The issue of ghost workers has become the bane and a recurring decimal of the Nigerian civil service, and it appears that there is no concrete mechanism in place to …
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On January 19th this year the world was served a horrific photographic menu of scores of human bodies found floating on Ezu River in Amansea community of Anambra State. When …
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Orji likes the gospel of division. He has been governing as one man who does not want to see the good in Abia State, because he lacks patriotism in every …
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Chief Obafemi Awolowo successfully raised political, economic and legal discourss to intellectual levels in Nigeria. Through international conferences, both in Nigeria and abroad, Awo’s political thoughts are subjects of academic …
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Chief Obafemi Awolowo successfully raised political, economic and legal discourss to intellectual levels in Nigeria. Through international conferences, both in Nigeria and abroad, Awo’s political thoughts are subjects of academic …
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The relationship between the president and the governors has not been very cordial. During the burial of his younger brother last year in Bayelsa, the governors did not show up…
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It would be very absurd to use the word ‘mess’ to characterize the government in Abia, but we can use the word…
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Politicians live a life of noisy desperation. It is all about how to outsmart, outwit and oust any contrary opposition. Sometimes, what they term as opposition is not opposition in …
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The Nigerian Judiciary should be reminded that it is setting a dangerous precedent. If our justice system continues to give such miserly prison terms to these unrepentant and conscienceless rogues …
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Response to Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani: In Nigeria, You're Either Somebody or Nobody
by Mary Shorunby Mary ShorunA somebody-nobody mind-set is at the root of corruption and underdevelopment in Nigeria. But this mindset is not necessarily birthed out of a househelp–family relationship. It stems from a personal …
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In leadership, you do not expect the leader to be championing the cause of others other than those he or she was elected to head or spearhead. In my estimation, …
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The First Lady lying comatose and breathless must have conjured the image of home without her imposing presence, her husband and her ‘rivals’; her children and above all the millions …
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Umeh reminds me of how people in our country talk about religion so much, but hurl the word Karma around nonchalantly, as if it belongs to the Traditional Believers they …
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Until recently, public outcries that government agencies have been mismanaging the revenues they generated have been received as fallacious. And because most past legislative investigations into these allegations have ended …
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Silence is not always the best response to a fool, so that he or she does not continue to wallow in abject foolishness, because fools don’t find the truth behind …
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Nigeria, the conquering African soccer Champions, seriously needs a ‘Moses’ to deliver her from self-inflicted national malaise, a ‘Moses’ to heal her of the wounds inflicted on her by combined …