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2027: Vote ‘right’ or be banished? By Ikechukwu Amaechi

2027: Vote ‘right’ or be banished? By Ikechukwu Amaechi

As should be expected in this political silly season, politicians will maximise the window to test wild narratives and launch personal attacks aimed at distracting voters from the substantive issues that confront them. There is nothing particularly wrong with that as long as such antics are within the ambit of the law. But most Nigerian politicians like […]
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EFCC: Will or wherewithal?

EFCC: Will or wherewithal?

IT was Jon Huntsman, American billionaire businessman and entrepreneur who in his humbler days worked as special assistant to the president during the first term of the Nixon administration that wrote in his bestselling book, Winners Never Cheat: “There are no moral shortcuts in the game of life.

Bode George’s navigation to prison

Bode George’s navigation to prison

In the maze of the woes the political elites have sunk the Nigerian people, good news comes our way only once in a while. Such was the case when the Supreme Court sent an usurper, Andy Uba packing from the Anambra State Government House and restored the legitimate administration of Peter Obi.

Kidnapping in Anambra is prelude to anarchy  – Ngige

Kidnapping in Anambra is prelude to anarchy – Ngige

“In my next administration, I’m hoping to first of all solve the problems from the source. You will remember I was talking about the US system which countered the negative effects of unemployment by establishing some institutional cushions to alleviate the poverty and the sufferings of the poor, the unemployed, the youths and their retraining programmes, and of course the provision of power

Bearing the red flag  (3)

Bearing the red flag (3)

Ade, (29), Accountant: “I can’t remember clearly if the pains started immediately after I began menstruating or not. But if it didn’t, it couldn’t have been much longer. I began menstruating at the age of 14 years, a bit late because many of my age mates had started before then. Whenever the thing came, I would be so ill that going to school used to be a great problem.