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Calypso: Enslaved African gift and its Mighty Sparrow, by Owei Lakemfa
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Calypso: Enslaved African gift and its Mighty Sparrow, by Owei Lakemfa

Slinger Francisco, better known as Mighty Sparrow, the “Calypso King of the World”, flew away on September 27, 2026. He was ninety. Calypso music was invented in the seventeenth century by African slaves in Trinidad who had mainly been taken from the Ibibio, Efik and Igbo peoples in present-day Nigeria and Congo. It is generally […]

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Inside prisons crime rings: How inmates run operations from behind bars
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Giving ex-prisoners another chance

The appeal by rehabilitated female ex-inmates for society to reject stigma is a timely reminder that punishment should not become a life sentence after release. The Nigerian Correctional Service (NCoS) itself now has a statutory mandate to reform, rehabilitate and reintegrate offenders, while its programmes include education, vocational training and income generation through farms and […]

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The president’s disappointing October 1 message, by Adekunle Adekoya
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The president’s disappointing October 1 message, by Adekunle Adekoya

NOT a few Nigerians, especially me, expected that there would be something to hold on to when the President made his speech commemorating our National Day, October 1, yesterday morning. As a newspaperman, I read the message more than three times, looking for that strand of a message that could give hope that at the […]

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