Opinion

The emergency rule option

The emergency rule option

May 22, 2013, 1 Comment

President Goodluck Jonathan, last week, took a decisive step on the terrorism and insecurity troubling ...

Entertainment

Life is all about giving –Onari Duke

Life is all about giving –Onari Duke

May 20, 2013, 4 Comments

Like former United States president, Jimmy Carter, who has dedicated his life since leaving the ...

We’re committed to providing gainful employment to Nigerians – Ahmed Maswood

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My perception about Nigeria has changed –FES Nigeria Rep

Abuja’s paparazzi fast money business

Gospel according to Oyinkus: It’s gospel lyrics or nothing

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Glo X Factor: Ghanaian twins set to storm Nigeria

Kunle Afolayan takes Nollywood to Japan

10 years after, Next Movie Star’s Sola Fajobi gets first child

Grammy nominee, Maimouna Youssef, Dapo Dina for Jazz Hole

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The book of lamentation ‘I grieve ‘cause Achebe inspired me, but died few days to my book launch’– Chukwu, UNILAG don

Meeting of minds

Student broadcasters hold Edo listeners spell bound

The Kwankwasiyya phenomenon

 

Farewell, Chinua Achebe

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Backpage/Columns

Our friends, the police

Our friends, the police

I know I should be talking about the state of emergency currently in place in three states of the federation. I know I should be talking about two or three other states which have also earned the emergency rule regime but which were spared  the presi[...]

Northern elders doing their best to demonise Jonathan

Northern elders doing their best to demonise Jonathan

There is something eminently wrong with the pressure group known as the Northern Elders Forum. Days after President Goodluck Jonathan declared a state of emergency in Borno, Yobe and Adamawa states, this vague organisation of elders described the eme[...]

Why nations fail (2)

Why nations fail (2)

Last week, we made the point that nations where the ruling class is not accountable to the people, where the ruling “narrow elite have organized the society for their own benefit at the expense of the vast mass of people,” where such elite cannot eas[...]

Which gods must be appeased?

Which gods must be appeased?

Modern Nigeria’s crisis, I suggest, is primarily a crisis of values. In Umuofia, Okonkwo may give vent to unruly deportment but his community is also equipped with the coercive instrument for regulating his conduct or punishing his excesses. Okonk[...]

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