No one seems to be able to decode the special lexicon which lures our political class into so much of electioneering and little of governance. We all appear distracted by the politicisation of every subject making it hard for many to bother about information on what was done and how it was done.
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Today, we have every reason to be joyful. Our joy is not the type the world offers, but one borne out of a genuine conviction that Jesus is, indeed, Lord over heaven and earth. Even though He is God, He humbled himself to be born of a virgin, to suffer innumerable persecution and to offer His life as atonement for our sins.
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Anytime they were invited by the EFCC, they would plead not to be assigned to Magu for interrogation. He investigated the “big guys” without a fear in the world. He earned my thumbs-up when his investigation led to the conviction of his brother-in-law. This is not a common story in our Nigeria.
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When you heard the whistle coming from the street that meant it was football time. Real football.You see, when I was young, I loved playing football. But where I grew up in southern Nigeria, it was kind of like a ghetto.
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On another day, I will deal with the politics, morality and efficacy of whistleblowing as a tool in the fight against corruption. On my own part, my major concern is the lack of protection other than financial reward offered to the whistleblower!
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The graveyard of Nigerian politics is littered with presidents and governors who pocketed billions of naira of state funds in a brazen fraud called “security vote”.
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Although he led Nigeria for a little less than 36 months, late former President Umaru Yar’Adua will remain one of the few Nigerians with the most respect for democratic ethics in history.
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What the citizens would be confronted with at the end of the squabble between Kaduna State Governor Nasir El-Rufai and the Speaker of the House Assembly Yakubu Dogara is not a resolution of the crisis that redounds to the transparency of their financial dealings.
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Alhaji Aliko Dangote’s great strength is the capacity to recognise opportunities and the courage to navigate in stormy waters. Dangote, who turned 60 on Monday April 10, is on top of his game.
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What a relief! So, the Big Brother Naija reality television programme is finally over. It ended Sunday evening with 23-year old Efe Michael Ejemba, University of Jos graduate of Economics and singer winning the N25 million + SUV at stake, with 57.6% of the votes from over 24 million voters across Africa.
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On Tuesday, April 4, 2017, former Niger Delta militants numbering over 100 disrupted the inaugural sitting of a six-man investigative panel set up by the management of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) in Port Harcourt, the Rivers State capital.
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You may have noticed that people from this part of the country do not undertake funeral rites of their departed ones soonest. Rather the corpse is kept in a mortuary pending when they are ready for it.
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This monkey business was “invented” by Chief Tony Anenih who, as a close confidant of former President Olusegun Obasanjo, way back in 2001, announced that there was no vacancy in Aso Rock in 2003.
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Christians fall in love, then get married. But our love for our wives or our husbands does not exclude fighting and abusing them. Our love does not exclude beating them up. We pledge for better, for worse; but when things go south we opt for divorce.
READ MOREWhile it is true that the economy is still in a dicey state, it is not expected, however, to dampen the spirituality associated with Easter. Like the theme of this year’s Lenten pilgrimage for the Archdiocese of Lagos stated, ‘Man does not live by bread alone.’
READ MOREIt is not irrational to imagine that the current efforts of the ruling All Progressive Congress (APC) at redressing the on-going heating-up of the polity by its officials in government can hardly work.
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One can easily replicate what is going on in football in other sports in the country including basketball, tennis, track and field athletics. The breeding ground has shifted to Europe and America.
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And just in case the gods are still active. And just in case it’s true that the plague of an unending stream of thieving but religious politicians that has blighted the country since 1960 is because of the slaves our ancestors sold, then we plead for mercy. The scourge of bad leadership is worse than the worst bubonic plague.
READ MORELet me emphasise that it is not how long you govern that matters but how well. Every leader must decide how he wishes to be remembered. It is pertinent for every leader to consider this and decide on what he can do very quickly to attract eternal grace and praise.
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General Ishaya Bamaiyi is in the news today and getting flaks from prominent Nigerians after the release of his book where he, without fail, supported the administration of General Sani Abacha, which he was a key member of.
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I do not suppose the government needs anyone to persuade it to see that its beloved change is turning into a mere slogan for lack of focus. And change has stuck in our maws.
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Nigeria really has no choice but to seek such truly win-win partnerships, if it wants to move from slow to fast growth. Ijose is a policy analyst based in the United States.
READ MOREWhen the odd-defying English theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking quipped that “we spend a great deal of time studying history, which, let’s face it, is mostly history of stupidity,” he did not do justice to the relevance of history to a people’s development.
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Terrorists recall with much sadness their sudden impotence to violently seize whole communities for days, capture and abduct innocent Nigerians in Gwoza, Baga, Chibok, Damaturu, Biu, Pulka, Mallam Fatori, Gujba, Konduga, Giwa, Abuja or Kano among others.
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The disdain they have for constituted authority is thus mirrored in the rudeness with which they treat political leaders from their region, which makes the disdain they treat the federal government and its institutions with negligible.
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