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THE intention may have been noble when the former President, Gen. Olusegun Obasanjo sowed the seed of the Lagos – Calabar Coastal Highway in 2006. For...
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Give or take, we are 60 days away from what could turn out to be a hotly contested presidential election. The signs of what will be...
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FIRST thing first. A confession. I was neither a supporter nor a believer in the candidacy of General Muhammadu Buhari prior to the elections of 2015....
IT no longer feels that this place is Nigeria. But the space is still occupied by Nigerians. It used to be thought that Nigerians were smart...
JUST about time the world took notice. Mazi Nnamdi Kanu is the leader of the self determination Independent People of Biafra [IPOB]. To be sure Kanu...
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NO country should be so unfortunate to acquire the dubious distinction of being a huge and rolling crime scene and a killing field at the same...
HE is not known to be frivolous. He does not hug the headlines. He is a lawyer, a senior one at that. But he is not...
“I AM proud of our security forces, our men and women in uniform. Despite a myriad of security challenges, they are living up to the billing....
SLAM dunk is a basketball term. Ordinarily, it means a shot in which a player thrusts the ball down through the basket. In that situation the...
The choice of the date for the commencement of the latest and ongoing strike of the Academic Staff Union of [Nigerian] Universities [ASUU] was uncanny. The...
IT would appear that because of the All Progressives Congress [APC] regime, Nigerians have been led to make a pact with troubles. And the troubles come...
When FINGERPRINTS column returned last week we conversed about the season under the headline- ‘Nigeria’s King Herod this Christmas’. We paid no heed to anything or...
