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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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Delta 2015: Power shift or credible leadership

THE inability of our leaders past and present to practice the Aristotelian concept of the pursuit of the greatest good for the largest number, altruistic commitment, failure to see the Nation, state and local Government Area as one constituency under their leadership etc has given rise to what sociologist call structural distrust, mistrust and fears.

Boko Haram is everyone’s responsibility

THE senseless massacre of innocent students at the Federal Government College, Yobe, on monday February 24, 2014, has again brought to fore, the hopelessness of our defense capabilities.

Is pornography harmless or toxic to Nigerians?

MOST video sellers stock it; they know their customers who often are hooked to it, but no one discusses it, although everyone knows it is there growing, catching young converts and destroying them slowly. Religion pulpits avoid it for fear of offending membership, and the world is awash with it.

Edo politics and tale of the three Tonys

EDO STATE is unique in many ways, one of which is that it is the only state in the country whose governor is addressed as the Comrade Governor, drawing from his past as the number one Labour leader in the country.

Final letter to Dame Jonathan on the NNPC missing fund

THIS third and last letter on SLS [Sanusi Lamido Sanusi] and the missing fund at the NNPC is reaching you after the man has been suspended; albeit sacked, as that was the path Justice Ayo Salami, the former President of Court of Appeal, followed. Even at that, the suspension cannot down-grade the importance, in quantity of content, of this third letter.

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