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By Dan Onwukwe ( 08023022170 dan_onwukwe@yahoo.com ) Tuesday, February 28, 2012
There is something extra, extra-ordinary about this man who is on his final journey. It is his life. All the events organized in his memory, the dirges and eulogies and the markets that closed in his honour across the states where his cortege took place, underline the fact that he lived for a cause.
And, indeed, if life is a battle (as some it is), it is fitting and proper to say that he…
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By Nelson Ekujumi Tuesday, February 07, 2012
After a thirteen years murder trial in which the principal accused, Major Al Mustapha tried every trick known and unknown in the books to ambush justice, justice was finally served the Nigerian people on Monday 30th January 2012 when the judiciary once again lived up to its name as the last hope of the common man through the sound, erudite, logical, factual, incontrovertible judgement of justice Mojisola Dada in imposing the maximum…
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By Dan Onwukwe ( 08023022170 dan_onwukwe@yahoo.com ) Tuesday, February 07, 2012
The scene at many motor parks in Kano in recent weeks has had a distressingly foreboding smell. It typifies what is happening in many other states in the North. In droves, they are leaving. Some have lived in these places for over 30 years. For many of the families fleeing, until now, their children never knew other place than these states they are deserting now. It is so because the tempers of these times…
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By Robert Obioha, robobioha@yahoo.com Friday February 03, 2012
President Goodluck Jonathan last week made sweeping changes in the nation’s Police Force with the removal of the Inspector-General of Police (IGP), Hafiz Ringim and retirement of six Deputy Inspector-General of Police (DIGs). Ringim, who is due to retirement in March this year, has proceeded on a terminal leave.
Nigerians had expected the shake-up long ago in view of police inability to check the prevailing security…
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By Adewale T Akande Friday February 03, 2012
Without mincing words, I am using this opportunity to commiserate with the families which lost loved ones in Boko Haram attacks. I wish those injured speedy recovery from the “absurd” (according to the White House) and “senseless” bomb blasts by the Islamist group. It was the bloodiest Christmas ever experienced by Nigerians since 1960.
Albert Einstein, the German-born physicist who developed the theory of general relativity, has…
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