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In the wake of the deadly Xenophobic attacks on Nigerians in South Africa by a section of that country’s population, something unprecedented happened: A single individual, a private businessman brushed aside profit concerns and put aircraft…

I spent the whole of last week trying to see how best to capture the near-nationwide stupidity going on in South Africa. But it all ended in futility – until I stumbled on this social media quote that was wrongly attributed to Dr. Robert…

It has been thirty-three years since I borrowed a library card From a shy, handsome, gap-toothed classmate He came to my university for a degree He left with his degree and something else Three years later we walked down the aisle A…

By Chibuzo Ihegboro As Africa’s most populous country, Nigeria is currently the seventh rank in world population. If its population of 200 million people continues to grow at the current rate of 3.2 per cent each year, the country will…

Globacom, Nigeria’s first indigenous Global System for Mobile Communications (GSM) is 16, and we can say in every sense of the word that the telecoms giant has come of age. So, what has the past 16 years been like for the company and…

By Simeon Nwakaudu One of the worst challenges that Nigeria faces today is the failure of elders to act their age and serve as role models to the younger generation. This is worsened by the propensity of some persons considered elders to…

By Steve Nwosu I had delayed the writing of this column until Wednesday, when I expected that ministers designate would be handed their portfolios. But I waited, glued to the TV, all morning until the end of the event. Yet, I did not see…

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By Brady Chijioke Nwosu When Eleanor Roosevelt, wife of former United States President F.D. Roosevelt stated that, “It is better to light a candle than curse the darkness”, she probably had in mind the likes of Nigeria’s former military…

Nothing better captures the above headline than the attached photograph, which I stumbled upon on one of the numerous social media platforms. It is that of a thoroughly battered policeman, gasping for life, and leaning on an officer of a…