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Nov
08
2023
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PATRIOT, PACIFIST: Interrogating Peter Obi’s Speech

PATRIOT, PACIFIST: Interrogating Peter Obi’s Speech

Opinion
EXPRESSO 》By Steve Osuji Why did it take Peter Obi all of 10 day to speak up? This of course,  is the first point to note. In the rise and ebb of historic moments, timing could be everything. Like a surfer, you must catch the wave of events at its crest or lose the moment for good. This is why not a few Nigerians were troubled about Obi’s silence after the  Supreme Court  “miscarriage” on the last Presidential Election even though he is generally believed to have been robbed of the mandate.One day passed. One week passed. Many began to see…
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Oct
24
2023
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G-5: Running With The Hare, Hunting With The Hound

G-5: Running With The Hare, Hunting With The Hound

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By SHEDDY OZOENE Since the appointment of former Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike as Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, the thinking was that all will be calm at Wadata Plaza, headquarters of the opposition Peoples Democratic Party, PDP. Wike was believed to have found enough comfort in the ruling All Progressives Congress as to let PDP be. Those who think in that direction are wrong. It has become obvious that Wike and his team of some former PDP governors, codenamed G-5 or the Integrity Group, have more duties to perform. If they have helped bring the party to its…
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Oct
17
2023
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Gaza: Counting The ‘Dead’ Before They’re Killed

Gaza: Counting The ‘Dead’ Before They’re Killed

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SHEDDY OZOENE The State of Israel does not believe in the Biblical injunction of turning the other cheek when slapped. It does not even stop at the principle of reciprocal justice - an eye for an eye - as explained in the Books of Exodus and Leviticus. When you pluck an Israeli eye, be sure they'll retaliate by plucking your two eyes, shutting your mouth and leaving your nose bloodied. Since October 7, 2023, when the Islamic Resistance Movement popularly called HAMAS launched a surprise invasion of Israel, another chilling season of killings and destruction have returned to that familiar…
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Jul
19
2023
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Peter Obi Is Not A God

Peter Obi Is Not A God

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Chuks Iloegbunam uses the birthday of the Labour Party’s presidential candidate today, July 19, to celebrate him and the Obidient Movement By CHUKS ILOEGBUNAM Yes! There’s nothing they haven’t said of Peter Obi. They have charged that he is not a god. They have said he is no more than a political opportunist. They have ridiculed his promise to change Nigeria from consumer to producer. They pooh-poohed as unfounded the statistics the man churned out on successes abroad that could be replicated back home. But the traducers wouldn’t reckon with reality. The subject of their insistent lambasting never ascribed divinity…
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Jul
13
2023
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TUNDE RAHMAN: Rugged Pro Gets His Due

TUNDE RAHMAN: Rugged Pro Gets His Due

Entertainment, Media, Opinion
By TUNDE OLUSUNLE Non-initiates marvel at the peculiarity of the rapprochement which subsists between media practitioners, even when they differ in opinions and even political disposition. My very good friend and brother Segun Ayobolu served as Media Adviser to Bola Tinubu now President, when the latter was governor of Lagos State. Within the period, I was engaged in the Olusegun Obasanjo/Atiku Abubakar government, handling various briefs. Even at the height of the antagonism between the Lagos State Government and the Federal Government following the stoppage of remittance to the accounts of the Lagos government by the Obasanjo/Atiku milieu, the relationship…
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Jul
13
2023
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Before Alaigbo Becomes A Wasteland

Before Alaigbo Becomes A Wasteland

Opinion
By IKECHUKWU AMAECHI Yesterday, July 12, my secondary school classmate who lives in Germany sent me yet another sit-at-home notice from Simon Ekpa, the self-nominated Prime Minister of the Biafra Republic Government-in-Exile (BRGIE). Dated July 11, 2023, the notice read in part: “Following the demand by the Biafra people for more sit at home civil disobedience, the Biafra Republic Government-in-Exile (BRGIE) and Biafra De facto Government-in-Homeland wish to notify Biafrans that there will be sit-at-home civil disobedience starting from 31st July 2023 to 14th August 2023.” Claiming that Ndigbo want to continue sitting at home is a lie from the…
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Jul
07
2023
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Mmesoma: What Really Happened?

Mmesoma: What Really Happened?

Opinion
Mmesoma made the regrettable error of climbing the tree of her ambition beyond the leaf. And sadly, she has landed where there’s no road to medicine or pharmacy and she cannot continue to double down. Life is not over. With help, she can rise again. By Azu Ishiekwene I’m not sure what breaks the heart more: her insistence on her innocence or the prospects of a future that now hangs in the balance. For a young adult with a promising future, the emerging facts only suggest one thing: it doesn’t rain, it pours. Mmesoma Ejikeme was one of the numerous…
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Jun
30
2023
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Ruminations On Tinubu’s First 30 Days At The Helm

Ruminations On Tinubu’s First 30 Days At The Helm

Opinion
By TUNDE OLUSUNLE Whether the administration of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu is a substantive one or a "placeholder" to deploy a new addition to Nigeria's electoral lexicon, will be decided by the courts in the land. He was declared winner of the Saturday February 25, 2023 presidential election by Mahmood Yakubu, Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, (INEC). Two of the 18 political parties which participated in the poll and their candidates have since challenged the proclamation of Tinubu as true and authentic victor in that contest. The Peoples' Democratic Party, (PDP) and its presidential candidate, former Vice President…
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Jun
25
2023
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In Owerri, Nigerian Editors Repudiated The Idiocy Of Identity Politics

In Owerri, Nigerian Editors Repudiated The Idiocy Of Identity Politics

Media, Opinion
By IKECHUKWU AMAECHI  It is no longer news that the just concluded national bi-annual convention of the Nigerian Guild of Editors, NGE, which held in Owerri, Imo State capital, produced Eze Anaba, editor of the Vanguard newspaper as the new president. In the next two years, he and 15 other officers will run the affairs of the elite club of Nigerian editors. It is not going to be an easy task but editors are confident that the Anaba-led team will deliver. It turned out to be a Guild election like no other, with difficulties more fundamental than the normal schism…
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Jun
25
2023
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Senator Bulkachuwa vs Justice Bulkachuwa Shines Light On Judiciary

Senator Bulkachuwa vs Justice Bulkachuwa Shines Light On Judiciary

Opinion, Politics
By IKEDDY ISIGUZOA Major Commentator on Minor lssues NOTHING is wrong about spouses sharing confidences which should normally be private. Everything is wrong with such marital bonds where they result in possible intentional mis-carriage of justice. Still worse, is when one of the parties brags about his interference with judiciary processes as an achievement to be celebrated at the valedictory session of the Senate. Senator Adamu Muhammad Bulkachuwa chose 10 June 2023, his last day of representing Bauchi North, to thank his wife, and remind some of his colleagues that his wife assisted them. He would have said more if…
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