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A Brief Encounter: Tribute to Abraham Adesanya
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Written by Seán Akinrele   
Tuesday, 13 May 2008
I met the Elder personally only once, and that meeting was brief. However, I came away from that encounter with advice that left an indelible impact upon me and gave me courage to face my personal devils at the time and prevail.
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Barack Obama: America's Historic Opportunity
Lawrence Chinedu Nwobu
Written by Lawrence Chinedu Nwobu   
Tuesday, 13 May 2008

Naturally, many have remained sceptical about the possibility of a blackman becoming the president of a predominantly white America. Endless scenarios of how white America would gang up against a black candidate once Obama is the democratic nominee has continued to be concocted. Even the Clinton campaign has sought to play the race card by advancing the same arguments. But Obama has so far continued to confound the sceptics by his yet unstoppable appeal to both black and white America.


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Arise and Fight
Churchill Okonkwo
Written by Churchill Okonkwo   
Tuesday, 13 May 2008

We’ve known our rights
We’ve decided to fight
And fight we will fight
Until victory is in sight
Until we see the light

 


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The Creation Of A New State For The Ijebus
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Written by Bankole Okuwa Ph. D.   
Tuesday, 13 May 2008

The creation of Ijebu state should illustrate a political and economic combination of unique and hard working human frontiers which, with all intents and purposes, is capable of uplifting the uncommon relevance of dynamism in the Nigerian federal system. The abiding concern and responsibility of those directly planning and executing the statutory petition for the new state is to follow meticulously the details of constitutional requirement as specified in our basic law in order to succeed.


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Nigeria: Emerging from a Culture of Election Rigging and Violence.
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Written by O M Akingbogun   
Tuesday, 13 May 2008
1) is the current electoral process acceptable enough and can we safely assume that subsequent elections will be more acceptable? (2) Is the Independent National Electoral Commission properly organised to conduct acceptable elections in the near future to which all Nigerians and the International community aspire for?
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A soap opera and Nsukka’s salute to Achebe
Okey Ndibe
Written by Okey Ndibe   
Monday, 12 May 2008

The Guardian of April 23, 2008 named Mr. Akin Oshuntokun as one of the buyers of guesthouses formerly reserved for the use of Vice President Atiku Abubakar. As a columnist, Oshuntokun made it his business to pry into the affairs of public officials. Now it is time he made a public statement explaining how he got the guesthouse and how he was able to put together the money to buy it. Over to you, Mr. Oshuntokun.


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How Many Cojones Make One Testicularly Fortified Woman?
Pius Adesanmi
Written by Pius Adesanmi   
Monday, 12 May 2008
In one week, Hillary Clinton achieved the spectacular feat of becoming a testicularly fortified alpha male, who puts Rocky Balboa to shame, and is capable of upgrading the deficient, single-testiculed Obama into a real man by loaning him one of her three balls! She achieved this feat in the phallophilic diction and the subconscious of her male supporters. These incidents of male epistemic violence have not happened by accident.
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The Economic Cost Of Blackouts
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Written by Okechukwu Peter Nwobu   
Monday, 12 May 2008

While Nigeria currently generates less than 1,000 mw, Iran with a population of 70 million already generates 42,000mw. South Africa generates 36,000mw for a population of 40 million which translates to 800 watts per capita. At current capacity, Nigeria is less than a miserable 10 watts per capita. To match South Africa’s 800 watts per person, Nigeria needs to generate 104,000mw of electricity in a hurry.


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A need for paradigm shift in our nation’s politics: Serious need for way forward
Chris Odetunde
Written by Christopher Odetunde   
Monday, 12 May 2008
Nigerians have always narrowly defined leadership by allowing individual’s abilities to obscure larger societal needs which is likely to prove more important in the larger context. Leadership is by no means for the swift or for the strong but meant for those human beings that know their limitations, have the ability to listen and surround themselves with men who can tell them the truth and guide the right way. We are in a polity where issues are never discussed and if they are discussed they are with respect to how a leading party can better loot.
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On Culturism
Shoko's Mixed Bag
Written by Shoko Loko Bangoshe   
Monday, 12 May 2008

Racism. Sexism. Ethnocentrism. Religious fundamentalism. Ageism. Heightism. Weightism. Fashionism. Classism. Wealthism. Careerism. Sportism. Ismism. I could go on and on, listing the ways in which we as human beings tend to divide ourselves up and treat people in the various division differently. But I'm more interested today in examining this tendency for us to divide ourselves in these various ways.


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Superstition, Paranoia and Reality
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Written by Aisagbon Omogiade   
Monday, 12 May 2008

In the 80s, the late Professor Lambo as the Vice-President of WHO visited the University of Athens medical school where he was asked by a student what field he should specialise in when he graduated. The professor told him "I would have suggested psychiatry because that is my field, but today’s Nigeria will require many cardiologists." Nigerians, he said, are now dying in large numbers from heart-related diseases. But because the average Nigerian is paranoid, they attribute those deaths to witch-craft and other customary-beliefs.


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Pat Utomi's Unraveling
Moses Ebe Ochonu
Written by Moses Ebe Ochonu   
Monday, 12 May 2008

Why is Utomi in a hurry to cut Soludo slack? Why the curious willingness to clear exculpatory space for Soludo even though he is reported to have told members of the probe panel behind closed doors that he made a mistake and that they should, as young people, understand and forgive his youthful exuberance? Why the exceptionalism?


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Where is the Kalabari Governor of Rivers State?
Phil Tam-Al Alalibo
Written by Phil Tam-Al Alalibo   
Sunday, 11 May 2008
Even as their cup runnth over in ways that would make their biblical cousins green with envy, the Kalabaris have failed to transform their good fortunes into political capital in Rivers State and one often wonders why this tribe of overachievers cannot navigate its way to the pinnacle of the political mountain in the last four decades. With the antecedent on the ground at the moment, it would be easier for the Biblical camel to pass through the eye of a needle before a kalabari man would be governor of Rivers State.
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The Canary Series: I Need A MAN!
The Canary Series with Anne Oboho
Written by Anne Oboho   
Sunday, 11 May 2008
His domestic quality must stretch beyond the kitchen to the bedroom. Ah ha! This is where this starts. If the man does not understand what a bedroom means, he should not bother. The traditional place for proving his manhood is here, where God commanded him to handle the task of procreation. This guy I should marry must be a wizard in bed. He should be a natural lover of sex. His creative genius should be brought to bear upon our bed and me on it. He should be a willing and ABLE player. He must be ready to play at all times.
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Beyond Disputations On Nigerian History.
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Written by Dr. Emmanuel Omoh Esiemokhai   
Sunday, 11 May 2008

The position of the Igbo in the new dispensation is, in my judgment, more fundamental. It should be regarded as vital and should go   beyond historical disputations. I am prepared to engage in animated dialogue with “ Ndi Ogom,” so that they can re-focus their attention from money-making to Nigeria’s real-politik.


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For Mothers and Wives in Nigeria
Hakeem Babalola
Written by Hakeem Babalola   
Sunday, 11 May 2008

Let me drum so even blind
Among them will brand your grand
And soften male chauvinism
Of which indifferent to your emotions


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To My Mother
Rudolf Ogoo Okonkwo
Written by Rudolf Ogoo Okonkwo   
Sunday, 11 May 2008

Before I was a Spirit

You told the moon of me.

Before I was formed

You chose me out of the pack.


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Babangida – The Life and Times of the "Evil Genius" (Part 2 - "Coup Baiting")
Max Siollun
Written by Max Siollun   
Sunday, 11 May 2008
Continued From Part 1: Babangida – The Life and Times of the Evil Genius (Part 1)
He got married in September 1969 to a lady named Maryam King. The couple subsequently had four children named Mohammed, Aminu, Aisha and Halima.  Babangida was the best man when his old school classmate and childhood friend Mamman Vatsa got married to a lady from Calabar named Nwaeza Onwuka (who later changed her name to “Safiya”).
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Reflections On Motherhood
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Written by Dimaanu   
Sunday, 11 May 2008

Motherhood is a journey, although not the easiest of all of life's journeys but, the only one with several pit stops that you emerge from happy and refreshed. Motherhood is an investment. It is highly recommended that you invest wisely because the dividends will surely come....you would want to proudly show them off.

Happy Mothers Day!


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Boycotting British Airways
Sonala Olumhense
Written by Sonala Olumhense   
Sunday, 11 May 2008
What will you do when Nigerians hear you bought British Airways tickets?
What will you say when people see you at BA checking-in?

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Julie Enoma: A Widow's Agony
Reuben Abati
Written by Reuben Abati   
Sunday, 11 May 2008
Calus Enoma's widow looks like she needs help right now. We must stand by her to stand up to her in-laws and insist on the inviolability of the UN Convention on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) which Nigeria ratified in 1985, and Sections 33 to 44 of the 1999 Constitution. But she herself must be willing to assert herself. All too often, women in difficult circumstances are too willing to acquiesce, and play the victim; ironically the chief promoters of obnoxious traditional practices are women.
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Cameroon’s Mushrooming Advertising, PR & Marketing Industry
African Reports with Elie Smith
Written by Elie Smith   
Sunday, 11 May 2008
Yves Nestor Nlep is a graduate of the Institute of Mass Communications Technology (IMCT) and the Plateau School of Administration & Management Studies (PSAMS), both in Jos, Nigeria. He runs a consultancy specialised in Advertising, PR and Marketing Communications in Yaoundé, political capital of Cameroon. In the interview that follows he talks about his consultancy and the future of the advertising, PR and Marketing industry in the West African state.
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