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Our uncle, HayfordAlile, was very genuine and true to that word, in the African sense. He was a scion of the legendary Chief Ogbeide Uyo (Inneh) expansive dynasty of the Benin Empire and he became an “uncle” to the many branches of that illustrious dynasty, including: Oviawe, Eghobamien/Ogbomo, Agho/Obaseki, Alile/Eguavoen, Amadasun, Omoregie, Obayuwana, to name a few.
Read MoreThe United States Institute of Peace (USIP) has in line with its mandate to promote conflict resolution and conflict prevention worldwide, conducted a research on the forthcoming general election in Nigeria with a view to identifying flash points and likely areas of conflicts.
Read More There must be a limit to deluding ourselves. Metamorphosis is real. The process moves from egg to larva to pupa and finally the adult insect emerges to do good or unleash evil. The Islamic Movement in Nigeria is at the verge of evolving to the adult stage of destruction – having gone through the pupa stage of relative inaction until it began a campaign of violence in the last few days
Read More King Darius I (522 – 486 BC) was the fourth in line and the greatest of the kings of the ancient Persia, today’s Iran. During his reign, the empire covered the entire middle East, modern Turkey and parts of Balkans, India and Asia. His ambitious plan to overrun and annex the city states of Greece however met the waterloo at the battle of Marathon where the highly spirited Athenians inflicted a debilitating defeat on the Persians in B.C 490.
Read More As Nigerians as a people are ostensibly determined to nurture their nascent democratic terrain, it’s expected of them to keenly and extensively look inwards toward discovering the encumbrances surrounding the said process with a candid view to holistically addressing them.
Read More SELFLESS and value-added service, loyalty to set goals, integrity, honour, virtue and consistuency, are some of the core values that are prime determinants of the quintessential politically-correct behaviours that are expected of political public office holders.
Read More The most recurring question that have come up since I decided to contest the position of the president of Nigeria has been the issue of structure. I hear it all the time everywhere I go, from family, from friends, on the internet and offline, in hushed whispers and in the
worried voices of people who express their fears to me personally.
THE Accountant General of Akwa Ibom State, Pastor Uwem Andrew- Essien, recently disclosed that the state government had paid pension and gratuity arrears spanning 10 years for the state’s civil servants. According to him, the arrears have been cleared till 2015, thus leaving outstanding payment to be that of civil servants who retired in 2016 alone. The payment he explained is being done in batches because of the huge sums involved.
Read MoreTHE Chartered Insurance Institute of Nigeria, CIIN, is set to educate practitioners on the need to use value as the focal point of service offerings.
Read More First of all, there is no name like Moses, just like there is no name like Jesus. Both those names are made up names that the European translators of the Hebrew and Aramaic Scriptures transliterated and substituted for the actual names that were in Scripture which are Moshe (Moses) and Yehoshua or Yeshu’a (Jesus).
Read MoreThese are very auspicious times. For states under induced violence and killings, there is every need to tramp with caution, because the political scavengers are back. They are on the prowl, enriched in more tricks and deceptions in the quest for power.
Read MoreSave Nigeria Network, a civil society organiiation, has accused the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, of hiring foreign lobbyist to achieve regime change and not for election purpose.
Read MoreThere has been much fury in the clan of PDP, Nigeria’s main opposition. Drily voices vibrated in consuming chants; there were ruckus hullaballoos or inexplicable excitement in the opposition camp everywhere. They were demanding President Muhammedu’s Buhari’s secondary school certificate. So, tongues meaninglessly wagged in haughty ambience.
Read More I write to react to the view expressed by one Yemi Oke, an associate professor of energy law at the University of Lagos, to the effect that the Minister of Works, Power and Housing, Mr Babatunde Fashola, was playing politics with the power sector.
Read More Some people glamourize regret as if it’s a virtue or an endowment. All some posers need to do to remain relevant on social media is to say they regret voting Buhari. Others less imaginative ask, “Is this the change we voted for”? Whenever I hear these, I am reminded that loyalty is a high-price commodity.
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