The tour was scheduled for Sunday, August 13, 2017, between 1:00 and 4:00 p.m., directed by Ms. Jeanne Fogle, a fourth-generation Washington and Certified Master Tour Guide, local historian, adjunct …
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When Ibrahim Magu, Acting Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), declared that Senator Dino Melaye was once a corruption fighter, many of us considered the revelation bizarre. …
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The symbolic event of Friday, May 11, 2017, had occupied my mind for some time: the day multitudes of Nigerian political heavyweights and pretenders, with their allies in the business …
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Lexicographers have their ways with terminologies. What, for instance, is the relationship between a wake of vultures and a wake in fluid dynamics? Whereas a wake of vultures refers to …
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On Wednesday, 12th April 2017, operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), acting on a tip-off, found $43,449,947, £27,800 and N23,218,000 hidden inside an apartment – House 6, …
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The banalisation of senatorial business is taking its toll on the Nigerian Senate, a body of venerable, distinguished statesmen and women that seems to have become a useful subject for …
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My dictionary characterises the term intelligence as the ability to learn or understand things or to deal with new or difficult situations. I have a problem with this definition; for, …
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We may not have a device for assessing the effectiveness or otherwise of the Senate of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, but — trying to characterize it in the mould …
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Preamble: Case No.1 President Mohammadu Buhari appointed Ibrahim Magu the acting Chairman of the commission, and sent his name to the Senate for confirmation way back in December 2016. But …
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I have always had my suspicion about that class-influenced submission that people who grow up in poor environments develop built-in senses of deprivation that may cause them to steal even …
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The gecko is one animal that can automize itself. It sheds its skin and changes its teeth at regular intervals. For its survival, it can shed off its tail. The …
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Greed is not native or peculiarto humanity. Biologists have published many accounts about greedy animals. The tiger shark, the blue whale, the pig and the hyena are known for their …
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Animals teach us much about ourselves. So many human behavioural traits can be explained by a study of the behaviour of certain animals. Take, for example, the art of deception, …
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Against many opinion polls and predictions by political and economic surveyors, the predatory American businessman and reality television star, Donald John Trump, won the Tuesday, November 8, 2016 American presidential …
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In his bestselling book, The Righteous Mind: Why Good People are Divided by Politics and Religion (2012), the American social and moral psychologist, Jonathan Haidt, who is presently a professor …
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Some ten years ago, in January 2006, I wrote, in one of my newspaper columns,‘A Season’s Toast to ‘that average-sized man with the heart of a lion and the deeds …