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The dark side of our migration

The dark side of our migration

THE rate at which Nigerians are migrating to other parts of the world has become an issue of great concern, particularly because the consequences of such mass exodus  would have such telling effect on the future of our nation, albeit negatively. But this is not supposed to be so as one cannot divorce development of nations from the great contributions from migrants.

AFP’s unfavourable report of Nigerian army’s fight against Boko Haram

AFP’s unfavourable report of Nigerian army’s fight against Boko Haram

The Nigerian military is in a bind. It makes progress in its war on Boko Haram insurgents in the country’s northeast only to see the progress relatively rolled back by forces that appear to have defied all efforts directed at making them relent and allow Nigeria have peace.

Patrick Ifeanyi Ubah : Celebrating the birth of an enigma

Patrick Ifeanyi Ubah : Celebrating the birth of an enigma

When on the 3rd of September, 1971, a son was born into the humble family of Mr & Mrs Alphonsus Ubah in Aba, the commercial nerve centre of today’s Abia State, little did the world know that a man that had been destined by Divinity to shape events of men and affect lives in tremendous several ways had just been born.

For a better Nigeria

For a better Nigeria

THE 1999 Constitution  strengthens the already choking powers of the Federal Government and whoever is in the office of the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. This Constitution, in truth, cannot be tagged a federal constitution, as it was before the advent of the military into Nigerian politics in January 15, 1966. Today we practise our democracy in a more or less unitary system of governance. It leaves us in an illusionary federation.