Tag: Metaphor
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CROWD FOR HIRE: 2023 campaign rallies as a metaphor – By Dakuku Peterside
The theatricals for winning the hearts and minds of the voters are all around us. The perceptual game of showing strength in the number of supporters is an age long effective game plan for the parties, and it is one strategy that cuts across all parties. All political parties are outdoing themselves in winning the…
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Metaphor of the Leaning Tower – By Chidi Amuta
The cry is getting louder that the Nigerian state is about to fail. In the attractive parlance of some foreign reporter, the pessimists insist that the Nigerian house is about to fall. Not quite, I say. The note of perennial pessimism is merely a way of speaking, a cross generational refrain. It is not new.…
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Has Niger Delta missed the boat?, AKS as Metaphor II, By Dele Sobowale
“Opportunity lost can never be regained.” In the good old days, pupils in public primary schools received a strong dose of folks wisdom along with their lessons in English. My all time favourite teacher – Mr Udoh – who shaped my life at St Peter’s Primary School, Faji, Lagos, was responsible for drumming that piece…
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Shoprite as metaphor for AfCFTA, By Henry Boyo
By Henry Boyo The South Africa President, Cyril Ramaphosa, was in Abuja earlier, this month (July 2018), to participate in the 25th anniversary and annual General meeting of the African Export Import Bank (Afreximbank). Ramaphosa, used the opportunity to call on Nigeria, not to delay signing the agreement for the African Continental Free Trade…