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Time To End Currency And Fuel Crises BY FEMI FALANA

The Federal Government has unleashed untold hardship on the masses of Nigeria through the unprecedented scarcity of the Naira, fuel scarcity, and skyrocketing rise in fuel prices. Fuel and currency scarcity is inexplicable and unacceptable. The Federal Government has shirked its obligation to guarantee the security and welfare of the Nigerian people as provided under

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We Are Sincerely Not The Same… BY AGBA JALINGO

I wake up every morning afraid that one day, I will be asked to renounce everything that makes me an African, or I won’t be allowed to live. By living, I mean, I won’t be allowed on a plane, I won’t be allowed in a mall, I won’t be allowed in a school, I won’t

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The Ben Ayade We Think We Know BY TOM OSHIE

There came a time in the Cross River State Political ecosystem particularly in the northern prairie when there was a need to go outside the usual dogs, moose, pronghorns, and other known biotic features. There was the need to test a rookie. More so, like an elk, he has branches of certificates in his head.

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The Oil Thieves Of Nigeria BY JAMES BARNETT

How a violent conflict in the resource-rich Niger Delta has wrought ecological and economic devastation for a generation. Listen to this story Play 00:00:0001:12:34 As the three women from Otuabagi tell it, the Niger Delta’s woes began with a simple yet consequential misunderstanding. The European engineers came to the village in 1956, four years before

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They Are Out For War… BY AGBA JALINGO

All the marriage haters on my timeline have gathered in my inbox and they are trolling me. They are advising me back and forth. They have even created a messenger group and added me so they can nurture me. I am not fighting with anyone. I just don’t want you people to enjoy the party

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Marriage: Blame Yourselves And Save The Future… BY AGBA JALINGO

We came to meet this Earth here. Whether we love to hear it or not, we will DIE one moment and others will enter and the Earth will remain. We have a duty to nurture and preserve the planet for those who are coming after us, in like manner that those who came before us

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I Hear So Much About ‘Ancestral Curses’ These Days – WITTY THOUGHT WITH KEN HENSHAW

This is a column by Ken Henshaw, Executive Director of We The People. WITTY THOUGHT is a brisk review of situations in Nigeria with the intent to revive social consciousness. I hear so much about ‘ancestral curses’ these days. It has become the basis of Pentecostal Christian teaching. For this doctrine, breaking away from our

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Obudu German Hospital… BY AGBA JALINGO

It’s not OK to keep deceiving your people consistently with videos and pictures. If any governor deserves a huge award for optics, it’s our governor. Deliberately, this video was done mostly at night and under very beautiful lighting carefully arranged for the shooting. The most important thing missing in the video is where patients are

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