There was nothing funny about a bloodied up grown man weeping hysterically in public, and complaining to whoever cared to listen that they robbed him of the 10,000 naira he …
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Two issues grabbed the headlines this weekend. Here, I will try to examine these issues as reflections of the state of our country Nigeria…
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I do not completely agree that the cause of the Nigerian predicament is corruption. Corruption, I agree is a problem in this country, but it is just a symptom of …
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It was the publication of There Was A Country that served as my sole premonition of the imminent death of my father Chinua Achebe. When he published it, my first …
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Traditionally, people tend to grapple with the concept of gender inequality as it concerns the man’s attempt at lording it over women…
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One of the most important television shows in the world is kicking off on DSTV this February. It is an Empower Africa Initiative show…
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Sometime ago, a friend of mine was working as a security head of an institution whose security apparatus also secures the immediate community where the institution is domiciled. For whatever …
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What I am concerned with is the fact that the reduction of the world to a global family has quite naturally led to a proliferation in the use of short …
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Even as those four young men were being bludgeoned to death and burnt, elsewhere in Port Harcourt, the rains had started. Gently at first; then it started pouring. Then as …
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Everybody talks about the bad image that Nigeria has internationally. While I accept that this is true, what irks me is that nobody devotes time to addressing the reasons for …
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Loads of critics will arise after reading this essay. Many African feminist critics could come for my jugular. I hope though that they will appraise the issue objectively and address …
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The city of Port Harcourt stood still on the 26th of November, 2011 at Tunnel’s Bar and Lounge, GRA Port Harcourt. It was the occasion of the album listening party …
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I love Allah, he is a merciful God. I know you love Allah too, he is a God of peace. Allah will not ask you to go and destroy innocent …
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Big Brother Africa season six has come and gone. It was the first time in the history of the show that two housemates were crowned winners – Karen and Wendall. …
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Boko Haram, MEND, bombings, kidnappings, political schemings and all, can only but last a moment. Battered though Nigeria might be by all your efforts…
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Very early in IBB’s time as military president of the country, former Newswatch Editor-in-chief Dele Giwa was assassinated through a letter bomb. There were many pointers to the fact that …