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By Chike Onwe Today is October 1, 2020. On this day, exactly 24 years ago, the present day Ebonyi State was created. I remember that winter morning, when the then Head of State, Gen. Sani Abacha was to address the nation on her 36th…

INDEPENDENCE DAY ADDRESS BY HIS EXCELLENCY, MUHAMMADU BUHARI, PRESIDENT OF THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF NIGERIA ON THE OCCASION OF NIGERIA’S SIXTIETH INDEPENDENCE ANNIVERSARY, THURSDAY 1ST OCTOBER 2020 Fellow Nigerians I speak to…

By Muhammad Garba My attention was drawn to an opinion article in the Guardian of Tuesday, September 8, 2020 authored by a veteran journalist, Ray Ekpu titled: ‘’Where is Kano going to?’’ Mr. Ekpu is a respected journalist in…

By Wole Soyinka I am notoriously no fan of Olusegun Obasanjo, General, twice former president and co-architect with other past leaders of the crumbling edifice that is still generously called Nigeria. I have no reasons to…

WHO ARE THE REAL ENEMIES? By Chike Onwe PhD It is generally agreed that an enemy is a person or group, real or imagined, considered to be adverse or threatening. The ability to identify ones adversary in any given…

There is an Igbo saying which I became aware of when I was serving in Nanka, Anambra state. It goes thus: “you do not have to shout to tell a blind man that war has broken out!” But there are always exceptions to that rule and…

by Ben Udechukwu When the history of Aba will be written Okezie Victor Ikpeazu Ph.D will be reserved a pride of place. This is not so much for recovering the city in phases, it will be for his deliberate, frank and concerted…

By Law Mefor “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it” –George Santayana, The Life of Reason, 1905 The riding quotation is an apt counsel from a celebrated thinker, George Santayana, who, at the age of 48, left…

By Obi Aguocha My heart grieves with sadness as my attention is drawn to the recent incessant clashes between members of Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) and security agents which has again led to deaths of many citizens in Emene,…

By Farooq A. Kperogi, Ph.D. Twitter: @farooqkperogi The rescission of the invitation extended to Governor Nasir El-Rufai to speak at the annual conference of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) as a consequence of sustained social…