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The Water Resource Bill: What happens in the house of sheep, ........ happens in the house of goat!
In our study of history and the rise and fall of empires, there are often remote and immediate causes to…
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A few days ago when he provoked the failed state thesis, unbeknown to him, former President Olusegun Obasanjo was stirring…
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Nigerians are a resilient lot. In the past, the slightest increase in any consumable would have precipitated protests. Just as…
Much Ado about Ooni and Asiwaju’s courtesy at Oniru coronation
Great names and institutions are not built overnight. It was H.H. Younus AlGohar who drove it home by positing that…
How corruption undermines peacebuilding in Nigeria’s oil region
A Nigerian Navy unit on patrol, looking for illegal oil refineries in the Niger Delta region near Port Harcourt. Stefan…
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