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Support the President and JTF In our own interest –1
By Dele Sobowale NOTE: The two columns below were started on Sunday, May 12, 2013 - before the President's declaration of Emergency Rule in three states of Nigeria. More than ever, and despite the risks and dangers which could result from the measure taken by the President, I still believe that he needs our support to bring this war to an end. If for no other reason than that the ...
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Facts and fallacies about marriage
By Douglas Anele All this indicates that those who look up to religion for guidance on the issue of marriage are liable to make serious mistakes. There is strong evidence from psychology most especially psychoanalysis that obsessive and irrational condemnation of sexual freedom by most founders of religion is due to a combination of superstitious beliefs about sex and thwarting of natural ...
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Berlusconi goes to prison
By Denrele Animasaun "Our great democracies still tend to think that a stupid man is more likely to be honest than a clever man" -Bertrand Russell. It seems the Teflon Don is finally getting his judicial just desserts or so it seems. On Monday when the Italian prosecutors demanded that the former Italian President Silvio Berlusconi, should be handed a prison sentence as well as a ...
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Battle of The ‘Evil Forest’ Edo police boss versus kidnappers armed robbers
By SIMON EBEGBULEM, Benin City For some time now, armed robbers and kidnappers have taken over an area referred to as "Evil Forest" located along the Benin-City bypass, and seen as a haven for criminal activities. Luxury buses plying the East-Lagos routes have on many occasions been attacked, passengers robbed and women raped in the area. Those who resist are killed. Families of many ...
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Corruption is direct cause of poverty —Lardner
By OLAYINKA AJAYI Following the high rate of poverty ravaging the country, Tunji Lardner, a social commentator and a convener for good governance had lamented how corrupt leaders had caused abject poverty for Nigerians. Lardner however added that what Nigerians are facing is as a result of corrupt leaders that had mismanaged public funds. Speaking at a seminar organised by the West African ...
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Olayinka Oladunjoye Revamping education in Lagos State
BY JOSEPHINE IGBINOVIA Barr. (Mrs.) Olayinka Oladunjoye, the Honourable Commissioner for Education in Lagos State, is the visionary behind the mind-blowing reforms on-going across the state's education sector. In this exclusive chat with Vista Woman, she talks abouther ministry's strides since 2011, and also its plans for the future. ...
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When is it good to be poor
By Tonnie Iredia Different write-ups attract different readers. While some people prefer light-hearted articles that relax the mind, other persons that are often described as 'serious' readers are hardly interested in storylines. Rather, they want the point to be quickly but logically made. What such persons tend to overlook however, is the ease with which stories enhance the quality ...
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Coming up for air
By Debbie Olujobi Swimming is a sport that looks deceptively easy; it employs hitherto lazy muscles to labour and the water tricks the joints into acrobatics that is impossible other wise. I find moving underwater the most fun and I stay under as long as possible but I come up for air because I don’t belong there. I am a creature whose primary domain is land. I walk and swimming is but a ...
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Governing Katsina is not a tea party affair – Gwajo-Gwajo
Honorable Yau Gwajo-Gwajo is serving his second term as Speaker, Katsina State House of Assembly. In this interview, he says the parliament is not a rubber stamp to the executive even as he speaks on how the lawmakers are collaborating with the Ibrahim Shehu Shema administration to move the state ...
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SportsGuard When journalists are no longer stakeholders
By Patrick Omorodion I didn't want to bog readers with the news that yours sincerely was appointed into the Board of the Nigeria Basketball Federation, NBBF as one of the Stakeholders of the game but something has necessitated it hence I am writing on it today. The National Sports Commission, NSC, at the expiration of the tenure of the Sports Association Boards decided to reconstitute ...
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Asiodu On institutional memory
By Obi Nwakanma Philip Chukwuedo Asiodu is one of those Nigerians you might rightly call an old civil service mandarin. These were of the cadre known in the Yakubu Gowon administration in Nigeria as "super perm secretaries." I think the "super"in the Permanent Secretary came from "supernumerary" and it does locate the stature and situation of the office at its ...
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Clark vs Orubebe Associates aides in proxy war
BY EMMA AMAIZE SINCE South-South leader, Chief Edwin Clark, exploded, May 9, against the Minister of Niger-Delta, Elder Godsday Orubebe, over the alleged ambition of the latter to become the governor of Delta State in 2015, associates and aides of the two prominent politicians have withdrawn to the trenches in different parts of the state from where they have been firing sporadic shots. A ...
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Secrets of Delta State’s leadership in sports – Pinnick
Amaju Melvin Pinnick, chairman of the Delta State Sports Commission, here spoke with ISAAC OLAMIKAN on the secret behind the string of successes the state has achieved in recent National Sports Festivals and other ...
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APC ‘How merging parties will harmonise positions’
ONE of the brains behind the merger that produced All Progressive Congress, APC and a former deputy governor of Jigawa State, Ibrahim Hadejia (who at a time was the state attorney general secretary to the state government), says nobody can stop an idea whose time has come adding that, by the end of November, the party would have been fully operational. Hadeja a lawyer and banker, is a member of ...
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Beyond emergency rule in Borno Yobe Adamawa
By Dele Agekameh The declaration of a state of emergency by the President in the three states of Yobe, Borno and Adamawa is a welcome development. Although, in actual fact, it is overdue, but it is never too late. Considering the number of people who have died in the hands of the Boko Haram insurgents, nothing is too much to bring peace to these affected states, and for that matter, the whole ...
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NPA restricts movement into Lagos ports
The Nigerian Ports Authority has said as from Tuesday next week only people with electronic port pass or means of identification issued by the approved authorities will be allowed into the ports in ...
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Nigeria military declares 24-hour curfew in Maiduguri
curfew on Saturday on neighborhoods in a northeastern city that's the spiritual home of an Islamic extremist network as soldiers continued the government's emergency campaign in the region, with authorities saying they killed 10 suspected insurgents. A statement Saturday on behalf of Lt. Col. Sagir Musa named 11 areas ...
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Lorry crushes FRSC official in Imo
By Chidi Nkwopara A female official (names withheld) of Imo State Command of the Federal Road Safety Corps, FRSC, was, at the weekend, crushed by a tipper lorry, just as Governor Rochas Okorocha expressed deep shock over the tragedy that befell Umudagu, Ihitte Isi Mbieri community in Mbaitoli local council area, on Thursday night. The Mbieri tragedy followed a torrential rain that was ...
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‘Over 20 lecturers relations kidnapped in Delta varsity’
CHAIRMAN, Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, Delta State University, DELSU, Abraka branch, Dr. Emmanuel Mordi, at the weekend, said at least 20 lecturers, their spouses and relations, had been kidnapped in the last two years by gunmen. He stated this in Abraka while briefing the Commissioner of Police in the state, Mr. Ikechukwu Aduba, who visited the university, just as the Vice ...
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Nigeria needs to focus on grassroot sports devt – Akiojano
By Ephraim Oseji Felix Akiojano is a former football defender from Nigeria. He played for Pedro FC in Sapele, Concord FC Abeokuta and now coach of Jaipur football club of India. In this interview with Sports Extravaganza, he revealed how he rose from grass to grace, his sojourn in India and why Nigeria needs to lay more emphasis on football academy. Excerpts: "All my life, I have always ...
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Calabar 2014 Team Lagos Chess opens camp
The Lagos State Chess Association has invited 15 players to commence camping preparatory to the 2014 National Sports Festival to be hosted by Cross River State in Calabar.. The camp opened yesterday at the Teslim Balogun Stadium and officials of the LSCA say they are embarking on early preparations to improve on the Team Lagos Chess performance at the last festival hosted by the State. ...
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Rivers The gathering storm by Itse Sagay
Since the rumour that Governor Rotimi Amaechi of Rivers State is nursing an ambition to be the next vice president to a northern presidential candidate in 2015 started circulating, many disturbing developments have occurred. Whether this rumoured ambition is true or not, it is totally irrelevant. The truth is that every Nigerian over the age of 40 is entitled to aspire to be president or vice ...
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I planned to spend just one year in the university – Pat Utomi
BY FEYI BANKOLE He is popular for his proclamation, "Nigeria has no business being poor!". Christened Patrick Okedinachi Utomi but largely known as Pat Utomi, our inspirational guest is a passionate entrepreneur and social activist. After a brief career in journalism, Patrick was appointed a Special Assistant on Political Affairs in Alhaji Shehu Shagari's administration which was ...
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Clark solely made Orubebe minister – Evah
Comrade Joseph Evah, coordinator, Ijaw Monitoring Group (MIG) and former Publicity Secretary, Ijaw National Congress (INC), in this interview, speaks on the state of the ...
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Woman seeks divorce for lack of sexual satisfaction by husband
By Adeola Adenuga A former airline cashier, Mrs Grace Oguche, pleaded with an Agege Grade 'A' Customary Court, Lagos to dissolve her seven-year old marriage to her husband, Mr Maxwell Madu, over his alleged poor performance in bed and being unemployed. "Ever since we got married, I hardly enjoyed sex with my husband", she said in her testimony in chief. My husband does not ...
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Nigeria calling on US for misconception help
Nigeria is one of the main producers of drug lords and immigrants and is beset by political instability and groans under the weight of poverty and human strife. At least, this is the perception many in the world have, a perception that is all too narrow in its scope.
Nigeria has an enduring reputation as an exporter of criminals, drug lords, terrorists and immigrants. Such perceptions are only amplified by the recent attempted bombing of a US-bound plane on Christmas Day by Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, a Nigerian, or the arrests every year of various Nigerian drug lords in countries around the world. Read more
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