Dim Ojukwu has always been a risk taker. It is a defining feature of his personality. In matter of fact, it is to risk taking that he owes his international …
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In his mental universe, it appears Obasanjo sees himself as the nation’s pre-eminent statesman. But for such a mental outlook to have any basis in reality, one of such status …
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Those who seem bent and intent on denying Fashola re-nomination also seem determined to drive a wedge between him and Alhaji Bola Tinubu in order to rupture their effective and …
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It is no secret that the president of our federal republic currently endures a difficult personal trial of his own in the form of a severe body ailment. The treatment …
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Perhaps some influential thinking person or people will prevail upon the federal minister of education to begin a process to reclaim the minds of our youth. Mental states such as …
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I felt a strong urge to step outdoors to espy the night skies, in the fervent, but furtive hope of catching a glimpse – however fleeting – of the ascent …
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Far be it from me to impute or imply or cause others to infer from the title of this piece that the president of our federal republic is anything but …
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If indeed, Nigeria, was at some point a house fit for the habitation of its people; is it then safe to conclude, that at its founding, it was the output …
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I agree that there is room for improvement in Nollywood productions, as indeed with anything else, I do feel that Spike Lee’s Nollywood remarks were suffocatingly patronising, condescending, paternalistic and …
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It was no surprise to tennis realists that yet again the sisters prevailed in decisive fashion at the world’s oldest and most prestigious tennis championship…
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To those who may think it unthinkable that there can ever be a successful observance of a ‘national non-stealing day’ in Nigeria, I say it is worth a go nonetheless…
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Going by the conciliatory outcomes of this week, perhaps, before the week is out, Governor Oyinlola well set plans afoot to reconcile the Abiolas and the Abachas; the Ooni of …
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It is somewhat paradoxical that our current experiment at representative government is severely deficient in its ‘representative’ component…
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In Nigeria, as in most other nations, the practice of our politics and its governance – since before, and ever since independence, and right through to the present time – …
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So much for the naysayers of all complexions and complexities – within and without of Africa – who at the onset of majority rule in South Africa, predicted with prophetic …
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In the face of the magnitude of the challenges which confront us and pose a common and indiscriminate threat to the wellbeing of mankind as a species, it stands to …