku Peterside
This year, 2022, the floods seem to have united different parts of the globe. The World Bank report estimates that 1.18 billion people or 23% of the world population, face significant flood risks.
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#NigeriaDecides2023: Campaign promises and the issue of trust – By Dakuku Peterside
Most societies do not trust their politicians, so it is not an anomaly peculiar to Nigeria. Whether it is an advanced democracy or a developing country does not make any difference. For instance, 63% of British people believed their politicians were mainly interested in themselves alone, according to the IPPR think tank poll conducted in…
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Exodus of the next generation; time to be concerned – By Dakuku Peterside
Forced migration and its concomitant enslavement of the African was a blight on the world’s collective conscience between the 1500s and 1800s. The repercussions still reverberate through time to the present . Africans are calling for payment of reparations to their motherland by the European powers to date.
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The burgeoning kidnapping industry – By Dakuku Peterside
Nigeria is a land of mysteries with too many unexplained and unexplainable phenomena. It is inexplicable that it has not secured a place in the Guinness book of records on account of socio-economic mysteries. Mysterious social occurrences defy logic and common sense and happen in everyday national life. One of the mysteries of today’s Nigeria…
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Mystery of crude oil theft – By Dakuku Peterside
Autolycus in Ancient Greek mythology achieved fame and notoriety for being a successful robber and trickster whom no one could catch. He was a source of trouble for the king and the kingdom in Ancient Greece. Autolycus, were it be in today’s Nigeria, would have been a trainee in Nigeria’s crude oil-thieving empire, which is…
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The Nigerian Relevance of Queen Elizabeth – By Dakuku Peterside
A critical chapter in the history of the British empire was closed on Thursday, 8th September 2022, and a new one opened. Queen Elizabeth 11 died at her holiday home in Balmoral castle in Scotland. Her over 70-year-old reign on the British throne meant no monarch reigned longer than her in more than a thousand…
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Mikhail Gorbachev, Nigeria, and hard choices – By Dakuku Peterside
A significant chapter of global history was closed on 30th August 2022. On that day, an equally substantive champion of reforms passed and bequeathed us a mixed assessment of his contribution to the new world order. Mikhail Gorbachev is that man. He was not alone in this powerful club. His best-known contemporaries were Ronald Regan…
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Gov Wike countered on how Rivers people’ll vote in 2023
A chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Rivers State, Dr Dakuku Peterside has countered the State Governor Nyesom Wike after saying that he [Wike] will tell people of the State who to vote for in the 2023 general elections in due course.
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A nation in chains – By Dakuku Peterside
Something remarkable happened last week at the 2022 Nigeria Bar Association( NBA)conference in Lagos. However, social media was awash with mundane, trivial, irrelevant, and cosmetic portrayals and representations of the Vice-Presidential candidate of APC at that event. They focussed on the appropriateness, type, and size of the shoe the ebullient Senator Kashim Shettima wore and…