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“Change does not roll in on the wheels of inevitability, but comes through continuous struggle” - Martin Luther King Jr.
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President Goodluck Jonathan has just nominated a chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party, Mr. Mike Okiro as the Chairman of the Police Service Commission.
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Long before the publication of The Accidental Public Servant, I had decided to resist joining issues with whatever commentators wrote in response to the book by way of either attacking the author or...
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The popular saying of the South American priest that “the poor cannot sleep because they are hungry and the rich cannot sleep because the poor are awake” has a menacingly poignant...
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[This tribute is a second revision of a piece (REFLECTIONS ON CHINUA ACHEBE) which I wrote in 2000, and revised in 2007. His passing, in the third week of March 2013, has necessitated this revision...
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Once again Nigeria is back to the musical chairs of disruptive politics. As was the case during the period when former military dictator and Head of State, General Sani Abacha wanted to transmute...
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In saner climes where people attain greatness through honest, transparent, open and unquestionable means, citizens are so accustomed to doing things the right way. They do not cut corners in whatever...
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Interestingly, in the history of Nigeria, not one person who had ever formally declared his or her intention to run for the Premiership or its Presidency, spelt out a cogent political agenda or...
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God will never forgive my teachers who taught me that the word ‘artiste’ refers to a female artist. Today, I had to pay hugely for arguing blindly with friends.... Crying, not for how...
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The palpable insecurity in the Lake Chad Region occasioned by armed banditry, arms trafficking and border intrusion along Nigeria’s border with Chad, Cameroon and Niger necessitated the...
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To start with, I am no fan of Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi, the governor of Rivers State. Not that he is my enemy though. He is of the PDP, the party most of us believe, has been behind the monumental...
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All African countries practice Bamako Initiative-inspired cost recovery system which is based on sales of services and medications to patients in health facilities. In other words, patients are...
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