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When knowledge produces casualties

When knowledge produces casualties

By VICTOR-BANDELE DADA Humanity has never possessed as much knowledge, technology and productive capacity as it does today. Yet millions remain hungry, billions struggle with inadequate housing or insecure livelihoods, and countless people are excluded from the opportunities that could transform their lives. Why does this happen? If knowledge is supposed to improve human existence, […]
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Who, if not Atiku?

Who, if not Atiku?

There is the ‘History’ and there is the ‘Past’. History is not the Past, even though it belongs to the Past. According to the British novelist and story writer, “the Past is a foreign country. They do things differently there.” 

More than lovers, play!

More than lovers, play!

By Seun Adeyemi Hey! Let us start this with a question for you. When last did you both play? By play, I don’t mean sex! So again… When last did you play as kids do? Yesterday? Last week? Last month? Or never? O well, come with me. Perhaps you’re both too busy playing daddy & mummy that […]

Alex Otti, Abia and The Day of Glory

Alex Otti, Abia and The Day of Glory

Abians are far wiser today than they ever were. They have since done their arithmetic and arrived at the sum that, all the money earned by Abia for two decades simply went down the tube. That explains why they have sworn to put an end to the evil reign of the Locust.

Otoge lands  in Delta

Otoge lands in Delta

Following the inauguration of the APC gubernatorial campaign and flag off on January 19, 2019, the ‘push’ of electioneering has come to ‘shove’ in Delta State. It is no longer about ‘whether APC and Chief Great Ogboru can deliver’; it is now about the ‘quality of what Ogboru will deliver to the good people of Delta State’.

Revisiting the Jubril el-Sudaniya narrative

Revisiting the Jubril el-Sudaniya narrative

A number of dramatic incidents have been recorded since President Muhammadu Buhari came out on the hustings, preparatory to the February 16 presidential election. Those incidents have compelled a revisit of the Jubril el-Sudaniya narrative. Politicians’ imaginations are fertile in the making of propaganda and deployment of the same in demonising the other camp and its members.