Amidst prevailing weeping, wailing and gnashing of teeth, news of the ‘completion’ of the 2nd Niger Bridge was received with elation nationwide; nay the Southeast. As announced by the works …
Isidore Emeka Uzoatu
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Knowing neither how nor why, I woke up this morning on a kind of high. Largely influenced by the escalating cost of energy worldwide, it left me, a la once …
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That Reverend Father Camilus Mbaka of the Adoration Ministries Enugu Nigeria (AMEN) is on the trend again is no longer news. What with its grist being that he has been …
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A noted cynic and friend of mine provided the mnemonic for this piece. Unbidden, he had opened up on the aged tale of the world being filled by three human …
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The recent elevation of Archbishop Daniel Okoh, the General Superintendent of Christ Holy Church, aka Nation Builders (Odozi-Obodo), to the prestigious presidency of the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) refers. …
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President Buhari never fails to blow his trumpet occasionally. The more so when those he assigned the job forget. More like the storied lizard off the dizzying height of a …
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Events in Nigeria end up unfolding at so dizzying a pace that oftentimes it gets hazy to recount them. Like in these pre-electioneering times, when they appear in a perpetual …
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There’s no understating the importance of primary schools in our lives. It matters less whether one ‘attended’ it at home, sans classmates. The privileged few in this species never suffered …
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Solutions to problems, whatever the ramification, are never far to fetch. In so far as those labouring to solve them are as well minded as to get to the root …
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This title of ours, no doubt, needs some disambiguation, lest it be lost in transmission before the awaited transition. Most so because of the proffered order of its protocol. Permit …
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David Umahi, the adorable executive governor of Ebonyi State, is a man after my heart. Everything about him suits my soul. In fact, were he to be of the other …
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A Nigerian woman ‘Lade Hephzibah Olugbemi has won the election to become councillor for the West Thamesmead ward in the Royal Greenwich Borough of Greenwich in the United Kingdom. She …
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As I type, the 33rd edition of the Confederation of Football (CAF) sanctioned Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) goes on in Cameroon. There the various national teams of the continent …
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The parachute has always featured in the Nigerian story. What with it being the magic wand that had been used to drop the first federal troops in Biafran territory. Thus, …
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There is a sign that’ll confront an African hunter setting off for the night’s job in a distant forest and he’ll call off the hunt instanta. Like his left toe …
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Back then in the USA, it was someone in Bill Clinton’s campaign team as they battled to trump Bush Snr’s presidency in 1992 that’s credited with coining the snowcone ‘It’s …