In Igboland our political elite are completely detached from the suffering of the people. Based in Abuja, Enugu, Lagos, Port Harcourt, Awka or Owerri they partake in the national dispossession …
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Last Monday, Presidents Mbeki, Compaore, Toumani Toure, Nino Viera, Faure Gnasingbe, Yayi Boni assisted the Ivorian President Laurent Gbagbo and Prime Minister Soro Kigbafori in the popular celebration of peace …
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VP Goodluck was over the weekend pontificating on why he did not believe declaring his assets publicly is worthwhile…
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Something of international dimension and significance is happening in Bouake, Cote D’Ivoire Monday…
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That Anenih understands the dynamics and mechanics of power is an understatement. That he is a political survivalist is a statement of fact. ‘Mr Fix It’ is ever in the news. …
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From Paris, France, in 2005 I remember calling my mother in Nigeria and informing her that I had found a ‘wife’, a white French lady I was in love with …
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Stamping corruption out of the Nigerian political landscape can only be possible if EFCC is made to be independent and not answerable to a ‘god’ in Ota…
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Man as an intelligent animal is full of problems and reading his mind is the crux of the matter. Only God can decipher the mind of man full of intrigues…
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Africa being a land of more pain than gain, Cote D’Ivoire has had her fair share of gripping stories that continue to define Africa in the eyes of the wider world, …
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Politics in Nigeria is without principles and ideologies. It is rather a cash-and-carry business-as-usual thing ‘initiating’ and incorporating new members and perpetuating others all year round…
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A time has announced its arrival for President Umar Yar’Adua to be a hero or villain in our obscure search for a stable nationhood. The choice is wholly his!
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The World Wrestling Entertainment is indeed entertaining millions across the world. From the owner of the billion-dollar entertainment company, Vince Mcmahon, to spectators, one sees a lot of glorified junkies …
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Does it really matter much whatever the late Osamuyia had done to warrant such violent eviction from the Spanish space?
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The recent murder of a Nigerian young man Mr Osamuyia Aikpitanhi by the Spanish officials has continued to generate justifiable opprobrium, especially from the large Nigerian Diaspora community…
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It bears emphasizing that Gani is, in the eyes of many, a victim of both impetuosity and ‘senility’. The degeneration of a hitherto great legal mind has struck us, his …