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ADAMU: Like father, Amos, like son, Samson, by Patrick Omorodion

Recently, the Confederation of African Football, CAF confirmed Samson Adamu, the scion of Dr. Amos Adamu, as the General Secretary of the continental football body. Former Super Eagles player, Paul Okoku in today’s Column takes a peep into the rise of the younger Adamu in African football and states that his appointment should “encourage Nigeria […]

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Reductionism and the national question: restructuring or grievance? (I), by Usman Sarki

“The co-existence of several nations under the same State is a test, as well as the best security, of its freedom.” — Lord Acton Nigeria’s convoluted debate on restructuring has endured for decades because it supposedly speaks to questions of power, identity, representation, resource distribution, security, federalism and belonging. Precisely because the debate has been […]

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AI as election bogey, by Okoh Aihe

As he walked across the stage to address the gathering, the young MC joked on Monday morning that Prof. Joash Amupitan is one man nobody would really want to envy in Nigeria today. This was beyond a joke, which the INEC Chairman soaked in with some equanimity. In less than three months, his agency, which […]

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Igbo youth rebuff of Nigerian Army (III), by Ochereome Nnanna

The purpose of this series is to explain why the young people of Igbo extraction now reject the offer to join the Nigerian Army. In the first part, we saw how the Army that Igbo senior officers once led with distinction became the instrument for their subjugation, both during and long after the Biafra War, […]

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What is the strange logic behind Hope Uzodinma’s political actions? By Rotimi Fasan

If one considers the unlikely calculus through which he emerged as the governor of Imo State in 2020, Chief Hope Uzodinma is one of the oddities of Nigeria’s adventure in democracy. Between him and Owelle Rochas Okorocha, with whom he has locked horns in a struggle over the senatorial ticket of Imo West, there is […]

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Uncommon energy, by Patrick Omorodion

To be a goal getter in any endeavour, you must have a strength of character that enables you choose “the harder right over the easier wrong.” People with such characters show quiet resilience, emotional restraint and integrity when it is difficult to do so. They tend to exhibit uncommon energy in doing things to achieve […]

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