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OPINION: CRISIS, REVOLUTION, AND THE NATION OF OUR DREAMS

No one is so brave that he is not disturbed by something unexpected- Julius Caesar (100-44BC). An interesting sidelight to this topic was elicited by a conversation with a group of young people during the Sallah public holiday in Lagos....

OPINION: AN ACCOUNT OF THE CORRUPTION AND ANOMALIES IN THE NIGERIAN IMMIGRATION SERVICE

One of the primary responsibilities of government is to provide - or regulate the provision of - efficient service to the populace. Successive Nigerian government has failed in this regard. It has become a convention to get inefficient service,...

OPINION: HAS CORRUPTION BURIED OBONO-OBLA? 

Before he was given the heave-ho, Okoi Obono-Obla, ex-chairman of the Special Presidential Investigation Panel for the recovery of Public Property (SPIP), bagged notoriety as a ''serial power abuser'' and a ''carefree violator'' of due process. Obono-Obla's success is, perhaps,...

OPINION: ENUGU: GOVERNOR UGWUANYI AND AWGU CAVES

Below is the published order given by His Excellency Governor Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi of Enugu State. "Gov. Ugwuanyi also visited the Ihe-Agbogugu-Ogbaku-Amurri and Isu-Awaa-Agbudu forests in the same local government area, ordering the immediate demolition of Agbogugu and Isu-Awaa-Agbudu caves to...

VON Lauds NNPC On Reputation Turnaround

SAN FRANCISCO, August 15, (THEWILL) - The Voice of Nigeria, the mass communication apparatus dedicated to dissemination of information from the country to the outside world, has applauded the improved global reputation of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) which...

Troops Foil Boko Haram Attack On Borno Village, Three Soldiers Killed

SAN FRANCISCO, August 15, (THEWILL) - Three soldiers are said to have died when troops of Operation Lafiya Dole averted a Boko Haram attack on Molai village in Borno State. The troops engaged the insurgents in a gunfight on Wednesday night...

OPINION: STATE OF THE NATION: DANGERS OF FALSE EXPECTATIONS AS NIGERIA GROAN UNDER DEBT BURDEN

"The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality. The last is to say thank you. In between, the leader is a servant"- Max de Pree. But under the current dispensation in the country, the first responsibility of our...

OPINION: RECONSTRUCTING SENATOR ISHAKU ABBO

I do not claim to have a catholic knowledge of the persona of Ishaku Abbo, the senator representing Adamawa North in the ninth Senate, as to make a magisterial assertion about the totality of his capacities as well as...

OPINION: EVEN IF GOVERNOR YAHAYA BELLO PERSONALLY ACQUIRED AJAOKUTA STEEL COMPANY

The unrepentant critic of Alhaji Yahaya Bello, Barrister Natasha Akpoti who lost out in the last senatorial election in Kogi central in her usual campaign of calumny has come out with another weighty allegation. In the latest version of her...

OPINION: WHEN SOLDIERS DO POLICE WORK: DISASTER

If anyone is looking for a perfect illustration and confirmation of the "coming anarchy" in Nigeria, that person needs not look farther than the on-going conflict and crisis of mutual distrust between the Nigeria Police and the Nigerian Army....

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