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The Year 529 AD By 529 AD when Christianity had become the official State Religion of the old Roman Empire, Emperor Justinian made Christmas a public holiday. The real date …
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AFRICA By Anuforo Kingsley A
Where is thine beauty gone?Why art thou scattered and torn?The drum of thine heart beats no more.Thy sun, less glorious than before. Our ancestors’ backs art to us turned.The white …
The essence of chiney By Anuforo Kingsley A.
Where you left, your traces never fade.You may come and go like the lightening,But the night shall never be the same againShe has known light and would strive evermoreTo achieve …
ASUU vs. FG: Crossing the Red Line with Impunity By Victor Anazonwu
Since March 2020, starting weeks before the Covid-19 lockdowns, public universities in Nigeria have been shut down. Reason: Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has been on strike following disputes …
Adopt ‘ghost-mode’: it is good for business By dGrammarQueen Stella Uchechi Nnodi
(IF YOU ARE A BUSINESS OWNER, YOU NEED TO READ THIS!) As an internal control officer of a South-South branch of a Nigerian bank in 2006, I had come to …
Why Trump Lost By Abdullahi Yelwa
When I studied American democracy in graduate school in the U S, in the early 80s, it was pretty much settled that the stability of American democracy is hinged on …
The Kankara Boys: What it says about us all By Victor Anazonwu
Let me guess: Now that the over 300 teenage boys abducted from their boarding school in Kankara, Katsina State, have regained their freedom, Nigerians will jump for joy, slap each …
Achieving food security and ending hunger By Moses AMADI
The Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) has designated the world as a hungry planet with more than two billion people worldwide without sufficient access to food. This is even as …
#Lekkimassacre: complicity is the sound of silence By Amadi U. MD.
“The world will not be destroyed by those who do evil, but by those who watch the evil doers, in silence.” Albert Einstein. We live in troubling times. A …
Rawlings in the eye of history By Moses AMADI
Ghana’s former President, Jerry John Rawlings, was seen as both a champion of the people as well as controversial, as his personality and style of leadership generated varying degrees of opinion both in Ghana and in the international community.