Prince Tonye Princewill, a PDP Chieftain has received the report of a socio-economic baseline survey of the 23 Local Government Areas of Rivers State from
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It was rather amusingly annoying to hear Ghana’s longtime strongman, Mr. Jeremiah John Rawlings glibly blame the pilot of the Nigerian cargo plane that crash-landed at the sole international airport in Accra over the weekend (See “Rawlings Blames Plane Crash on Poor Judgment” Ghanaweb.com 6/4/12). In crash-landing, the Boeing 727 cargo plane, with the legend
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Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan has called for German technological assistance to address the Boko Haram problem confronting his country. Speaking at a joint press conference with German Chancellor Angela Merkel in Berlin, the Nigerian leader stressed that with the support of the international community, Nigeria can overcome the insurgency of the sect that has claimed
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Suddenly, ex-President Jerry Rawlings has had epiphany about the on-going Ghana/African enlightenment movement. Face-to-face with some lethal cultural inhibitions that have been demeaning Ghanaians’/Africans’ humanity, Rawlings, in the manner of Archimedes and Isaac Newton, exclaimed “I need an explanation.” For long, some wrong-headed spiritualists have made it their craft to accuse children and old women
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Under the colonial enterprise, the British and their rival European powers knew only one way to grab resources—entering other people’s worlds and plundering their resources. That colonial enterprise was motivated by nothing but greed and a heartless exploitation and subjugation of other people, including those in the United States. As if oblivious to its own
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Contrary to the widely held view, largely among circles of his detractors, that Nkrumah had had a direct hand in the tragic events leading to
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Nigeria has threatened to pull out of the African Union just because its leader (Goodluck Jonathan) lost his bid to take over from the Equatorial Guinean leader (Theodoro Mbasago Obiang) as the Chairman of the AU. He lost to Benin’s Boni Yayi and is so peeved as to contemplate this action as a way to
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Right in front of our eyes, Nigeria is slipping into chaos, threatened by agitations and plain terrorist acts that endanger life and property. There seems
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Maybe some levelheaded and well-meaning observer needs to point out to the lunatic operatives of the Boko Haram terror machine, that a remarkable dosage of Western-type formal education would do the clinically confused leaders of the group a lot of good. Needless to say, helping them to recover their sanity would go a long way
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Across the road from Maiduguri railway station, in the corner of a now abandoned property, a leafy neem tree provides a canopy for the remains
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