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2025: Don’t Waste Your Hope On Pallia-thieves… BY AGBA JALINGO

This is just a note of warning so you don’t get heartbroken by the turn of the year. It’s one day until Christmas, and for many families across Nigeria, what used to be a season of joyful sharing has become a season of begging, queuing for palliatives, and deaths. This new reality is assuming a

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Civic Space Opinion

Dele Farotimi: Lest We Forget… BY AGBA JALINGO 

I have been a victim of judicial injustice myself. It is open knowledge that many cases are won in our courts not because the prominent counsels know law, but because they know judges, and know how to funnel bribes and peddle influence. But this cartel is untouchable and cannot be criticized, lest you are treated

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Clement Ebri: A Silent Mentor At 72 BY RASHEED OLANREWAJU

It would indeed appear that mentoring young people and grooming them to greatness comes naturally to Ebri

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How Not To Govern A People? BY AGBA JALINGO

The government is essentially saddled with the responsibility of fixing things. The task of bringing closure to teething issues. The onus of finding permanent solutions to problems. The burden of developing our communities and the duty of securing the citizens. It is charities and not-for-profit organizations, as well as philanthropy, that support the government with

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Cross River Northerners, Open Your Eyes… BY AGBA JALINGO

If you are from Cross River North, kindly come with me. There is something important which you may already know but may not have given thought to. That I want to put in context for you. Do you know that by land mass, all the five local governments that make up Cross River North, put

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Profit, Pollution and Lies: Interrogating Shell’s Divestment Claims In The Niger Delta BY KEN HENSHAW

Just as it employs disinformation to deny oil spills and its responsibility for remediation and compensation, it is doing the same with its divestment when it blames sabotage by communities for oil spills and their failing equipment

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Are You Traveling Home This December? BY AGBA JALINGO

In 51 days from today we will be in December. We all know what happens in December. Most people want to go home to their villages and hometowns. It’s the holiday season. But if you are planning to go to the village, kindly take note of the following: So if you ask me, unless you

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Disability, Gender, And Education: Promoting Equity And Leadership For Nigerian Women BY CARO-ANN OGRI

It is not sufficient to simply want women with disabilities in leadership. No; it is the need for the development of an inclusive, plural, and democratic society to make this happen

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