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The Nigerian Bar Association, its August guests, and the vacuum we must fill

The Nigerian Bar Association, its August guests, and the vacuum we must fill

Reflections on the 66th NBA Conference in Port Harcourt By Douglas Baye-Osagie The 66th Nigerian Bar Association Annual General Conference in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, will be remembered for many things. Not just the swearing in of the first elected female President of the Bar, Mrs. Oyinkansola Badejo-Okusanya, SAN, but also the quality of some […]
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Nigeria’s business sector and the change chant

Nigeria’s business sector and the change chant

NIGERIA has been known to have the largest economy in Africa (based on figures announced in April 2014) and the country is still striving to become one of the 20 largest economies in the world by 2020.

‘#BringBackOurGirls Now And Alive’

‘#BringBackOurGirls Now And Alive’

#BringBackOurGirls, BBOG, an dvocacy group formed after over 200 girls of Government Secondary School, Chibok, Borno State, were abducted, started with sit-outs to press for the rescue of the girls.

Hawks and the new govt

Hawks and the new govt

COME May 29, General Muhammadu Buhari, Rtd,GMB, will occupy the throne of Nigeria, in Aso Rock. Guards , most if not all things that connect with President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan,GEJ,in terms of taste of furnishing, worship in the Aso Chapel, personnel, will go, except for his picture that will graciously take its place among the line of former presidents.

Buhari’s victory and the lessons for Nigerians

Buhari’s victory and the lessons for Nigerians

WITH God all things are possible. If men were God, something bad would have happened, but men are not God and can never be. The above assertion underscores the victory of the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (rtd) in the just concluded presidential poll. The outcome of the poll is a big lesson, an eye opener to every Nigerian irrespective of your religion, status and tribe.

Igbo and the fallacy of Mbaka’s God’s vindication

Igbo and the fallacy of Mbaka’s God’s vindication

THE 1967-70 Nigeria Civil War, for the Igbo was a battle of historic survival against the forces of national darkness that roamed in the form of periodic unrestrained anti-Igbo riots and massacres, and subsequently the chilling pogrom of 1969.

Activating the Ministry of Angels

Activating the Ministry of Angels

God cannot lie and He promised believers in Psalm 37:4 as follows ‘delight yourself in the LORD, and he will give you the desires of your heart’. Yet, despite such a powerful promise, all over Christendom, many believers experience lack because they do not know how to activate the ministry of angels by saying an effective prayer. And since they do not know how to pray an effective prayer they are unable to transfer their burdens from their weak shoulders to the titanic shoulder of God.

Tribute to a hero

Tribute to a hero

THE titans clashed. The battle was lost and won. The winner celebrated. The loser conceded victory. The latter did not just stop there. He even went further to celebrate the winner (Quite unusual, wouldn’t you say?).

Time to tame iconoclasts (1)

Time to tame iconoclasts (1)

ICONOCLASTS are fundamentalist jihadists, purists, conservative promoters of intolerance, invasive agents of pulverization who are dismissive and disdainful of the other in any identifiable permutation except their own parochial fanatical beliefs, convictions and theories. Having built, elevated and transformed pulverization into statecraft, daily drawing thousands into it like a whirlpool, iconoclasts are indeed the canoe […]

Senate presidency: Akume as  bride

Senate presidency: Akume as bride

WITH the pendulum of the Nigerian intricate power calculus swinging in favour of the opposition All Progressives Congress,APC following its victory in the March 28, 2015 presidential and National Assembly polls, the question as to who and who would emerge as new leaders of the 8th Senate and the 8th House of Representatives, respectively, remains a matter for grave national concern.

What’s next after Buhari’s victory

What’s next after Buhari’s victory

ONE of the happiest moments for many Nigerians was when the cool-headed Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, Professor Attahiru Jega, finally announced the candidate of the All Progressives Congress, General Muhammadu Buhari, as the winner of the just-concluded presidential election in the country.