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The DPRK Seen through Questions

By Ele Ifah Sunday August 26, 2020 140 0

Those who visit the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea often encounter surprising realities.  Democr Are the Workers Really Living Here? There are sky-scraping apartment houses on Changjon Street with modern architectural beauty and workers’ dormitories at the Pyongyang Kim Jong Suk Textile Mill and Pyongyang Kim Jong Suk Silk Mill in the capital of the […]Continue Reading

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‘The states are dying’

By Ele Ifah Sunday August 19, 2020 198 0

By Eric Teniola There is a hardly a day that goes by now, that we don’t read in the media of billions of naira being stolen by an agency in the central government. The whole thing is sickening. The rate at which money is being stolen in the central government has become like a curse. […]Continue Reading

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Dangote Cement Promo Produces new 60 millionaires 60 new millionaires emerge in Dangote Cement Promo

By Ele Ifah Sunday August 17, 2020 203 0

The ongoing Dangote Cement Bag of Goodies Promo season 2 has produced 60 millionaires spread across the nation, thereby cushioning the effects and impact of COVID-19 on businesses and families, according to the company’s Director of Marketing, Mrs. Funmi Sanni. She said that more winners are expected to emerge in the coming weeks. She said […]Continue Reading

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Boko Haram, Zulum’s eruptions and classified outbursts

By Ele Ifah Sunday August 14, 2020 180 0

By Dr. Nuruddeen Muhammad “I have neither the time nor the inclination to explain myself to a man who rises and sleeps under the blanket of the very freedom that I provide and then questions the manner in which I provide it” That was Jack Nicholson when he starred as Col Nathan R Jessep in […]Continue Reading

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Times of Unprecedented Crisis Present Unique Opportunities for Unprecedented Action

By Ele Ifah Sunday August 13, 2020 169 0

By Graça Machel, Dr. Ngozi Okonjo–Iweala, Dr. Vera Songwe, and Maria Ramos COVID-19 has unearthed massive inequalities within our societies and brought to glaring light the unique burdens that women carry the world over. Allocation of response resources should be targeted towards the immediate needs of managing the virus as well as future-looking to simultaneously Continue Reading

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Omole’s ground-breaking approach to literary linguistics

By Ele Ifah Sunday August 11, 2020 227 Post a comment

BOOK REVIEW   Title:                            LINGUISTIC CRITICISM OF THE AFRICAN NOVEL Author:                        Kayode Omole Publisher:                    Bloom Media Network Ltd, Abuja, Nigeria Year of Publication:     2019 Number of Pages:       161 Reviewer:                    Prof Gbenga Ibileye   DISINTERING THE STYLISTICIAN’S PERSONA FROM HIS Continue Reading

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Aid workers’ execution: Zulum deeply pained, sends delegation to families

By Ele Ifah Sunday July 23, 2020 141 0

…Says victims died as heroes Borno Governor, Babagana Umara Zulum, is deeply pained by insurgents’ execution of aid workers whom he described as heroes that were gruesomely killed in the course of serving humanity. Zulum’s spokesman, Malam Isa Gusau, said in a statement released Thursday morning, that the Governor was informed of the execution on […]Continue Reading

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In Nigeria, African researchers blaze a trail in virus fight

By Ele Ifah Sunday July 17, 2020 187 0

“Strong people don’t put others down — they lift them up.” So says the discreet sign at the entrance to one of the most remarkable research facilities in Africa. Run by a Cameroon-raised, Harvard-trained molecular biologist, the African Centre of Excellence for Genomics of Infectious Diseases (ACEGID) has been at the forefront in the fight […]Continue Reading

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Regrouping Sokoto bandits force thousands out of their communities

By Ele Ifah Sunday July 13, 2020 223 0

Recent military operations in Sokoto has seen bandits regrouping away from their usual hideouts. In retaliation for aerial bombardments by the Nigerian Air Force, they have been attacking villages, displacing thousands of farmers.  Our correspondent speaks to some of the people displaced by this latest twist in the bandits’ crisis. Recent military bombardments of bandits’ Continue Reading

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Bag of Goodies Promo: past star prize winners eagerly await season 2 kick-off

By Ele Ifah Sunday July 13, 2020 169 0

…Commend Dangote for transforming their lives Previous winners of star prizes in the Bag of Goodies national consumer promo Season 1 done by Dangote Cement Plc in 2019 have expressed huge excitement over the approaching Season 2 version, which is billed to take off nationwide in July. The star winners, among the 40 lucky individuals […]Continue Reading

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For Soyinka at 86, and a scoop denied    

By Ele Ifah Sunday July 11, 2020 166 0

By Godwin Onyeacholem Just off Ozumba Mbadiwe Street in Victoria Island, immediately behind a cluster of residential apartments popularly known as 1004 flats, and directly opposite a quaint one-storey building on the other side of Adetokunbo Ademola Street, lay a row of bungalows finely spruced up with middle-class taste. It was in one of these […]Continue Reading

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Peculiar mode of development of Korea

By Theophilus Abbah July 7, 2020 163 0

The international community is showing special interest in the mode of development peculiar to the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK), which has followed the road of its choice without a single mistake and failure for over 70 years. When a nation takes its destiny in its own hands and carves it out by its […]Continue Reading