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Jul

20

2025

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Insecurity: The Narrative Is Changing In Nimbo And Eha Amufu

Opinion

By SHEDDY OZOENE It is not always that any arm of the nation’s security apparatus gets praised in the pages of newspapers. It is compelling to do so today, and the Enugu State office of the Directorate of State Security (DSS) gets the prize for the manifest results of its contributions in managing insecurity in the state. It may be too early in the day to say that the threat of insecurity in the state has fully been arrested, but much progress has been made in recent months, especially in the key flashpoints of Nimbo and Eha Amufu. The DSS…

Jul

20

2025

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Love Story Of One Gone, Not Forgotten

Opinion

By OREVA GODWIN It gladdens my heart that the mere thought of writing this article puts a smile on my face. Your handsome face is forever etched in my heart. My lookalike, my first true love. My mentor. My joy. Loving you was so easy because you were a good man. Today, I declare my love for you again and remind you, even though you're gone, that you are not forgotten. Godwin Ukoko was an amazing father and a loving husband. He made our house a home built on love, unity, and support. In his words to my older siblings:…

Jul

18

2025

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BUHARI: The Making Of A Tragic Hero

Opinion

BY ABRAHAM OGBODO Finally, President Mohammadu Buhari died on July 13, 2025. He wasn’t quite the coward alluded to by William Shakespeare in Julius Caeser. But he had died many times before his real death last Sunday. In the build-up to the 2015 presidential election, the state of his health was about the only campaign issue in the opposing camp. Senate President, Godswill Akpabio, then a pretentious promoter of President Goodluck Jonathan, had expressed deep worries. He said his own mother who was of the same age as Buhari, was suffering various forms of age-induced incapacitation and that Buhari, as…

Jul

17

2025

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Musings on Muhammadu Buhari

Opinion

By Azu Ishiekwene I met him several times after he became Nigeria’s president in 2015, but the meetings did not change my impression of him as an enigma. Yet, as history peels back layer after layer of Muhammadu Buhari’s place, we may discover the essence of his beguiling simplicity. Tight-lipped and taciturn, a soldier in bearing and character, his life was marked by complex dimensions that shaped his political and personal trajectory. Escape routeBorn on December 17, 1942, in Daura, northwest Nigeria, in a region now fraught with banditry and violent crimes, Buhari began his military career by joining the Nigerian…

Jul

16

2025

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Buhari Was Neither A Good Man Nor A Good President

Opinion

BY DOMINIC KIDZU The Nigerian political and busines elite are insuferably pretentious and miserably hypocritical to the dead, in the way they pay them generous epithets that tell little of the story of their lives, in retrospect. Unfortunately, one of my overarching bankruptcies is that I am unable to put on a bold face to these ungainly platitudes; base fawnings, false affectation and what some might tragically call crocodile tears. I thank the Almighty that history is written with the ink of cold, hard, immutable facts, not sentiment, or the tongue-tied monologue of the usually lice- infested memory of politicians…

Jul

13

2025

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You’re Impressed With Enugu Air? Well, ‘You Ain’t Seen Nothin’ Yet’

Entertainment, Opinion

By SHEDDY OZOENE Some colloquial statements find a way to creep into everyday use. The phrase, ‘You Ain’t Seen Nothin’ Yet’ is one of those; it became a popular idiom in everyday usage largely due to its repeated use in popular music, entertainment and lately politics, where it gained traction for expressing the idea that something bigger, more surprising, or more impressive is still to come. In classical terms, it is a double negative, which we are taught is positive, but it has been understood for what it is. The Canadian Rock band, BTO, helped popularize it in the early…

Jul

13

2025

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The Rotten Apples At Louis Edet House

Opinion

FESTUS ADEDAYO Sometime in the early 2000s, at the cusp of Tafa Balogun’s glory as the Inspector General of Police, an oil magnate from a Southwest riverine area was arrested. He was travelling into the state capital from his riverine part of the country. It was at nocturne. The oil magnate, who moved like an Oba, was in a convoy of cars. Inside the car was a falange of private security persons. They were armed to the teeth with sophisticated weapons. It was obvious that this Oba-like man was into oil bunkering as well. At a checkpoint, the police stopped…

Jul

12

2025

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(OPINION) COALITION BEWARE : Tinubu Is Not Jonathan

Opinion, Politics

BY ABRAHAM OGBODO . The one that is already in and seated is called APC. The one that is outside and itching to be admitted to unseat the one that is seated is called ADC. The difference is in the displacement and replacement of letters P and D. On the surface, this distinction lacks the firmness to affect a clear choice. This means that either of the entities can go or stay, and nothing significant will be lost in content. It is the same as saying that if, per adventure, ADC replaces APC in 2027, it will look like replacing…

Jul

11

2025

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By Felix Duru Mbah

Opinion: VP Shettima Must Not Be Underestimated

Opinion

By Jibreel Muhammad Babangoshi With what I saw from the VP yesterday, he’s ready to give it to Mr. President and the cabals with a bonus just like the Iranian Ballistic Missiles against Israel. Shettima is not a coward and does not look like one. He’s smart, intelligent, witty and outspoken. He’s a Kanuri man who endures for a year or two and it seems he’s ready for this cold war. He systematically opened a can of worms by attacking the first Nuclear facility (Rivers' State of Emergency and the Attorney General ) and I pray Mr. Wike will not…

Jul

08

2025

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Sex Lives Of Circumcised Women

Health, Lifestyle, Opinion

By OREVA GODWIN Female genital mutilation (FGM), also known as female circumcision, refers to all procedures involving partial or total removal of the female external genitalia or other injury to the female genital organs for non-medical reasons. It is most often carried out on young girls between infancy and age 14. In every form in which it is practised, FGM is a violation of girls’ and women’s fundamental human rights, including their rights to health, security, and dignity. FGM has no health benefits and can lead to serious, long-term complications and even death. Immediate health risks include haemorrhage, shock, infection,…