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Friday, September 8, 2023

The Failure Of Democracy In Africa

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  By   Chiedu Uche Okoye The rashes of successful military takeovers in some African countries signpost the failure of democracy on the Af...

Nigeria’s New Jobs ‘Data’: NBS Makes Itself A Laughingstock!

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  By Olu Fasan The news came like a bolt from the blue. Nigeria’s jobless rate dropped from 33.3 per cent to 4.1 per cent in August, decla...
Thursday, September 7, 2023

PEPT Verdict: Judiciary As Undertakers Of Nigeria’s Democracy

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  By Ikechukwu Amaechi On Wednesday, September 6, the Presidential Election Petitions Tribunal, PEPT, delivered judgement in the petitions...
Wednesday, September 6, 2023

Preventing Military Coups In Africa: Attention, Nigeria!

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  By Tonnie Iredia Two recent military coups in neighbouring Niger and Gabon have heightened discussions in Nigeria of the possibility of ...

The Comedy In The Tragedy Of Ali Bongo’s Ouster

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  By Rotimi Fasan It has never stopped raining for some of Africa’s fragile governments and reconditioned democracies. It’s been pouring. ...

Why Nigeria Needs State Police Urgently

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  By   Victor Anya The recent declaration of emergency on food by President Bola Ahmed Tinubu can’t be achieved since there is large scale...
Tuesday, September 5, 2023

Ali May Be Gone But The Bongo System Survives In Gabon

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  By Chidi Odinkalu Citizens of Gabon, the small Central African country and former bastion of French colonialism in the Congo Basin, brok...

Chinua Achebe International Symposium and 10th Memorial Celebration Hold At Princeton University

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Princeton University’s Africa World Initiative and Program in African Studies in partnership with The Christie and Chinua Achebe Foundation...
Monday, September 4, 2023

FG Palliatives: A Grain Of Rice For Each Household!

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  By Tunde Olusunle If you were a student of English in my generation, there were au­thors and titles, African and for­eign, you just had to...

Palliatives In Nigeria = Two Cups Of Grains!

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  By Dele Sobowale “Blessed are they that expect nothing; for they shall never be disappointed” – Pessimist motto. Hope renewed is beco...
Saturday, September 2, 2023

For Tinubu’s Nigeria, It’s From Frying Pan To Fire

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  By Emeka Alex Duru A friend  called the other day from Germany to get a true picture of situations in the country. The initial attempt w...

Mr. President And Rising Hunger, Insecurity

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  By Yemi Adebowale Last Tuesday, residents of the Kpansia area of Yenagoa, Bayelsa State, in their hundreds, invaded a warehouse in the l...
Friday, September 1, 2023

Gabonese Coup: The Fault Is Not In The Electorate

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  By Owei Lakemfa The scenario has various strands of familiarity. I mean the military coup of Wednesday, August 30, 2023 that removed Gab...
Thursday, August 31, 2023

President Tinubu’s Hurdles

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  By Sunny Ikhioya President Bola Ahmed Tinubu became the governor of Lagos State in May 1999, he was boisterous and full of enthusiasm, p...

East-West Road And Shame Of A Nation

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  By Jerome Utomi The world is aware that the Niger Delta area or the South-South geopolitical zone of Nigeria is prone to many negative i...

The NYSC’s Relevance And Heightened Insecurity In Nigeria

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  By   ‘Femi D. Ojumu The lofty objectives of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) in Nigeria, upon inception in 1973, by the military ...

Tinubu’s Government: Where Is Nigeria’s Soul, Moral Compass?

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  By Olu Fasan Every great nation is built on a strong moral foundation. No nation succeeds without, as Plato put it, a “healthy soul”, wh...
Wednesday, August 30, 2023

Floods: The Terror From Cameroon’s Lagdo Dam

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  By Rasheed Akinkulie The floods which periodically sweep across the banks of Rivers Benue and Niger down to the Atlantic Ocean in Bayels...

What Are The Governors Doing With The Palliatives?

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By Rotimi Fasan At the end of July this year, President Bola Ahmed Tinubu said in a nationwide broadcast that Nigeria had been able to sav...

NLC And The Big ‘War’ Ahead

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  By Ochereome Nnanna The Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, is saddled with three mandates. The first is the classical or labour mandate – fig...
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