By Femi Kusa If you have to assess a man or a woman for his or her networth, ignore the sounding brass and noise maker. Humility and being unassuming is the off shoot of greatness! Imagine what would have happened in Bethlehem on the night Baby Jesus was born if the wife of the governor […]
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Submerged house in Delta As floods recede after weeks of destruction and agony in parts of the country, homes, communities and businesses have started picking bits and pieces of ruins left behind. From Kebbi to Jigawa, Benue, and Rivers, cries of despair are as loud as they are deep. Bayelsa, Delta, Jigawa, Anambra and Niger […]
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By Jacob Akindele There is a discernible pattern of how things happen in our lives. From birth, we embark on the road of experience, in which one event leads to another. In every field of human endeavour, this pattern is constantly at play. As a person becomes cognizant of this never-failing working of life, he […]
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By Jacob Akindele In 2008, I read an article in The Guardian on Chinua Achebe’s ire toward his fatherland, in which the great writer was reminded that had he not been born in Igboland Nigeria, his masterpieces would not have arisen and captured by him for posterity “with such simplicity, potency and impact.” Many Nigerians […]
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By Jacob Akindele We speak of emotions, feelings, attitudes, perceptions and thoughts, the entirety of what goes on within us. Often, we endeavour to conceal from others, this inner life that determines behavior. It is strictly personal, consisting of reactions to external stimuli. It is the product of how the human entity had used its […]
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Fear, anger and condemnation trailed Tuesday night’s attack on the Kuje Correctional Centre in Abuja. Observers said if such a secured facility could be breached, with all 64 suspected Boko Haram commanders and other criminals freed, where else is safe? Terrorists on Tuesday night invaded the Medium Security Custodial Centre, Kuje, Abuja freeing several inmates, […]
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The hundreds of Nigerians convicted in foreign prisons were largely left with no legal assistance or no help from the Nigerian government to get a fair trial, the Legal Defence and Assistance Project has said. At a roundtable on ‘Moving Nigeria Towards the Abolition of the Death Penalty’ organized for the media and civil society […]
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In 2014, the Lagos Division of Court of Appeal approved the injunction by the Lagos State Government to stop the use of hijab in public schools. The judgment was given by Justice Grace Onyeabo of the High Court of Lagos State on October 17, 2014. It ruled that female Muslim students should not use hijab […]
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Kaduna, Nigeria’s “Centre of Learning,” is host to many military institutions and formations, including the Nigerian Defence Academy (NDA) and 1 Division, Nigerian Army. The military presence notwithstanding, many schools, like communities in the state, have been attacked by bandits and remain crippled, Abdulgafar Alabelewe reports. Armed Forces Command and Staff College, Jaji; Nigerian Air […]
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High Chief Ayo Olayinka J.P on seat with African-American Commandos on courtesy visit to HRH (Dr) Samson Adeleke Oke, the Ajalaye (Paramount Ruler of Ipetu-Ijesa Kingdom) in his Royal Palace In Ipetu-Ijesa, Osun State, Nigeria By Prof Kola Kesinro To use the words of Hon Oluwole Oke, the Member of Parliament (MP) representing Ijesa North […]
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