Perspectives
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Chuba Ikpeazu stadium Onitsha: Honour or disgrace, By Odi Ikpeazu
The pictures you see here are of the so called Chuba Ikpeazu Stadium in Onitsha, Anambra State. This disaster area is supposed to have been established in honour of my father, the late Justice Chuba Ikpeazu OFR. I might have called it a joke but it is infinitely more serious than that. Chuba Ikpeazu was one of the pioneer lawyers…
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History Beckons and I will not be silent (Part 1), By Chukwuma Charles Soludo
My attention has been drawn to some of the tirades on social media following my frank response during an interview on Channels TV regarding the “investments” Mr. Peter Obi claimed to have made with Anambra state revenues. Sadly, several of the comments left the issue of the interview to probe or suggest motives, inferred from my response on “investment” that…
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Lonely old man, By Sam Omatseye
Recently when I think of Ayo Adebanjo, I remember Ernest Hemmingway’s novella, The Old Man and the Sea. It is a small but resonant epic. But it is a story that the Nobel Prize winner who died a suicide compels biographers to see as his self-portrait. When French hero and leader Charles De Gaulle stepped into his twilight, he recalled…
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Futility in bogus polls, By Olabode Opeseitan
Ahead of the just concluded midterm elections in the United States, the overwhelming expectation was that there would be a red wave and the Republicans would sweep everywhere, including taking control of the Senate and the House of Representatives. The “Tsunami” was manufactured and orchestrated by some right wing elements who used the media and spurious pollsters like Real Clear…
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Lalong: Restoring Plateau glory with APC Presidential Campaign kick-off! By Yakubu Dati
Jos, the Plateau State capital has always played a significant role in the political development of Nigeria. As far back as 1962, the Action Group, one of the major political parties of the 1st Republic led by Chief Obafemi Awolowo held its national convention at the African Sports Club in Jos. With the vibrancy of Plateau sons and daughters in…
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COP27 and the Osinbajo debt-for-climate swap deal, By Simbo Olorunfemi
In the last few years, the world has begun a more definitive transition from the place of cynicism and misunderstanding about the issue of climate change to that of warmer realisation, if not wholesome acceptance, of the reality of the phenomenon as a significant threat. But then, even in the face of a whittling down of opposition against the science…
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Waiting for NLNG to act responsibly, By Yemi Adebowale
It is almost six weeks since the Senate directed the Nigeria Liquefied Natural Gas (NLNG) Limited to pay N18.4 billion compensation to 73 host communities and 200 families in Bonny, Rivers State, within two months, for acquiring their land and for the loss of the affected land to their pipelines’ Right of Way. It is so sad that nothing concrete…
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Governor Okowa’s nauseating lies on Arise TV, By Emmanuel Olugua
On an Arise TV video that’s gone viral, Delta State governor, Dr. Ifeanyi Okowa, dorns a fashionable suit whose top buttons the average pensioner, the pensions of whom he ignored until the Deputy Senate President, Senator Ovie Omo-Agege, called him out, definitely cannot afford. On the video, he makes spurious, unfounded and unverifiable claims that he has restored the peace…
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Parallax angles, By Odi Ikpeazu
One interesting thing about perspective is that it affords the license or even audacity, to see the exact same thing absolutely differently. This is well illustrated in the ancient Indian parable of the blind men, who were asked to describe what an elephant was like, which they all proceeded to do according to the part of its anatomy they each…
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Celebrating Onyema Ugochukwu, an accomplished journalist at 78, By Segun Ayobolu
Last week, this column dilated on the constitutional responsibility of the media and the personal, professional and institutional integrity required of media practitioners to fulfill their societal obligations. Luckily, there are role models in the profession, albeit of an older generation, whose examples of unstinted professionalism and unblemished moral integrity can shine the light for contemporary practitioners to find their…
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