I have decided to coin the title of this week’s essay like a typical title of a literary academic paper. Writing academic papers is an engaging enterprise different from the …
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Nigeria is gradually tottering on the slippery slope of ethnic conflict reminiscent of the carnage that culminated in the Rwandan genocide of 1994. Sadly, ethnic rhetoric has defined Nigeria’s socio-political …
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It is no longer news that Nigeria’s former military head of state and elected president, Muhammadu Buhari, is dead. He was given a state burial in his home town of …
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Nigeria’s political atmosphere is saturated by a type of fever which lacks any suitable nomenclature. Those at the centre of the current situation in the country are politicians from both …
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There is a widening revolution in our world spearheaded by the demographic cohort globally referred to as Gen Z, short for Generation Z. This group of people, young, vibrant, and …
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In 1999, when I went to the Faculty of Arts, University of Lagos notice board to check my posting for the National Youth Service Corps scheme, it was with a …
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Today is my birthday. But beyond the satisfaction from the company of a wonderful wife, exceptional children and a few genuine friends, the byways of my mental process are scrabbled …
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Charles Dickens’ novel A Tale of Two Cities presents two cities, Paris and London, with contrasting fortunes for French physician Alexander Manette. In the novel, Paris is a city where …
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There are convincing indicators that Nigeria’s president, Mr Bola Tinubu, is committed to exterminating democracy in Nigeria. Although he has adopted veiled, pretentious tactics, the enlightened, discerning mind is aware …
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Marketing and demarketing are major semantic categories in Business, Economics, Public Relations, and Advertising-related discourses. However, these days of cross-pollination of ideas and interdisciplinary approaches in almost every enlightened engagement, …
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Nigerian public figures – politicians, clerics, traditional rulers, heads of parastatals, and sundry persons of self-styled importance, as usual, demonstrated an insincere, perfidious attitude during the recent Easter celebration across …
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Mr. President has done well for our country. Before he came to power, the country was disingenuously gravitating towards fascism, the type that would make Italian Benito Mussolini turn green …
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In practical terms, one can confidently argue that democratic governance in Nigeria as we know it is disappearing, vanishing across all levels of political corridors. The politicians are engaged in …
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Recently, Nigeria’s former military dictator Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida publicly presented his autobiography in Abuja. Unfortunately, what should have passed as a day of mourning, a requiem for the desecration of …
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Cleaning the Augean Stables is a figurative expression that means purging a place of corruption, filth, moral decay, and degenerate attitudes. The origin derives from Greek mythology when King Augeas …
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I have always known fact and fiction as separate words with distinctive identities. However, Professor Akachi Ezeigbo’s seminal book Fact and Fiction in the Literature of the Nigerian Civil War …