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Osinbajo to church leaders: concerns about CAMA can be addressed through an amendment by National Assembly

By Ele Ifah Sunday August 28, 2020 153 0

“We are in a democracy, there is a process by which things can be done” In an effort to allay fears expressed by the leadership of the Church about the recently enacted Companies and Allied Matters Act (CAMA) 2020, Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, SAN has said concerns can be processed through possible amendment of the […]Continue Reading

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State Theft, Cronyism and Civil Right Violations: Inside the Hidden Horrors of the CAMA 2020 Bill

By Ele Ifah Sunday August 28, 2020 178 Post a comment

By David Hundeyin Imagine you woke up from a bad dream yesterday, only to find out that you are in another bad dream today. Then you wake up from it tomorrow, only to find yourself in another bad dream, which gives way to yet another nightmare and so on in that manner, like an everlasting […]Continue Reading

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‘How media abandoned IDPs’

By Ele Ifah Sunday August 27, 2020 203 0

(A review of ‘Managing Internal Displacement Crisis in Nigeria’)   By Theophilus Abbah, PhD Introduction: An African proverb says ‘pregnancy can never be hidden with bare hands.’ Springing from the imagery and significance of this proverb, and in the context of internal displacements in Nigeria, one could say it corresponds with the society’s attitude to this […]Continue Reading

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The DPRK Seen through Questions

By Ele Ifah Sunday August 26, 2020 137 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 order of things’

By Ele Ifah Sunday August 26, 2020 201 0

By Obadiah Mailafia There was a storm in a teacup the other day. It involved, shall we say, yours sincerely. Life itself, as I’m sure my gentle readers would agree, is a risk. Once in a while, you have to wager some big risks. The philosopher Aristotle famously declared that for you to have absolutely […]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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Boko Haram, Zulum’s eruptions and classified outbursts

By Ele Ifah Sunday August 14, 2020 179 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 167 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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Nigeria-China loans: This is my story

By Theophilus Abbah August 11, 2020 176 0

By Theophilus Abbah A hot and deadly arrow flying across Nigeria over Chinese loans hit my heart and mind last Friday, destabilizing my weekend, and leaving me with bleary eyes. The arrow was very devastating because, like every victim of misfortune, I did not forecast it. As the debate on the sovereignty clause in Chinese […]Continue Reading

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Omole’s ground-breaking approach to literary linguistics

By Ele Ifah Sunday August 11, 2020 223 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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One by one those senators are departing

By Ele Ifah Sunday August 10, 2020 223 0

By Eric Teniola With the passage of Senator Ayomide Fasanmi (September 27, 1925 to July 29, 2020) the number of the ninety-five Senators, who served between October 1979 to October 1983, still alive has been reduced. I covered that Senate until Major General Muhammadu Buhari (rtd.), GCFR, terminated democracy in Nigeria on December 31st, 1983. […]Continue Reading

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Reorganising Nigeria’s Left Politics

By Ele Ifah Sunday July 23, 2020 157 0

By Edwin Madunagu There is a contradiction between an enduring desire of the Nigerian Left (the aggregate of Nigerian Marxists, socialists, and fragments of radical democrats), on the one hand, and the actual history of Nigeria’s Left politics on the other. That contradiction can be stated like this: Nigerian Leftists have always hoped to found […]Continue Reading