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For about two weeks, as I write, there has not been a blinker of electricity in my neighbourhood.
Read More As I prepared to write this column, a 14-year-old boy, or thereabout, was being featured on a news programme of a national television. He had his mother by his bedside at the National Hospital, Abuja, where he is undergoing treatment. His eyes were bloodshot as he faced the camera, telling Nigerians of his ailment.
Read More By Rose Moses Grief and pain best define the feeling one goes through each time stories on rape of minors by men old enough to be their grandfathers are reported. Worst still is that such stories are not in short supply these days. Indeed, cases of rape and child defilement have been gaining frightening dimensions
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The outgoing week, like many others in recent Nigeria’s polity, has been very eventful, full of drama. This is even more so with news of the return of President Muhammadu Buhari from London after about 104 days away.
Read More As the late Nelson Mandela, first black president of South Africa, once said, education is the most powerful weapon that one can use to change the world.
Read More With the attack, last Sunday, on worshippers at St. Philips Catholic Church, Ozubulu in Ekwusigo Local Government Area of Anambra State, there is no doubting the fact that living in Nigeria is becoming a huge risk as life gets ‘nasty, brutish and short.’
Read More In what would pass as the worst attack by the deadly terrorist group since February 2 last year when 58 people were killed in a twin suicide bomb attacks at a camp for the displaced in Dikwa town of Borno State, Nigerians, last week, were jolted by the sad news of another terrorist attack.
Read More The rusty community of Amauzu Nkpoghoro village in Afikpo North Local Government Area of Ebonyi State was in the news last week for the wrong reason.
Read More There is this story of a ‘blind beggar’ that usually stationed himself with a plate for alms at the foot of a bridge in Lagos. On this particular day, a passer-by attempted stealing from his plate and the ‘beggar’ gave him a hot chase for the money.
Read More A professor and notable diplomat, whose names I am not going to mention here, once told me an interesting story. So funny was the story that I got my ribs cracking with laughter.
Read More So, I was at Iddo, a local open market popular for sale of food products, last weekend and the picture on prices of commodities at the market still remained quite depressing.
Read More If you have been looking for the section of the Holy Book, where God, after creation, had cause to look back and declare that the heart of man is desperately evil, you need not look far. Just open the chapter on present day Nigeria, and even beyond, click on the verse or stories on Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) and you will see, crystal clear, how mean and wicked man can be to fellow man.
Read More Aside from the obvious coverage of activities of government at various levels/political developments with a touch of human face to the stories, issues pertaining to gender, health, economy, business, family will be featured on Talking Point.
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