On Thursday, I was on the phone with a friend who intimated me of the gory details about the security situation in Owerri, the Imo State capital. She narrated at…
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Precisely seven years ago, the APC came into power amid pomp, pageantry and great expectations. Nigerians believed that at last, we have gotten a crop of leaders that would take…
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The impact of Nollywood on Nigerian youths has been a thing of concern and uneasiness to me, especially with the recent news of a 23-year- old young man arrested for…
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If you are to ask the average Nigerian today about their plans in the next five years or thereabout, it is almost certain that many, if not all of them,…
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It was a roll call of Nigeria’s most powerful political elites during the wedding of Yusuf Buhari, son of Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari, to the daughter of the Emir of…
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Today, youths learn mostly from the entertainment industry and they model their lives after their favorite artistes. Unfortunately, some of the current artistes in the entertainment industry do not possess…
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According to the most recent ranking of universities by Webometrics, no Nigerian university is in the top 1,000 globally and amongst the first 10 in Africa. The highest ranked Nigerian…
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Nigeria’s march to becoming a country can be attributed to British colonial constitutional engineering, which sought to establish it’s own extractive structures and institutions to drive it’s economic interests. Modern…
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Insecurity has become rife in Nigeria. From the north to the south, life has become nasty, brutish, and short. Lately, Nigeria has been enmeshed in a firebox of insecurity leading…
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Since 1999, when Nigeria returned to democratic governance following years of military rule, no woman has been elected as president, vice president or governor in any of the country’s 36…
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Sections 38 and 39 of the Federal Republic of Nigeria’s Constitution respectively guarantee the rights of citizens to freedom of thought, conscience and religion – including the freedom to change…
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That the natural world is degraded from what it once was is indisputable. Our planet’s climate has constantly been changing over geological time, with significant fluctuations of global average temperatures.…
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Since water covers a vast majority of the Earth, it could be hard to imagine how it could ever be in short supply. However, freshwater – the stuff we drink,…
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Any discourse on African development, whether from the economic, political, religious, scientific or philosophical perspective would always provide an exciting challenge and, in fact, an amazing curiosity. It is a…
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The banning of religious clothing and symbols in public schools is an ongoing and contentious issue in education, that has generated a great deal of national controversy. The Islamic headscarf,…
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Man: You dey go Maryland? Keke Driver: Make we dey go. Man: How much? Keke Driver: (Scans him and realizes he is new to the city): #1,500. Teacher to Students:…
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