Category: Story of the day

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Omoleye OmoruyiSeptember 13, 2017

All Shades of Wrong: Buhari’s body language in the Southeast

by Alexander O. Onukwe In the year 2017, President Muhammadu Buhari has hardly been in the country long enough to ...

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Op-ed EditorSeptember 13, 2017

What is Python Dance II supposed to achieve?

by Alexander O. Onukwue The Nigerian Army has been on a sequel to an operation to the South Eastern part ...

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EditorSeptember 12, 2017

Is there a case for Nnamdi Kanu in Soyinka’s statements?

by Alexander O. Onukwue One of the key points in the remarks made by Prof Wole Soyinka recently was about ...

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EditorSeptember 12, 2017

2019: Could Soyinka be sowing seeds for an unknown candidate?

by Alexander O. Onukwue It is hardly a secret that Professor Wole Soyinka was pleased with the defeat of President ...

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EditorSeptember 12, 2017

2019: Soyinka has not changed his mind about Buhari’s candidature

by Alexander O. Onukwue At the height of the conversations about President Muhammadu Buhari’s health, fitness to continue leading the ...

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EditorSeptember 12, 2017

Baba vs The Prof: Soyinka cannot let go of Obasanjo, can he?

by Alexander O. Onukwue The spokesman of President Buhari, Femi Adesina, wrote a piece recently which was titled “Wanted: A ...

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EditorSeptember 12, 2017

Soyinka is sick of premature 2019 talk – aren’t we all?

by Alexander O. Onukwue Nobel Laureate, Wole Soyinka, has lamented the early agitations that have been on about the 2019 ...

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Op-ed EditorSeptember 9, 2017

Why the police technology is needed more than ever

by Alexander O. Onukwe While most people only hear about jail breaks in America from movies, jail breaks from Police ...

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Op-ed EditorSeptember 9, 2017

Aba Prison Break: Who needs the fear of God in police work?

by Alexander O. Onukwue Giving reasons for dismissing six policemen who were involved in a jail break, the Commissioner of ...

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Op-ed EditorSeptember 9, 2017

Aba prison break: What makes a good cop go dirty?

by Alexander O. Onukwue Six policemen have been dismissed from service from the Abia State command of the Nigeria Police ...

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Op-ed EditorSeptember 8, 2017

Facts vs Opinions: We should have a podcast for Sagay and the Senate

by Alexander O. Onukwue   There is still the question of whether members of the academia should bother about being ...

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Op-ed EditorSeptember 8, 2017

Reality check: Sagay and other Buhari cheerleaders are doing damage

by Alexander O. Onukwue Have you read the opinion piece put together by Mallam Garba Shehu, the senior special assistant ...

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Op-ed EditorSeptember 8, 2017

Who loses when the Academia is discredited?

by Alexander O. Onukwue The Senate described Prof Itse Sagay, arguably the most recognized Professor of Law in the country ...

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Op-ed EditorSeptember 8, 2017

So is Itse Sagay guilty of hate speech?

by Alexander O. Onukwue The statement issued by Senator Sabi Abdullahi on behalf of the Senate urged President Buhari to ...

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Op-ed EditorSeptember 8, 2017

ITS-A SAGA: Where did Prof Sagay get the ridiculous figures from?

by Alexander O. Onukwue The veteran Professor of Law and presidential adviser on anti-corruption, Itse Sagay is another war of ...

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Op-ed EditorSeptember 7, 2017

How Aisha Alhassan called Buhari ‘the other baba’

by Alexander O. Onukwue In a sense, Mrs Aisha Alhassan has dared President Muhammadu Buhari to make her one of ...

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Op-ed EditorSeptember 7, 2017

What if Buhari is truly out of the 2019 race?

by Alexander O. Onukwue It would certainly make the political atmosphere in the country very interesting if President Muhammadu Buhari ...

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Op-ed EditorSeptember 7, 2017

Ethically, should Mama Taraba not resign her post already?

by Alexander O. Onukwue “They’re saying I should be sacked as minister. In the first place, I never expected the ...

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Op-ed EditorSeptember 7, 2017

#AtikuSeesTheFuture: other Atiku-lations for 2019

by Alexander O. Onukwue   Former Vice President, Atiku Abubakar, has received the most public vote of confidence yet that ...

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Op-ed EditorSeptember 7, 2017

Aisha deserts Buhari, but that’s just the appetizer

by Alexander O. Onukwue Minister of Women Affairs, Aisha Jumain Alhassan, has dropped the biggest hint yet that all is ...

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Op-ed EditorSeptember 6, 2017

Down with DACA: America is getting darker, isn’t it?

by Alexander O. Onukwue As reasons are being given for and against the decision by the Trump administration to put ...

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Op-ed EditorSeptember 6, 2017

Can the US Congress save the 800,000 DREAMers in just six months?

by Alexander O. Onukwue The announcement of the scrapping of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) policy on Tuesday ...

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Op-ed EditorSeptember 6, 2017

Lesson: The legal principle on which Obama initiated DACA

by Alexander O. Onukwue Many past leaders in the USA have cried out following the decision by the Trump White ...

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Op-ed EditorSeptember 6, 2017

What DACA cancellation makes you think of as a Nigerian

by Alexander O. Onukwue There are sure to be many Nigerians affected by the cancellation of DACA announced by the ...

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Op-ed EditorSeptember 6, 2017

Cancelling DACA: A definite cruelty or has it always been a deferred certainty?

by Alexander O. Onukwue Shifting slightly from the effects of Hurricane Harvey, national focus and the news media in the ...

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Op-ed EditorSeptember 5, 2017

What’s the ‘recession cost’ of the ASUU strike?

by Alexander O. Onukwue It is, without a doubt, good to announce repeatedly and be happy for the exit from ...

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Op-ed EditorSeptember 5, 2017

GDP: what can be done to make Agriculture contribute more?

by Alexander O.Onukwue Agriculture was third in terms of sector contributions to the GDP according to the NBS number published ...

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Op-ed EditorSeptember 5, 2017

Out of recession, now give us more change

by Alexander O. Onukwue The numbers have shown that Nigeria is no longer in recession, but as many analysts are ...

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Op-ed EditorSeptember 5, 2017

Out of recession but still hostage to oil

by Alexander O. Onukwue From the figures published on Nigeria’s GDP by the Nigeria Bureau of Statistics, the oil sector ...

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Op-ed EditorSeptember 5, 2017

Out of recession: Another promise delivered?

by Alexander O. Onukwue The Nigeria Bureau of Statistics published data today which says the country is officially out of ...

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