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The Nativity: Why Mary belongs to us all

By Valentine Obienyem As our chaplain, Fr. Chigozie Jidere, proclaimed today’s Gospel on the genealogy of Jesus, my mind went to the story of Hecataeus of Miletus. Within the colossal inner halls of the temple of Amun at Egyptian Thebes, Hecataeus boasted to the priests that he could trace his lineage back sixteen generations to […]
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Caging the Ijaw Egbesu

Nigeria is the problem of Nigeria; Egbesu is not the problem, not even the other votaries of Egbesu

Arewa quit notice on the Igbo as a way to checkmate the Biafran agitators

-FOLLOWING a point of order raised by Senator Chukwuka Utazi, PDP, Enugu North over the deployment of Nigerian troops to Gambia by President Muhammadu Buhari without the approval of the Upper chambers, both Senators Rafiu Ibrahim, APC, Kwara South and Adesoji Akanbi, APC, Oyo South said, said Wedesday that the president acted within the ambit of the law.

Borno, Boko Haram and politics 

It may surprise many Nigerians who still hear sporadic nerve-breaking sounds of bomb explosions by Boko Haram Terrorists (BHTs) in parts of Borno state. This shock in Nigerians is reinforced by the insistence of the Nigerian military of defeating terrorism. Borno used to be the hub of terrorism in Nigeria and  even the incident of […]

Re: Squandering governors rolling out the drums

Nigeria is, as we speak, challenged and all eyes can see it! No thanks to past leaders who, in their selfish wisdom, ate all of the country’s honey, thereby leaving it with nothing but moonshine.

Still on Aiteo’s corporate sponsorship of Nigerian football…

Nigerians often view philanthropic gestures by corporate bodies with cynicism. This attitude is not out of place considering how often both the government and corporates make outlandish promises to transform the lives of individuals and groups which turn out to be mere soundbites devoid of any meaningful follow-through.

Government’s intervention in the Power sector

Power had remained a pounding Nigerian headache for decades, its inadequacy ensuring chronic economic underperformance nationwide, not to mention the distress it caused most of the citizens. You couldn’t fix Nigeria without fixing power.

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