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ON 1st January 2012, the government of former President Goodluck Jonathan set out to remove the fuel subsidy that had drained the coffers of the nation for decades (as successive governments made us believe). Predictably, protests greeted the move, and most cities were grounded as a result. Days into the debacle, the regime buckled and
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I do not believe that the Army merely went to Afaraukwu, circled Kanu’s home for some days and left him free to escape. Then, what did they go there to do? The logic or commonsense does not stand up at all
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I MET Anayo Rochas Okorocha for the first time 24 years ago at the Jos national convention of the defunct Social Democratic Party, SDP, which produced Chief Moshood Abiola as presidential candidate. On the morning of our departure at the Hill Station Hotel, a large number of brand-new police vehicles which did not yet have number plates drove in. A Jos-based colleague, Peter Kuptong, told me that they belonged to an Igbo man, who was a big-time contractor for the Police
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Buhari’s government is just a temporary irritant to our national unity. He will go, just the same way he came. We will then reclaim our country from these medieval-minded ethnic bullies and sectional caterpillars stuffing their guts with our commonwealth like ravenous hyenas
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TALK about the rise and fall of Nigeria’s Ivy League oilman. Yes, that is what it is, considering where and how it all started two years ago. What happened to Dr. Emmanuel Ibe Kachikwu reminds me of one inelegant Russian proverb which says: “Gold sinks, shit floats” (please, pardon the vulgarity of those Russians).
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The outcome of the investigation which the Senate has ordered into this monster of alleged corruption perpetrated by Baru right under the watch of President Buhari, alias “Mr Integrity”, will surely define this regime for what it has always been from Day One, even for Doubting Thomases to see
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I stand for a united, democratic Federal Republic of Nigeria, where there is freedom, equity, justice and progress which can only come from an equalised federation instead of the current lopsided one. I know that people like me are found in all the six geopolitical divisions of this great nation
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By Ochereome Nnanna
TODAY, I am taking a brief recess from discussing issues of primordial nature foisted on us by the medieval-minded government of President Muhammadu Buhari, the leader who has nothing to offer other than to take us back to our dark, better-forgotten past. I am relieved to dwell on a vital issue of national development today: the FG/Dangote tax-for-road deal.
By Ochereome Nnanna BEFORE I engage this analytical inquest into the politics at play in the containment of the Indigenous Peoples of Biafra, IPOB, may I ask this question: where is Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, the leader of this group? There has been eerie silence on the whereabouts of Kanu and some of his immediate family
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I WOKE up this Thursday morning, and after my usual morning devotion, I consulted my Internet-enabled gadget as is now customary with most people. I was confronted by two very unfortunate fallout of the Nigerian Army’s Operation Python Dance II which is ongoing in the South East.
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