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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…

Saturday, August 3, 2019, I was at this high end store in a mall in Dallas, Texas, United States of America, doing my thing. As a matter of fact, I was at a department of the store I felt was my last stop for the day, having exhausted…

By Steve Nwosu In these times when police and armed robbers show espirit de corps to one another, pick pockets and politicians extend the same courtesies to one another, and even lecturers and student cultists peacefully co-exist, just as…

The year is 4028. Planet earth died out 2000 years ago. In the year 2028, a scientist known as Dr. David Pilcher gave a presentation at a conference on climate change. His key findings were that humanity would cease to exist in a few…

By Femi Adesina First, it was laughable, now it gets progressively pitiable, to see and hear efforts by presidential candidate of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) in the last general elections, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, appeal to the…

Who can honestly swear that the circus that has been happening inside the upper chamber of the National Assembly since last week Tuesday is indeed a screening? But, before I’m mischievously misinterpreted, let me make haste to note here…

You must have noticed that the un-educative but meant-to-distract programmes like Big Brother, as well as media trial of certain opposition members to the All Progressives Congress (APC)-led government, including former minister of…