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Police brutality: He-of-the-springy-steps

Police brutality: He-of-the-springy-steps

By CHETA NWANZE Two events I came across yesterday captured the state of Nigeria’s police-public relations with unsettling clarity. In Port Harcourt, angry youths blocked Agip Road to protest the killing of Anthony Obodo, a 22-year-old University of Port Harcourt graduate murdered by a police officer. The youths’ anger is not hard to understand. The […]
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Why we should vote Uduaghan, this Saturday

Why we should vote Uduaghan, this Saturday

As we, the good people of Delta South go out to cast our votes this Saturday, we urge all our ever vibrant constituents to bear in mind that nothing short of the very soul of our Senatorial District is at stake in this election.

Between SDGs on health, Sanwo-Olu’s health care plans

Between SDGs on health, Sanwo-Olu’s health care plans

The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are a collection of 17 global goals set by the United Nations General Assembly in 2015. The SDGs which are aimed at transforming our World have tagged the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. Paramount within the SDGs is the SDG goal 3 that focuses on good health and wellbeing for all people with the aim of ensuring healthy lives and promoting well- being at all ages.

INEC and unending poll postponement

INEC and unending poll postponement

FEBRUARY 16, 2019 has become a date Nigerians may never forget in their calendars. It was indeed an exceptionally ‘inactive’ Saturday in history: without any wedding ceremonies, launchings, burials or any events across the nation. Nigeria’s electoral umpire, the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, had scheduled the Presidential and National Assembly elections on the date, but at the 11th hour dashed the high hopes of the populace who had waited earnestly to either renew or reassign mandates to candidates of their choice.

Why it must be Buhari/Osinbajo this Saturday!

Why it must be Buhari/Osinbajo this Saturday!

We find it most insulting to the sensibilities of Nigerians that those who pillaged our resources, raped our treasury and destroyed our country due to their incurable addiction to corruption and fanatical dedication to mismanagement have the nerve to ask our people to return them to power.