Interviews

I am fed up with the lies of Yar‘Adua’s aides — Akunyili (Vanguard newspaper)

*Why I allowed Aondoakaa to take up the job of briefing on  Yar‘Adua’s health
*Some aides have wounded President more than 100 million  political enemies
*This is not the Yar‘Adua we know

Prof. Dora Nkem Akunyili caught the nation’s attention with her unrelenting campaign against fake and adulterated drugs in the country in her immediate past employment as Director General of the National Agency for Foods, Drugs Administration and Control (NAFDAC).

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Appraising the role of the legal profession in creating an ideal democratic society

Introduction: I thank the entire staff and students of the Faculty of Law, Adekunle Ajasin University for inviting me to be the Guest Speaker at the 10th Anniversary Lecture of the Faculty. I am indebted to the Dean, Professor Yemi Akinseye- George for the indulgence to address this distinguished audience on Appraising the Role of the Legal Profession in creating an ideal Democratic Society. In view of the controversy surrounding the resolution of the National Assembly which made the Vice President the Acting President I intend to address the intervention of lawyers in the resolution of the programmed constitutional confusion that we are currently witnessing in the country.

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Dr. Damages Interviews Goodluck Jonathan

Announcer: ..and now, here is your Tonight’s Show host, Dr. D.J. Damages
 
(Applause)
 
Dr. Damages: Thank you. Legend has it that only one man has perfected the act of moving from the position of vice to that of the principal. It is said that when he is named your deputy, you’re a marked man. Either you’re about to die or you’re about to be indicted.

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The People's Doctor

 Color Magazine Feature-"I used to always say to my family," recounts Dr. Chidi Achebe, "why is it that when you go to clinics in the wealthy neighborhoods, like Wellesley, they have labs? Why don't we have that here in Dorchester?" Standing in front of the door that leads to the newly installed laboratory at Harvard Street Neighborhood Health Center, located in the Dorchester neighborhood of Boston, Achebe turns the knob, opens the door and enters the lab with his arms spread wide open.

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Beyond the Nigerian Terrorist Bomber

When you strip Nigeria of all its borrowed and illusive attires, what will be left is a wretched half-child-half-man nation on the verge of implosion. Nigerians and the rest of the world are beginning to ask themselves serious questions in the wake of a Nigerian man’s attempt at bombing an American airline over Detroit on Christmas day.

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How I was brutalized by the police and bank officials - Journalist

Few days after the amnesty report indicted the Nigeria Police of extra judicial killings and brutality, a journalist with TheNEWS Magazine; DESMOND UTOMWEN was brutally assaulted   by a combined team of staff of Guaranty Trust Bank, GTB and Police guards assigned to the bank. In this interview, Utomwen, who is a senior correspondent in the Abuja Bureau office, narrates his ordeal  

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Critical observations on the state of the nation

altBeing the text of the Obafemi Awolowo University Distinguished Alumni Lecture Delivered by Femi Falana at the Oduduwa Hall, Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile Ife, Osun State on Monday, December 7, 2009

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Why I Quit Redeemed Church by Pastor Tunde Bakare-TheNEWS

Pulpit Radical-When one looks at the life of Pastor Tunde Bakare of the Lagos-based Latter Rain Assembly, one cannot but conclude that he carries a burden of history in the dialectics of Christianity in Nigeria. This is because at every stage of development in history, whereby changes occur as a result of contradictions in the status quo, certain individuals were the agents of such revolution. And Christianity is not an exception. Immediately Jesus Christ left the scene, his disciples carried the gospel to the nooks and crannies of the then known world.

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Dr. Damages Interviews Andy Uba, Ngige, Soludo & others

When I was a five year old, I watched my first concert. It was performed by the students of St. Monica’s women’s teachers’ training college, in Ogbunike. I recalled how the curtain opened and these young women, dressed in elegant gown, high heel shoes and long wigs came out to sing in their angelic voice, the song called Anambra State.

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