That Nigeria is a lawless country is an under-statement. And that ‘anything-goes’ is the order of the day is also a true statement. Our potentially-great nation has major socio-political problems …
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The fingertip of Esau, the voice of Jacob touched the internet again a few days ago, via those whose stock in national or international trade is to hear the sudden …
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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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Education is strategically vital to the development and greatness of any nation. It remains the key to unlocking the socio-economic potentials of any society. When the educational priority is gotten …
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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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This is the time to begin to clamor for restructuring of Nigeria. The real Igbo man or woman should be rallied around to be president of Nigeria in the 2019 …
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At 74 Muhammadu Buhari is the President and Commander-in-Chief of the Nigerian Armed Forces. He came to power in May 2015 after winning a landmark presidential poll of the same …
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“Let us not seek the Republican answer or the Democratic answer, but the right answer. Let us not seek to fix the blame for the past. Let us accept our …
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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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Apostle Johnson Suleman, the Overseer of the Omega Fire Ministries Worldwide, is a man in the eye of the storm lately. He first came to national limelight not because he was …
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“A nation that celebrates mediocrity in place of meritocracy is sure to be in perpetual state of economic and political quagmire.” – Yahaya Balogun Why Nigeria is still standing is …
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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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If one can survive in Nigeria, one can survive in any other part of the continent. That explains the reason why Nigerians are fast taking over world economies on individual …
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Seriously, the committee of elders in Kogi West, Kogi State, Nigeria should convey an emergency meeting. This crucial meeting must earnestly bring to bear the idiocy of their son. The …
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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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I have written many times on a singularity, or perhaps we should call it a genetic aberration or bane of development and progress in our dear country – it is …