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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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Religious extremism and global genocide

By co-extensive reasoning “Islamic fundamentalism” cannot be truly fundamentalistic in countries or states that have strong pluralistic religious and political base except by force

Buhari, Winston Churchill and Obasanjo

Even before former President Olusegun Obasanjo released his now most famous letter I had my misgivings about how history would treat the government of Muhammadu Buhari. I once raised the issue with a senior colleague whom I know had similar fears about the trajectory of this government and he dismissed it in the following words: ‘I guess if the President goes on like this he might end up getting the Winston Churchill treatment’. I knew exactly what he was talking about. Winston Churchill was the 2nd World War hero who led Britain through some of their darkest hours to victory, but ended up defeated in the very first election after the war.

Dr Alex Ifeanyichukwu Ekwueme, GCON

CHIEF (Dr.) Alex Ifeanyi- chukwu Ekwueme, the Ide of Aguata, was a great hero, a rare gem and an outstanding politician of high integrity and principles, which is very rare in Nigeria. It hit me hard when I received the shocking notification on the morning of November 20th 2017, that Ide had passed on.

Rejection of Edo PDP can never be upturned

Edo State Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), a party comprised of bandits, rogues, liars and simpletons are struggling to market their inherently defective product to Edo people.

After Umeh’s senatorial triumph

THE argument wasn’t on whether or not Victor Umeh would emerge victorious in the January 13, 2018 Anambra Central Senatorial rerun election.

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