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Investigating and understanding Oborevwori’s triangular tide

Investigating and understanding Oborevwori’s triangular tide

By Enewaridideke Ekanpou A tide is a tide anywhere, but a tide assumes connotative colours when it becomes triangular in build and action. Like a cumulonimbus cloud endowed with both positive and negative potentials, there must be something hidden behind a triangular tide. There must be something equally iconographic about a triangular tide too when […]
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Allen Onyema: The Sky Conqueror Who Gave Nigeria Its Wings

Allen Onyema: The Sky Conqueror Who Gave Nigeria Its Wings

By Fred Chukwuelobe Imagine, for a moment, that there was no airline called Air Peace. Imagine that one man didn’t dare to conquer the skies.   Imagine thousands of Nigerians travelling to Abuja, Owerri, Enugu, Benin, Port Harcourt, Kano and several other destinations, forced onto long, dangerous highways. Imagine students stranded by prohibitive airfares, with nowhere to turn. […]

Here’s what global happiness metrics omit about Nigeria

Here’s what global happiness metrics omit about Nigeria

By EBUKA UKOH Nigeria is ranked 106th on the Global Happiness Index. Noteworthy too is that Nigeria, over the years, dropped all the way from 102nd to another position before settling at 106th. At the same time, Nigeria stands among the world’s most terror-affected countries, with violence claiming lives at an alarming pace. In recent months, […]

Street light poles, local industry, economics Nigeria cannot ignore

Street light poles, local industry, economics Nigeria cannot ignore

By LADI ALAPINI As Nigeria pushes ahead with one of the most expansive road infrastructure programmes in its history, a quiet but consequential question sits beneath the asphalt and concrete: who will supply the millions of street light poles required to illuminate these highways? The instinctive answer should be Nigerian fabricators. Yet, without a deliberate and […]