If you are in Nigeria and you have not done this before, try and do it right away. Just open a Nigerian newspaper near you. Go through its pages to …
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Three years ago, I travelled to the United States for the annual convention of Mbaise people living there. The convention, which is usually rotated among the states in the U.S., …
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“Excoriating the corruption epidemic” has become the driving mantra of President Mohammadu Buhari’s administration. The president, true to his pre-election promise to uproot the asphyxiating weed of graft choking the …
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Persons of interest who pandered to the whims and caprices of the former profligate government and also elevated corruption to its pervasive status are yet to recover from the wind …
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I’ve always liked this Somerset Maugham quote: “I do not believe myself to be a vindictive man; but when the immortal gods take a hand in the matter it is …
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When President Muhammadu Buhari pulled out his kinsman, Lawal Daura, from retirement to head the Department of State Services (DSS), it did not come as a surprise to many. The …
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The God of vengeance seems to be rocking Nigeria now. I think the country is on the road to political and spiritual rejuvenation. When an embattled politician died of cardiac …
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Man has dominated man to his injury – Ecclesiastes 8:9 Man is a social animal who dislikes his fellow man -Eugene Delacroix Today, the 1st of …
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The administration of President Goodluck Jonathan was our last collective journey to the past as a country. The battle between the government and the ordinary people was a battle for …
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INTRODUCTION Assessing elected officials on a 100 day period has gained a worldwide phenomenon and is usually used to predict the direction of a government in power. As it is …
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Hurray! It is September and Nigerians from the South can now expect to be called upon to serve their country as members of President Buhari’s cabinet. No, they are not …
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Strange and worrisome as the decision by the Buhari administration to limit its ongoing probe of public officers and institutions to the era of the regime it took over from …
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Leyii Kwanee is not your ordinary politician. He has none of the flamboyance and excessive ostentatiousness of most Nigerian politicians that you may have come across. This one was cut …
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To be your own worst enemy: to cause most of your problems or most of the bad things that happen to you yourself, because of your character. A few years …
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Now, majority of Nigerians through social media are no more apathetic to politics in Nigeria. It is a big sigh of relief and a welcome development. The temerity and confluence …
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The arrival of the new Sheriff in town is sending shivers down the spines of the conglomeration of thieves who sucked the nation’s treasury to its near-comatose state and our …