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Social Insecurity: Abia State Commissioner of Police seeks for synergy, Meets Okey Kanu

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Information is a strong tool; it must be effectively deployed with respect to ethics and professionalism for the benefit of society – Kenechukwu Onwuemelie By Eagle Okoro When I read a post by the Commissioner for Information and Culture, Prince Okey Kanu, on a group platform on Friday about the planned courtesy visit to his office by the Commissioner of Police, Mr. Kenechukwu Onwuemelie, I shuddered for a while. I simply could not easily fathom the reason a Commissioner of Police would want to pay a courtesy call on a…

What do IMF really want from Nigeria

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The only type of lender who willfully and knowingly lends money to people who can never realistically hope to pay it back is a LOAN SHARK. A loan shark carries out predatory lending to vulnerable people who have something that he wants. He knows you cannot pay back By Staff Reporter Historically, I’ve never been a fan of invoking neo-colonialism as a reason for the failure of African states. I have always preferred to hold the feet of African leadership to the fire instead. But sometimes, the empire makes moves…

Bad political leadership not religion is the bane of Africa’s development

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What religious Scriptures (Bible or Quoran) are we busy quoting in Nigerian streets and media platforms to justify or condemn Tinubu’s certificate saga since 1999? Is it not the lacuna in our constitutional and deceptive interpretation that our lawyers and judges have adopted? Rev. Solomon Umazi It is high time we begin to interrogate some self-imposed and baseless propaganda against Africa and Africans. Most of these baseless narratives are gradually taking root in the space of public opinion as if it’s the truth. How come we are being forced to…

Class Action Reclamation Of Igbo and African Art from Europe

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The loss of her customs, rituals, highly valued artefacts and cultural pride of the indigenous people, became replaced by European value systems, ideas and traditions that created  much of a deep dysfunctionality in the sovereign consciousness of these republican people. – By Hon. Minister Ebube George Ebisike Whilst Dr Henry Kissinger called them “the Wandering Jews of West Africa”, the late playwright China Achebe’s “Things Fall Apart” portrays Ndigbo as a community known for its cultural richness and which was destabilised by the advent of British colonialists and European Christian…