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The Seasonal Madness By Dan Agbese
And the seasonal madness is already upon us. I am torn between wasting my sympathy on PDP and wasting my tears for our country. PDP is bleeding because it is the primary victim of the […]
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Public Relations: Essential Service During The Pandemic By Nosakhare Iyamu
The year 2020 was definitely an unprecedented year with the outbreak of COVID-19. The wave of the global pandemic hit and the effect of its reverberations are still felt around the world. In Nigeria, the […]
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Donald Rumsfeld, Killer of 400,000 People, Dies Peacefully | DailyBeast
Do not mourn the defense secretary. Mourn his victims. There were nearly too many to tally, but his Pentagon refused to count anyway. The only thing tragic about the death of Donald Rumsfeld is that […]
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The Lord Chancellor and Park Yobs Agree: It’s All About How Many Mates You’ve Got Marina Hyde | The Guardian
A shared assumption unites Robert Buckland’s defence of the PM’s untruth and the shameful harassment of Chris Whitty On Monday, the prime minister could be found gibbering at the camera on a factory visit, wearing […]
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Why Suggesting Mandatory Covid Aaccinations Is An Ethical Minefield By Melinda Mills | The Guardian
It’s not only the UK’s public sector that is mulling compulsory jabs. Often the carrot can be more powerful than the stick Last week we learned of a government consultation expected to announce mandatory Covid-19 […]
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It Will Take a Labour Crisis For Keir Starmer To Learn To Speak His Mind By Rafael Behr | The Guardian
The mantra of party unity is wearing thin when no one knows what it is they are supposed to be unifying around Keir Starmer is more likely than most people in Britain to be prime […]
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Open Grazing: Buhari and The Rest of Us – Part 2 By Ebun-Olu Adegboruwa
It is not just that the President is unjustifiably advocating and defending an outdated open grazing policy, he is equally amassing all arsenals of state power, in aid of this sinister agenda, that blows ill […]
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Udom Emmanuel’s Unrelenting Industrialisation Push By Luke Onyekakeyah
If there is one governor who is visionary, strategic, calm, unassuming, confident and desirous to bring about transformation starting from his state that is Governor Udom Emmanuel of Akwa Ibom State. Without making noise over […]
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The Chidinma/Ataga Tango By Ray Ekpu
The story is growing wings in the public space and as all such stories go, there is likely to be ample embellishment. But even without anyone adding onions, crayfish and pepper to the story, it […]
Editorial
Endangered CBN’s Anchor Borrowers’ Programme
For a country battling insecurity and facing severe food shortages, it is scary that a novel government programme to boost food production and encourage farmers is heading for the rocks, going by reports that insecurity […]
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Why Derek Chauvin’s Sentence Doesn’t Resolve Things For Me By Elliot Williams | CNN
(CNN) – A chapter in American history closed Friday, with Derek Chauvin receiving a sentence of 270 months, or 22.5 years, for the murder of George Floyd. While Chauvin has a right to appeal both […]
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Removing Teddy Roosevelt’s Statue Is The Worst Kind Of Pandering By Scott Jennings | CNN
(CNN) – In life, he was a Bull Moose. Over one hundred years since his death, however, President Teddy Roosevelt is being bullied himself by woke activists who seek the erasure of some of America’s […]
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The UK Should Be Having a Racial Reckoning. Instead, Black Lives Matter Activists Say They Fear For Their Safety | CNN
London (CNN) – Aima, 19, is one of Britain’s most prominent Black Lives Matter (BLM) activists, but at a protest in London she is nervous. She has her hood up and, while a pandemic-mandated mask […]
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Matt Hancock, The One-time Sex Cop Now Busted For a By Dodgy Clinch | The Guardian
The health secretary once described lockdown-breaking hookups as ‘a matter for the police’. Will he hand himself in? Sorry, but the only thing I want to see Matt Hancock doing against the back of his […]
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No One Should Be Penalised if They Want To Carry On Working From Home By Gaby Hinsliff | The Guardian
Unless men also ditch the commute, flexible working is bound to be held against those who embrace it If dating can sometimes feel like hard work, then playing Cupid is evidently no picnic either. Whitney […]
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From Today Go, No Leaders Without Education By Kole Omotoso
Professor Tshilidzi Marwala has put together a book LEADING IN THE 21ST CENTURY: The Call for a New Type of African Leader, which should be easy to read and understand. The reason for the book […]
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A Global Model To Tackle Violence Against Women By António Guterres
As the world grapples unevenly with the effects of COVID-19, a parallel and equally horrific pandemic has threatened half the world’s population. In the early months of the pandemic, the United Nations projected that quarantines […]
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Nigeria Needs Better, Not More Universities By Martins Oloja
There is a sense in which one can claim that it is provocative that the authorities in Nigeria have continued to ignore the groundswell of informed commentaries that Nigeria needs better, not more universities at […]
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Ngige’s Sermon on The Mount By Femi Adesina
Did you watch the interview granted about 10 days ago by Labour and Employment Minister, Dr Chris Nwabueze Ngige, to Channels Television NewsNight program anchored by Ladi Akeredolu Ale? If you didn’t, then you missed […]
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Who Is Sabotaging Nigeria? By Sunny Ikhioya
YOU claimed during the 2015 election campaign that you do not understand why we are talking about fuel subsidy; today you have been in government for over six years and subsidy cost has escalated under […]