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Sabella Ogbobode Abidde

Sabella Ogbobode Abidde

Please, do not ask me about religion. I get the evil look every time I tell people I am an agnostic who teeters on atheism. My world resolves around ethics and the rule of law. That’s it. I have no use for religion: religious convictions are not part of my existence -- the laws of man are good enough for me. I have lived in several cities: Seattle, Miami, Norman, Minneapolis-Saint Paul, Saint Cloud, the District of Columbia, Houston, and Mankato. I am not sure where I am going to live next. And I have never really had a profession, only jobs: been a cook, a dishwasher, a civil servant, house cleaner, university instructor and researcher and so on and so forth. Every so often I get questions concerning the role and place of the African woman. Well, I don’t know; at least not with any certainty. What seems to work best is when both partners work as a team: cooperate, coordinate and collaborate their marital efforts. And they should be mindful of the insidious effect of modernization on the African family.

  • The Niger Delta: The Impending Military Assault

    by Sabella Ogbobode Abidde September 15, 2009
    by Sabella Ogbobode Abidde

    Historically, citizens of the Niger Delta have been a thorn on the flesh of pre and post-colonial Nigerian governments. Not a people to suffer injustice in silence, they have a …

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  • The Niger Delta Amnesty Program…What’s Next?

    by Sabella Ogbobode Abidde September 7, 2009
    by Sabella Ogbobode Abidde

    What manner of peace is Dr. Koripamo-Agary talking about? What is peace and at what price is the Yar’Adua government seeking it? Is the government ready to be sincere and …

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  • Africans and the Exiled Life

    by Sabella Ogbobode Abidde September 1, 2009
    by Sabella Ogbobode Abidde

    If you have been living in the West for much of your productive life, and you are now clocking 55, 60 or 65 and with the urge to return home, …

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  • It Is Time To Execute Corrupt Officials in Nigeria

    by Sabella Ogbobode Abidde August 20, 2009
    by Sabella Ogbobode Abidde

    Whether Nigerians and the global community like it or not, the time for mass hanging has come. The time is ripe for the systemic elimination of twenty-five percent of Nigeria’s …

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  • The Eighteen Most Intelligent Questions Ever Asked

    by Sabella Ogbobode Abidde August 19, 2009
    by Sabella Ogbobode Abidde

    As educated, street-smart and well-travelled as Nigerians are, they seem to have a high tolerance for stupidity, cowardice and mediocrity. Otherwise, how could men like Obasanjo, Abacha, Babangida and Shagari …

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  • The Land Deal: Reuben Abati Opens Up…Sort of

    by Sabella Ogbobode Abidde August 1, 2009
    by Sabella Ogbobode Abidde

    “I still insist that there is a land registry at the FCTA. You go there and do your investigations instead of asking me to respond to pure rubbish…. What is …

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  • How Three Ijaw Governors Emptied The State Treasury

    by Sabella Ogbobode Abidde July 28, 2009
    by Sabella Ogbobode Abidde

    This is the story of how three sons of the soil helped to impoverish their state. This is the story of how three Ijaw governors – Alamieyeseigha, Goodluck Jonathan and …

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  • No Amnesty, No Surrender: Only Equity and Good Governance

    by Sabella Ogbobode Abidde July 27, 2009
    by Sabella Ogbobode Abidde

    No one can guarantee the Nigerian people and the Nigerian state peace, security and stability insofar as the Niger Delta crisis is concerned. No one! Not even the Movement for …

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  • Cloak and Dagger: Plotting the Removal of Governor Timipre Sylva

    by Sabella Ogbobode Abidde July 21, 2009
    by Sabella Ogbobode Abidde

    All is not well in Yenagoa. The major participants – Jonathan, Alaibe, and Sylva – all have daggers drawn, concealed by overflowing cloak. In all of this, Governor Timipre Sylva …

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  • Black Women and White Men and the Question of Marriage (2)

    by Sabella Ogbobode Abidde July 13, 2009
    by Sabella Ogbobode Abidde

    It is unlikely anyone knows for sure the number of successful or promising Black men who are dating, or are married to White women. All we know is that the …

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  • Black Women, White Men and the Question of Marriage

    by Sabella Ogbobode Abidde July 6, 2009
    by Sabella Ogbobode Abidde

    Insofar as sub-Saharan African women are concerned, they generally do not look or feel comfortable or secured in the company of White men. It is as if they are not …

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  • I am Back In Nigeria

    by Sabella Ogbobode Abidde July 2, 2009
    by Sabella Ogbobode Abidde

    You see, I have been cheated and taken advantage of so many times by taxi drivers, market women and by my neighbors so many times that it is no longer …

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  • Seven Reasons Why The Niger Delta Must Be Taken Seriously

    by Sabella Ogbobode Abidde June 20, 2009
    by Sabella Ogbobode Abidde

    Long before the formation of the most ferocious non-state group to ever traverse the Nigerian landscape, I had penned a series of essays warning of dire consequences: unless measurable and …

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  • God Is On Facebook

    by Sabella Ogbobode Abidde June 15, 2009
    by Sabella Ogbobode Abidde

    Facebook is fast becoming a medium for self-promotion, for grandiose statements, for keeping and for settling scores, for venting their frustrations, and for shamelessly espousing their religiosity…

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  • The Ongoing Destruction Of Ijaw Land

    by Sabella Ogbobode Abidde May 22, 2009
    by Sabella Ogbobode Abidde

    At the aftermath of the unprovoked attack on Ijaw communities in Gbaramatu kingdom of Warri South West Local Government Area of Delta State the Ijaw nation wishes to state with …

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  • Christians and the Born-Again Phenomenon

    by Sabella Ogbobode Abidde March 20, 2009
    by Sabella Ogbobode Abidde

    My generation was born, grew up, and came of age at a time when Nigeria was not this disordered. It was a time when poverty was not this rampant and …

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