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The Nativity: Why Mary belongs to us all

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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Joe Igbokwe: Igbo ethnic bigotry and hate campaigns worry me

Joe Igbokwe: Igbo ethnic bigotry and hate campaigns worry me

Ever since President Buhari won the 2015 Presidential elections he was destined to win having labored in 2003, 2007, 2011 and then 2015 a very vast preponderance of South South and South East indigenes have descended on the President, pouring invective, calling him names, abusing his person and his exalted office, preaching hate, and ethnic divisions.

Ugwuanyi’s era of economic renaissance

Ugwuanyi’s era of economic renaissance

THE sudden fall of oil price has exposed Nigeria’s economic foundation as a mono-economy and heterogeneous one with so many financial faulty lines. The unsustainability of the current ‘feeding bottle federalism’ as propagated by the Deputy Senate President,

Edo 2016: Interrogating the credibility of an electoral process

Edo 2016: Interrogating the credibility of an electoral process

IT is no secret that the political terrain in Edo State has taken the shape of a messy pile of cards with each passing day. With less than eight weeks to the governorship election, the ruling party and its opposition seem to be playing a game of Russian roulette within their own party structures, in a last jostle to secure the top job at Osadebey Avenue.

Re: David did not kill Goliath

Re: David did not kill Goliath

One may not name the names of those who, in attempts to prove Aribisala wrong in his “David did not kill Goliath” contestation; instead one may frown at their unacademic responses against academic papers like Aribisala’s. “Aribisala is a Satan.” How, really, is Aribisala a Satan? “Aribisala is Antichrist.” How is he Antichrist? This discourse, fighting against calling him names, seeks to prove him wrong.