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The election of Chairman of Nigeria Governors Forum (NGF) finally held on Friday, May 24 and Governor Rotimi Amaechi of Rivers State has emerged victorious. Polling 19 votes out of 35 and his...
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Ogene, the gong pierces the hollow night in feverish echoes of the solemn news!
Ala, the earth wearily opens to swallow this huge feast of a people’s hymnal hunger.
Chinualumogu! We still see...
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Up to the moment he breathed his last on Thursday, March 21, 2013, Chinua Achebe, Africa’s most quoted raconteur, novelist , essayist and social critic, did not know he was the person who...
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I read with pity, a poorly written piece by one Sufuyan Ojeifo on NewsDairyOnline (newsdiaryonline.com/marks-house-of-indolence-a-thesis-redolent-of-dishonesty-by-sufuyan-ojeifo/) and an edited...
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Let me begin this piece with a story. Inno is a Nigerian in his early thirties, a graduate of Geography who has been searching from coast to coast for a job since he graduated in 2007. After...
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I encountered Chinua Achebe as a teenager growing up in Benin City in the then Bendel State. It was a meeting that changed my perception of life. It was an immersion and learning experience into the...
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Lately, there has been so many “elderly rascality” taking place in Nigeria. From Gabriel Igbinedion’s complete disregard for the law of the land on election-day in Edo State to the...
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When Chinua Achebe was returning to Nigeria for the first time in 2001 since he had a car accident in 1990, I advised the then governor of Anambra State, Chinwoke Mbadinuju, to name a very...
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The proclamation of emergency rule on three states of the North-East by a resurgent President Goodluck Jonathan was given the blessing of the National Assembly, as legislators of opposition parties...
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Last week, President Goodluck Jonathan finally, pursuant to the powers conferred on him by the Constitution, imposed emergency rules in the already heavily militarised North-East states of Borno,...
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There has been so much hue and cry over the so called Baga massacre, a community in Borno state where the Joint Task Force (JTF) of the infamous Nigerian army massacred over 180 innocent people...
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The current face-off between the students of the state-owned Olabisi Onabanjo University and the Senator Ibikunle Amosun-led Ogun state government over the payment of the back-log of school fees owed...
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