Last week, the media reported that the Nigerian Army sentenced 54 soldiers to death by firing squad for the offences of mutiny and conspiracy to commit mutiny.
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Our self-inflicted economic crisis
Nigeria is undoubtedly a very big country, blessed with enormous natural and human resources. There is no part of this great country that is not blessed with at least one natural endowment or the other.
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It is an unimaginable thing if a child’s right to life is decided ever before his arrival on planet earth. And incidentally, the events leading to the choice of this decision is no fault of the child.
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The easiest time to prevent a divorce or an unhappy marriage is before marriage, not after. There is no gainsaying that love can have such a drunken effect on the about-to-wed that clear danger signal...
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Recently, a video recording of a house maid inflicting unbelievable pains on a hapless 18-month-old child, whom ironically she was meant to look after, went viral on social media. The dreadful sight of the maid pouncing and pounding on the ill-fated child was met with widespread indignation across the globe.
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I once heard a story which paints a sad picture of the entrenched culture of corruption and extortion of Nigerian and foreign travellers by immigration officers and other agencies at our international airports – the Murtala Muhammed International Airport being the most notorious.
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In recent times, the activities of the Nigerian Police have generated intense debate. Different opinions ranging from the sublime to the ridiculous have been canvassed on what a model Police Force should look like.
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To the admiration of lovers of human rights and particularly consumer rights advocates, on Monday December 15th 2014, the Lagos-based Senior Advocate of Nigeria, Mr Femi Falana, was quoted in the media to have written to the Coca Cola Company urging the management to comply with Nigeria’s local laws.
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Not having visited the North for over 7 years, I shuddered when the troublesome, yet deeply intelligent Segun Dada who had come late to the Abia Tour, connected with us at the State Dialysis Centre an...
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That Lagos is the commercial nerve centre of West Africa and one of the most populous cities in the world is incontrovertible. It is this reality that is partly responsible for the prosperity of the city.
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We have been through this road before. Have we learnt our lessons or is this just another scam? Are we trying to do the same thing the same way and expect a different result?
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When one is faced with two evils, it is natural to focus attention on the greater evil. The evil of Boko Haram is perhaps unarguably the greatest evil Nigeria has to confront at this time. However, Boko Haram is a cause that has rippled effects on almost all spheres of our national life.
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