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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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Television repeats: who isn’t a fan?

Television repeats: who isn’t a fan?

Pop culture is relentless in giving access to virtually limitless entertainment. With the eager anticipations to season finales and binge-watching episodes, the question ‘’why do people watch the same thing over and over again,”? has been at the hearts and minds of many for years. Viewers have sought out familiar entertainment for specific reasons, with one of them being to recapture lost feelings of nostalgia.

More investors and Azura-Edo power plant

More investors and Azura-Edo power plant

IT was much of a cheery news coming from the Edo State Government during the yuletide season that the Azura-Edo Independent Power Project, IPP, has just begun generation of electricity seven months ahead of schedule, thus adding yet another feather in the cap of the Wake and See Edo State Governor, Mr. Godwin Nogheghase Obaseki.

Abia APC rally, A journey back to Egypt

Abia APC rally, A journey back to Egypt

Typical of a political party that does nothing right and gets everything wrong, the All Progressives Congress, APC, finally announces its readiness to hold what it terms a “mega rally” in Abia state after postponing the said rally several times in the past due to unending internal wrangling and a fear of embarrassment it might suffer from the poor attendance that was obvious to be the lot of such a rally.

A hollow presidential broadcast

A hollow presidential broadcast

When the felicitous presidential spokesman, Femi Adesina, gave hint of a New Year presidential broadcast billed for Monday 1 January, majority of Nigerians hissed and heaved in utter despondency. Even the robustly complacent claque in the nation’s corridors of power must have yawned and looked at one another in pampered aloofness knowing that the presidential broadcast would cut no ice. A few days earlier, presidential sidekicks had aired an absurd documentary unimaginatively woven around what they called the human side of President Muhammadu Buhari. The video ran on major television channels to the indignation of Nigerians. The promoters of the documentary must have set out to pull a public relations stunt for a regime whose popularity has plummeted.