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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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Is CAN still relevant?

IT is a common knowledge that before the Christian Association of Nigeria was formed, Protestants and Roman Catholics in Nigeria were not on best of terms, as far as inter-religious dialogue is concerned.

The old lion roars back

A RECENT news item caught my attention ‘the deposed Sultan of Sokoto, Alhaji Ibrahim Dasuki said  the 36 states and 774 local governments in the country were gulping so much of the nation’s resources and under developing the country. At a news conference to mark the 47 years of the late premier of the Northern Region, […]

Transformation agenda and SAFE initiative at FMC Umuahia

THE current state of the country’s healthcare system can be said to be quite worrisome, judging by the health indicators and statistics that are abysmal. In fact, Nigeria’s health indicators have stagnated or even deteriorated during the past decade.

Ireto road

IRETO Road is a street in Sapele, famed timber capital of Nigeria. It is probably the safest neighborhood in the town and got its name from one Ireto, now late, the founder of Ireto Hotel now called Richards Continental Hotel, still one of the best hotels in Sapele. Ireto Road is a monument to underdevelopment, is flooded in the rainy season, a dust strip in the Harmattan, and perennially a road to hell for pedestrians and drivers alike.

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