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Azazi, National Security and the Road Ahead
15Mar By Felix ShammahNo Comments
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Azazi, National Security and the Road Ahead

By Uche Igwe I used to think that security is the responsibility of either the state or someone else. All that changed in 2009, when I woke up and peeped through the window and noticed that my car had been removed by thieves. (more…)
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The Viability of UNIOSUN
15Mar By Felix ShammahNo Comments
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The Viability of UNIOSUN

by Raheem Oluwafunminiyi WHILE growing up as a kid, this writer was made to understand that for any organisation to have fallen like a pack of cards, it must have been as a result of (more…)
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Nigeria Tested by Rapid Population Growth
15Mar By Felix ShammahNo Comments
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Nigeria Tested by Rapid Population Growth

By Elizabeth Rosenthal for the New York Times In a quarter-century, at the rate Nigeria is growing, 300 million people — a population about as big as that of the present-day United States — will live in a country the size of Arizona and New Mexico. (more…)
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Message to Herman Cain
15Mar By Felix ShammahNo Comments
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Message to Herman Cain

An Anonymous Author The greeting on your website says, "We are looking forward to hearing from you", but I'm not sure you will be looking forward to hearing from me, Mr. Cain. (more…)
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Iroko Stands Tall at 57
15Mar By Felix ShammahNo Comments
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Iroko Stands Tall at 57

By Kayode Akinmade ‘Count your blessings and name them one by one’ was that memorable quote by John Oatman Jr. (1897). Blessings have great significance, even unto God. It is recorded in the Bible that there were so many people blessed by (more…)
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Remembering Anthony Onyearugbulem
15Mar By Felix ShammahNo Comments
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Remembering Anthony Onyearugbulem

Nine years ago, Anthony Ibe Onyearugbulem, who was a military administrator of Ondo State and later of Edo State, died under befuddling circumstances inside a Kaduna hotel, at the age of 47. (more…)
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Fayemi Dances on the Grave of Ekiti Ancestors
15Mar By Felix ShammahNo Comments
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Fayemi Dances on the Grave of Ekiti Ancestors

By Lere Olayinka Last week Thursday, I was at the popular Oja-Oba in Ado-Ekiti to do some shopping  when a locust beans (iru) seller, whom I latter identified to be Madam Febisara said “a doju tini omo ni Fayemi i o” (This Fayemi is putting us to shame). She was talking to her colleague, who had complained of low sales. (more…)
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PDP, Kogi State Gubernatorial Elections, a Disaster in the Waiting
15Mar By Felix ShammahNo Comments
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PDP, Kogi State Gubernatorial Elections, a Disaster in the Waiting

By Idris Mohammed No one who is minimally objective on political discourse in Nigeria can deny that last week’s Governorship primaries election in Kogi State by the ruling Peoples’ Democratic Party (PDP) is a sham. As widely predicted by many analysts, it was business as usual, just electoral fraud and (more…)
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