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October 5 is set aside to celebrate teachers across the world. World Teachers’ Day is iconic. It cuts national and regional boundaries. Unfortunately, for...
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Despite all the elaborate search and rescue efforts that have been expedited by a combination of Nigerian security forces and their foreign allies, using the most advanced information gathering equipment available, the girls are light years away from being found. The Million Dollar questions bogging the minds of informed spectators of this macabre drama are: Where are our girls?
Some enlightened people in our country today who hold very strong opinions about government hold those opinions because of the strong position taken by Jean Jacques Rousseau. This thinker of the 18th Century successfully sold his idea of political participation via an arrangement known as the ‘Social Contract’...
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Most of us watching from the sidelines did not really understand what an El-Rufai was going to do in Anambra State on the very eve of the elections. Was he a grassroots campaigner or was he going there as an accredited election monitor?
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At the beginning of August, President Goodluck Jonathan appointed Suleiman Abba as Nigeria’s new Inspector General of Police. On the day of his formal investiture as police henchman, Mr. Abba promised to bring a new intensity to the fight against crime...
We face a serious moral dilemma that pervades all sectors of our national life. It appears that our sense of wrong and right has blurred to the extent that we cannot differentiate between the two...
It's high time we faced the bitter truth which is that the North and the South are two completely different and incompatible bed-fellows who were forced to live together by the British in order to serve their own selfish interests...
How does one begin to understand the psyche of beggars? Not your usual street beggars who due to no fault of theirs have to brave the elements in search of their daily bread. I’m talking about your uniformed or corporate beggars...
In this piece, I will strive to bring Odeyemi, the Special Adviser to Oyo State governor Alao-Akala on Special Duties, back to the issues. I can play the personal attack card too, but this is neither the place, nor is it the time for it. And quite frankly, there is no personality in Odeyemi for me to attack...
As a founding member of NADECO, Tinubu was forced into exile in 1994, only to return to the country after Abacha kicked the bucket in mid 1998. Like the rest of us, the man has his baggage. In fact, he has his aplenty...
The Court was due to resume sitting on November 24th 2009 but met for case management on Monday 23rd November 2009 during which it was presented with an email from Mr Dawodu...
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