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Posted by: Editorial on April 17, 2013

•MEND’s threat will put the govt in a tight corner as it has to battle many enemies simultaneously

A chilling countdown has begun, with all eyes glued on May 31, the date fixed by the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND) to launch Operation Barbarossa. “The bombings of mosques, hajj camps, Islamic institutions, large congregations in Islamic events and…

Posted by: Editorial on April 16, 2013

•The Rivers governor’s statement that Nigerians were too docile to be revolutionary is a battle cry for positive change

Should a governor openly say Nigerians are too docile for a revolution to take place in this country? To the extent that it could easily be misconstrued as people-baiting, it is clearly impolitic. But that is about the only negative thing about the…

THE BEGINNING: Sir Daniel Ezeuzoh (Oba) was born eighty three years ago in Uruolioke village, Etiti Nimo, to Onyeamaneke Ezeuzoh and Mgbafor Ezeuzoh, both of blessed memory. He grew up in Uruolioke and loved the simplicity of the village life during his childhood. At the age of six, he left Nimo town to Warri in the present Delta state of Nigeria to live with his maternal uncle, Lawrence Ibeh, of Enugwu Ukwu. He remained in Warri for twelve years before returning…

Chinua Achebe has been described as "the grandfather of African fiction" who "lit up a path for many others." I met this extraordinary Nigerian novelist, poet, and professor when I read his debut novel, Things Fall Apart. The book was a compulsory literary text in secondary school and has been translated into more than 50 languages. It has sold over 8 million copies worldwide. According to Wikipedia, the book is the most widely read book in modern African…

A prominent national daily newspaper, (Daily Champion) in Nigeria reported that the publisher of Our Daily Manna, Rev. Dr Chris Kwakpowe, was assassinated at his home by unknown gun men. His full name was printed in the controversial publication!

Even the CORRECTIONAL VERSION…

The leadership of organised labour are at it again. After successfully pulling the wool over the faces of Nigerians, who sacrificed their convenience early last year to join the march to resist the federal government’s removal of fuel subsidy, only for them to go behind us and betray the collective trust of the Nigerian people by hobnobbing government officials and then unceremoniously calling off the nationwide strike, leaving us wondering what was going on, they are again calling for…

By Bello Ahmadu Alkammawa

Power belongs to the Almighty Allah. He bestows it to whoever He wants anywhere,…

By Olusola Daniel

Having spotted, on several sites, an article by one Yushau A. Shuaib in which the Minister of Finance and Coordinating Minister for the Economy, Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala is accused of facilitating controversial appointments in favour of her Igbo fellows, I was alarmed by this tale by moonlight gone viral. Somehow the thesis of the article did not quite fit. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala has earned a solid reputation for her fight for a better Nigeria, her passion for a united…

Our Daily Manna Publisher, Rev. Dr Chris Kwakpowe, who was recently presented in the media as being involved in an illicit affair with a lady purported to be his secretary, has actually been lawfully and happily wedded to the lady in question for 13 solid years. The union between the shepherd of The Manna Prayer Mountain Ministry and Flora (Nee Igugu) was legalized on June 30, 2000, at the Ughelli North Local Government Registry (Delta State), a few months after traditional…

By Philip Amiola

I have observed with strong feelings of embarrassment, the degree to which people can be so enslaved by religion that they would go to great lengths to defend their religious views. People have been known to mutilate their bodies and engage in other forms of unseemly behaviour in the name of religion. Some members of a religious sect even go as far as committing such heinous crimes as arson, murder and rape all in the name of religion! How debased can the human mind…

In the wake of economic reforms that are being implemented in the Nigerian polity, the Minister of Finance and Coordinating Minister for the Economy, Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala has become a victim of slander and the target of verbal attack in its various ramifications. With the volume of vituperative statements and ill-informed public opinion against the Nigerian Iron Lady, one is inclined to believe that the sponsors of such statements are either being deliberately malicious or sincerely…

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The women in the Arab world, as many of the contributors to this publication will point out, face problems in achieving equality, fair treatment, adequate health care, and security. Many lives are endangered both on the front lines of protest as well as in women’s everyday lives through physical, emotional, and sexual abuse, or murder. This is the background noise of an Arab woman’s life no matter which class she belongs to or which country…

Major names in the Nigeria’s housing industry and mortgage financing have been confirmed as Gold and Diamond sponsors at the forthcoming 3rd ASO Housing Exhibition and Conference (EXCO) slated for April 11, 12 and 13, at the International Conference Centre (ICC) Abuja.

These organisations include: System Property Development Consortium, a multi lateral construction firm, founded to meet the growing need for environmentally responsive and economic designs and project management in the…

The choice of Finance Minister and Coordinating Minister for the Economy Dr. Ngozi Okonjo Iweala as Silverbird Group’s Man of the Year is a feat earned through a cocktail of daring economic policies by the Goodluck Jonathan administration especially in 2012, reports Festus Akanbi

A few moments after the impasse on the 2013 budget was resolved, a few government functionaries who first emerged from the Presidential Villa, venue of the closed-door meeting, where the budget was…

By Oluwaseun Joseph

Frankly speaking, it is quite heart-warming to see some influential Nigerians coming out of their gilded cage to demand accountability from the present government. It shows that we are now waking up to our civic rights by calling the government to task on the expenditure of our collective wealth, and alerting them that it won’t be business as usual anymore. After all, we are in a democratic dispensation where freedom of speech is a given.

Worthy of note is…

OVER the past couple of years there has been an upsurge in the number of private aircraft acquired by Nigeria’s “high and mighty”.

Gone are the days wealthy Nigerian expressed their “arrival” in the exclusive club by flying first class or business class in commercial airlines. Many of them have upgraded to owning private aircraft.

Most of these new aircraft owners bear the additional fantasy of chartering commercial airlines to ferry their friends and other guests to private…

By Ayodeji Sunday

For many years, African women have been relegated to mere observers in the socio-political and economic scheme of things. They are considered only ‘good to be seen, nor heard.’ And their voices, when they deign to talk, are drowned out by the clamour of male chauvinists that abound on the continent. To them, women are supposed to take the back seat. I think these people have had their way far too long! Thank goodness, this narrative of Africa is gradually…

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