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Fibre optic cable protection — beyond words, by Okoh Aihe

Getting a fibre optic ring around the country has enjoyed robust discourse in recent times. The other day, it was the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) calling a gathering to discuss a proposed Dig-Once policy which would ensure that the telcos and infrastructure companies rolling out fibre optic cables would have to take their fibres through one channel […]
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Inec and 2011 elections: My fears

Some people imagine that the 2011elections would be successful because of the calibre of the present INEC. They have a point. But if Jega’s team follows the ‘jack of all trade’ posture of its predecessors, then we have cause to fear.

Relationship: Shouldn’t be about money, but…

Hello, you guys and dolls out there!” called out this Radio anchorman cheerfully. “Our question of the evening is ‘’Should money matter in a relationship?’ Call us and tell us your mind on this very important matter. Tell us of your experiences. Tell us, if money has a role to play in a relationship. Okay? Ring this number …………….. Yeah! We’re all ears here in the studio”“

The South-East and its universities

Last week, the Federal Government announced that it would establish forty new universities to complement the existing ones. The idea, according to government sources, is to expand access to public higher education given the increasing number of new applicants seeking university education in the country.

Sacrifice Naija

This is another season of joyful greetings. It’s festival time. It is an occasion of celebration for Muslims, though everyone joins in – Christians of all suasions, pagans of all denominations, atheists of every distinction, all identify in one way or the other with the festivities, at least, if not with the attendant observance which has several aspects; there are the purely religious which pleasantly flow into the social.

Myanmar’s left on its own

WHEN a daughter of humanity, Aung San Suu Kyi on November 14, walked out of house arrest after seven and half years imprisonment, not a few began a count down on the day the Myanmar junta may throw her back in detention.

Thanks Again Falcons

THERE is a sense in which we must learn to extend our gratitude to the Falcons. Their victory in South Africa is a statement on commitment and passion.

Heroic coldness

MYANMAR, formerly known as Burma (its natives are still known as Burmese), has hit the headlines big-time in the past few days because Aung San Suu Kyi, the globally admired Burmese civil rights activist, has just been released by the ruling military junta, having spent l5 out of the past 2l years under house arrest.

The end from the beginning

HOW many people saw the German war monger who was trapped, fighting in one of those thick forests in Japan during the Second World War, which ended in 1945?

The sack of Uduaghan

IT came like a bombshell to many Nigerians that Tuesday, November 8, 2010 when most electronic media announced the sack of Governor Emmanuel Uduaghan of Delta State by the Court of Appeal presided over by Justice Monica Dongban-Mensah in Benin City.

Iwu’s legacy of electoral fraud

NIGERIA’S public officials never seem to mind History’s verdict on them. Their occupation of public office and their performance while they remain in such office often appears to them as exercises meant to satisfy the immediate wishes of those responsible for putting them in office in the first instance.

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