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For Comrade Bene Madunagu, For Humanity BY CHIDO ONUMAH

She “contributed immensely to international women’s activism on development, linking the experiences of Nigerian and African women to the broader global struggles for women’s equality and against neoliberalism.”

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Bene Madunagu: Intellectual, Mother, Botanist, Leftist-feminist And Revolutionary Socialist, BY OWEI LAKEMFA

“The mobilization of the leadership of the student unions nationwide to join our cause was easy because the couple (Bene and Eddie) had always identified with us students…Bene was the great inspiration of our efforts.”

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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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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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