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Sunday, August 02, 2009 |
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In his weekly radio and Internet address entitled by journalists as Spirit of innovation key to the future President Barack Obama was quoted on Saturday stAugust as saying Innovation has been essential to our prosperity in the past and it will be essential to our prosperity in the future This and the other difficult but important steps ... Read more |
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Monday, July 27, 2009 |
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Saying that the Economic and Financial Crimes CommissionEFCC has become a major critic or watchdog of the Rivers State government is not in the bad test What is in the bad test is the mountain of abuses that have croppedup among the officials of the EFCC and the Rivers State Government Their inglorious words without doubt were manufactured w ... Read more |
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Saturday, July 11, 2009 |
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There was no confidence and hope about the future in Fortissimo a country that proclaimed itself as the largest Red nation in the world Politicians swam in the murky waters of politics Their actions played a role in conflict and death of the citizenry Prostitution was rife People ate ashes for bread and drank tears for tea Illicit petroleum t ... Read more |
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Thursday, April 30, 2009 |
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They claimed that since the beginning of oil exploration activities in their area they have found it increasingly difficult to ply their trade due to incessant sea incursion and water pollution that resulted in low catch in the shallow waters thereby forcing them to move to the high seas Tony I Uranta whos a member of the Fede ... Read more |
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Thursday, April 30, 2009 |
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Nigeria is empty if there is no love and no friendship among the citizens Nigeria can never be attractive with a great heart if the virus of dichotomy is not abrogated Nigeria will never be interesting in so many things of life that very often it just not enough if she does not stop playing the ostrich with the citizens Nigeria should have time ... Read more |
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Friday, April 24, 2009 |
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The presence of many people is on earthbut their minds are farfetchedharnessed by the infusion of fearswars and rumours of warsby those whose strength is to warwith the strongest factories of munitionsbut not the strongest faithful mindof making peaceWho will probe themWho will tell them the wrongs they have committed ag ... Read more |
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Wednesday, April 01, 2009 |
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She was either loved or hated Molly Ivins was a political commentator with what was described by her admirers as a sharp wit a takenoprisoners critic of what she considered silly outrageous or unfair She was based in Texas She was quoted saying Theres never been a law yet that didnt have a ridiculous consequence in some unusual situati ... Read more |
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Monday, March 23, 2009 |
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It is no longer news to every Rivers person that the Governor Chibuike Amaechiled administration of Rivers State is bent to renewing the state to attain its agedlong sobriquet the Garden City What is news is the caliber of people in Governor Amaechiâs cabinet that are helping to seeing that this Renewal Project becomes a reality These people ... Read more |
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Friday, March 20, 2009 |
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This piece was not intended to aggrieve any person though it might be appalling to the many fanatics against nonindigenes in Rivers State not only for their intellectual shortcomings but also for the sickening misrepresentation and mismanagement they display against the socalled nonindigenes without compunction In every state in Nigeria ... Read more |
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Thursday, March 19, 2009 |
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In the late s nonstop into the late s in the British English urban renewal similar to urban regeneration was known as a program for land redevelopment in areas of moderate to high density urban land use It did not stop there traces of it was still occurring in the early s Analyses also proved that land redevelopment has a major ... Read more |
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Monday, March 16, 2009 |
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Dr Amanze Obi who was once a revered social critic with a lot of essays to his credit but now an appointee to spearhead the Information Ministry of Governor Ikedi Ohakimled Imo State Government recently threw caution to the wind and called for the head of the Sunday Independent Editor of th March with his article entitled Wishful thi ... Read more |
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Thursday, March 12, 2009 |
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I think Nigerians need more Ibuprofen to reduce the pains and inflammation the state Nigeria is causing them Sometimes if not always I wonder why Nigerians flair up on hearing of any project the government is initiating For example the rebranding Nigeria stuff I think Nigerians are just happy with their ethnicities than they are with the F ... Read more |
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Monday, March 09, 2009 |
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Because power is in the hand of few literate Nigerians the art of image laundering is allowed to only the reading public If some people were to head their villages and towns were oracles and deities are revered they wont come out hale and hearty They would be exposed Even tyrants in our democracy launder their images on the newspapers and on ... Read more |
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Friday, March 06, 2009 |
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Efforts of many people organizations and Nigerians in general to stem kidnapping in the Niger Delta region but especially in Rivers State had yielded micro results Recently a bill of life jail was passed by the Rivers State House of Assembly and was later resolved to death penalty I have been closely watching and observing the various ac ... Read more |
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Wednesday, March 04, 2009 |
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When people work for money against their conscience there is every predisposition that they are living with dead conscience no matter the impression they might give Albeit some people perhaps dont know when they are going dissimilar to their conscience and that is why we have to call such people to orderOne Mike Nwachukwu and Hansen Nwana ... Read more |
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Tuesday, February 24, 2009 |
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It was when the wife of the former Petroleum Minister Edmund Daukoro Gladys and an INEC Commissioner were kidnapped in Port Harcourt that it dawned on the Rivers State Governor Mr Chibuike Amaechi that it was time to assemble security agencies in Rivers State on Wednesday February to come up with a fresh plan to stem the new spate ... Read more |
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Sunday, February 22, 2009 |
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Any award given to a person or to an organization is a way to say More grease to your elbow And that could be why the Ikenga Entertainment and Awards Inc the organizers of the first ever Ikenga Merit Awards scheduled to take place at the All Seasons Hotel Owerri in April this year is into the business That idea is good but there is still ... Read more |
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Wednesday, February 18, 2009 |
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Government corruption is rife in Nigeria And it has become the bane of the social political and economic growth of Nigeria Political violence and uniformmen torture is not new in Nigeria The citizens are always abused and are denied their basic needs and human rights Elections in Nigeria are marred by fraud by government actors not only the ... Read more |
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Tuesday, February 10, 2009 |
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The Christians always tell us that a repented soul makes the heavenly saints host an exciting party but a tainted soul the heavenly saints abhor That was why anybody that believes in life after death makes sure he or she directs his or her life while living so that a peaceful eternity would be sure Perhaps the indomitable Atiku Abubakar for ... Read more |
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Monday, February 02, 2009 |
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The question in the recent times is how do we remake man How do we remake the difficult cousin brother sister father mother and so on even political associate This has made man become the most difficult business to manage on the earth Man is full of ego and likes genuflecting especially in the Nigerias political atmosphere because every ... Read more |
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Saturday, January 24, 2009 |
After nine years of selfexile sojourn to Europe the foremost African literary icon Prof Chinua Ache has finally returned home on January to deliver Ahiajoku Lecture and to celebrate the Things Fall Aparts anniversary at Owerri the Imo State capitalThe literati world is today agog that one of their own has come back home The ... Read more |
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Wednesday, January 21, 2009 |
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Take it or leave it wedding of any kind is easy but marriage is not easy A lot of people today want to wed any kind of wedding so that their associates or the society at large would see that they are married And this social phenomenon is eating up deeply into the psyche of our people who have not really sat down to buttress the meaning of wedd ... Read more |
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Tuesday, January 20, 2009 |
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Poem marking Obamas Inauguration Day as the th President of the United States of America Written by Odimegwu Onwumere Down memory lanewe walked with himdown memory lane mind of reasoningbecame mind of rancouringdown memory lane Down memory laneall we had was hope happiness was farfetchedal ... Read more |
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Friday, January 09, 2009 |
Since the Rivers State Governor Rt Hon Chibuike Amaechi took over the mantle of leadership of the state affairs on October the states Hon Commissioner for Information High Chief Ogbonna Nwuke has been in the forefront to avoid any hoodwinking information in the state His imprints since April he was appointed to lead the Rivers ... Read more |
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Saturday, December 27, 2008 |
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A lot of politicians in Nigeria who are not democrats and as a result have been unwounded behind in the President YarAdualed administration have resorted to peddling of information worthy of mass destruction against this government but most especially against the Governor Chibuike Amaechiled Rivers State Government And it would amount to usele ... Read more |
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Saturday, December 20, 2008 |
Protocol What is it saying Child Abuse or Human Rights if the people are still hungry of food and dont even know where their next meal was going to come from Human rights crusade shouldnt only be a paper war but also a material war Meaning that the people should be fostered with everything necessary to make them happy confronti ... Read more |
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Friday, December 19, 2008 |
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As the world just marked the human rights day there are people who touched our lives and we cant avoid remembering them For those who might be on the amiss I am not a fellow of Ashoka but I have come to realize the importance of saying thank you when a deed is done either to me or to anybody Especially during this period of human rights ... Read more |
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Thursday, December 18, 2008 |
This is one of the odd jobs many Nigerians do to survive in Nigeria in an opulent oily rich nationhttpmodernghanacomimagescontentpictjpg httpmodernghanacomimagescontentpictjpg httpmodernghanacomimagescontentpictjpgPhoto By Odimegwu Onwumere Founde ... Read more |
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Friday, December 12, 2008 |
If everyone in Nigeria carries his or her duty as expected without an iota of biasness there wouldnt be any room for rancour bickering and tinkering The residents of Shell Road in Oyigbo Local Government Area of Rivers State carried what they described as a doortodoor protest on th December over the neglect of Shell Petroleum Developm ... Read more |
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Thursday, December 11, 2008 |
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History is something that always repeats itself For those who do not know the man called Dr Abiye Samuel Precious Sekibo he was one time Transport Minister and the former SSG to Rivers State government under exGovernor of Rivers State Dr Peter Odili But he could be called a comedian because the unending theatrical performances by him will ma ... Read more |
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Wednesday, December 10, 2008 |
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Muslims all over the world had the precognition that Monday th December they were going to celebrate EdElKabir while the Christians all over the world are waiting December as a memorable day in the religious operations of their sect Regarding that a group of Islamic faithful in Rivers State on Tuesday th December paid a visit t ... Read more |
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Tuesday, December 09, 2008 |
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As part of its bid not to allow the African culture to tow the way of our ancestors on the eve of the Rivers State carnival which kickstarted on the th of December the Rivers State chapter of the Action Congress AC led by Prince Tonye Princewill hosted friends and lovers of literature at the Gulf Prince Hotels Old GRA Port Harcourt P ... Read more |
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Friday, December 05, 2008 |
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There is no doubt today that the EFCC is losing its integrity and credibility on the war against corruption Many people today ask does the corrupt pursue the corrupt Does a naked man pursue the mad These questions and others have croppedup as a result of lack of transparency with which the EFCC runs the affairs of anticorruption in our countr ... Read more |
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Thursday, December 04, 2008 |
The Nigeria customer protection agency once clamped a beverage drink firm in Nigeria this year for a promo that it was organizing and hosting and said the promo was characterized by fraud and ordinances it discontinue from the promo But no one was sure if that firm paid heed to the ordinance of the agency because a lot of things happen in Nigeria ... Read more |
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Tuesday, December 02, 2008 |
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When robbers assassins or even those they may have stepped on their toes attack politicians they cry of blue murder and the society becomes awash with the matter and busstop parliamentarians begin to deliberate on the matter likewise the newspapers and magazines and radio stations But politicians attack the society that cry for them when ... Read more |
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Monday, December 01, 2008 |
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Cleanliness is a culture in Africa Newly married women in some towns and villages are being examined of how strong they are by the way they wake in the wee hours to sweep the entire compound of their matrimonial homes and how clean they are by the elderly women Women make sure that grass does not grow in their various matrimonial homes or on its ... Read more |
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Saturday, November 29, 2008 |
History deals with different men in different ways good or bad And the works of men today are left for the good justice called posterity Some good men are labeled bad men by traducers while sycophants label many bad men good men And the former is the fate of the Rivers State Commissioner for the Ministry of Urban and Rural Development Barriste ... Read more |
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Thursday, November 27, 2008 |
We have nothing to fear but fear itself said a Franklin D Roosevelt And a Elie Metchnikoff said needless fear and panic over disease and misfortune that seldom materialize are simply bad habits By proper ventilation and illumination of the mind it is possible to cultivate tolerance poise and real courage A life lived in fear is a life half l ... Read more |
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Wednesday, November 26, 2008 |
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Nigeria cant survive as a nation if her politicians continue to live with eyeservices lies corruptions and mismanagements of public funds Nepotism is rife in Nigeria and it is not the best in our country where oligarchy is battled Many of us are still eyesopened to know what will come out of the Power Probe we are still wondering why a nati ... Read more |
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Wednesday, November 26, 2008 |
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The leader of Action Congress AC in Rivers State and a member of the Niger Delta Technical Committee Prince Tonye TJT Princewill has congratulated the Ikemba Nnewi Chief Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu Eze Ndiigbo Gburugburu on his years on the glebe celebration which took place Tuesday th November Princewill made this statement as he fle ... Read more |
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Thursday, November 20, 2008 |
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Last time the President of our Federal Republic of Nigeria Alhaji Musa YarAdua left the country on amorethan two weeks sojourn which brewed controversies all over the country and among our people in the Diaspora of his whereabouts From the Presidency the news then was that he was observing some religious obligations in the Saudi Arabia But ... Read more |
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Tuesday, November 18, 2008 |
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I still remember on Thursday August when the Information Commissioner of Rivers State High Chief Ogbonna Nwuke called on Christians to condemn the abduction of an Israeli Mr Ehud Arny residing and doing business in Port Harcourt saying that Israel and the Christian community in Nigeria has a lot to share in common because Israel was t ... Read more |
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Saturday, November 15, 2008 |
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When Prof Joe Irukwu was the PresidentGeneral of the Ohanaeze Ndiigbo the now PresidentGeneral of the panIgbo sociocultural group Ohanaeze Dr Dozie Ikedife was the president of the Anambra State chapter of the body He had his respect from his members and friends People were singing his praises more than the requiem for the dead by the c ... Read more |
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Monday, November 10, 2008 |
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Writers the world over are adored by the society but dreaded by the governments and the politicians This could be because writers are regarded as a conscientious people Writers dont judge or argue in their works supporting any race or creed or writing for money but for intelligibility And any writer who does support evil or follow general opin ... Read more |
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Friday, November 07, 2008 |
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One thing a writer of either drama poetry or prose which are the three genres of literature must first consider at the back of his or her mind before venturing into a writing contest is that too many people are eager to win the prize so that it could draw attention to them A writer must make sure he or she has read the works of other ... Read more |
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Tuesday, November 04, 2008 |
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Dear Dimeji Bankole just to inform you that I was rushed to the clinic at the outbreak of the alleged scam that has denuded the House which you are the Speaker over the purchase of vehicles My trembling and disappointment was not actually that you are not a human being but the questions Obasanjo and Etteh could be asking by now Where ... Read more |
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Friday, October 31, 2008 |
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Many Nigerians are yet to feel the dividends of democracy based on the neglect of the grassroots politics by the Nigerian government Elections at the Local level are totally debased as the states still control the activities of the different Local Government Areas LGAs in Nigeria which in earnest is to the detriment of the locals Imagine that ... Read more |
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Friday, October 31, 2008 |
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Many Nigerians are yet to feel the dividends of democracy based on the neglect of the grassroots politics by the Nigerian government Elections at the Local level are totally debased as the states still control the activities of the different Local Government Areas LGAs in Nigeria which in earnest is to the detriment of the locals Imagine that ... Read more |
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Thursday, October 30, 2008 |
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The economy of Nigeria is in dreadful gait And Nigerians are yet to find the suiting word to define the hardship in the nation with A land blessed by God but cursed by man a land where those saddled with power go for medical treatment abroad to the detriment of the lands economy a land where government would always align down the masses quest ... Read more |
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Friday, October 24, 2008 |
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I was perplexed of how to start this article but was provoked to start by remembering Peter McWilliams quote and he says One of the great joys of life is creativity Information goes in gets shuffled about and comes out in new and interesting ways I quite agreed with the above expression I was later made to be fame with the article when I w ... Read more |
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Wednesday, October 22, 2008 |
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Written by Odimegwu Onwumere If no one is thoughtful about the plight of Ndiigbo in the political system in Nigeria I am thoughtful I wet my eyes in prayers and my voice crack in advice and my pen dry in trying to address some key issues debilitating the state of health of the Igbo nation Especially when I remember that this esteemed de ... Read more |
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Tuesday, October 21, 2008 |
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It reverberated with disgust in my mind nerves quaked and the blood in my blood stream ran with such accelerando like a man who was just hit by the news of the sudden death of a beloved one I gnashed my teeth my reading lantern on my bedhead there was no electricity light when I was yet to finish Henry Akubuiros controversy in the form of ... Read more |
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Wednesday, October 15, 2008 |
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The Rivers State Information Ministry has not been loquacious since High Chief Ogbonna Nwuke was appointed the Commissioner for Information in the state as yours truly have been monitoring The ministry talks maturely But Nigerians or the traducers of that ministry were earopened to trail it on the Golgotha road as they are wont to doing before ... Read more |
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Wednesday, October 15, 2008 |
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As Nigerians especially the youths migrate in droves to make their journey to Europe by a questionable means they also die in droves Albeit there are many who make their journey to Europe through civil means The illegal migrants die of dehydration trying to enter Europe through the desert or sea They sometimes had to sweep kilometres away ... Read more |
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