News
The butchers of Nigeria
Over the past year, Nigeria’s homegrown terror group Boko Haram has escalated its deadly attacks against Christian and government targets, with the aim ...
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Disaster Capitalism swoops over Libya: The new colonization of Africa
By PEPE ESCOBAR Think of the new Libya as the latest spectacular chapter in the Disaster Capitalism series. Instead of weapons of mass ...
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'Disaster Capitalism' What does it mean to Africa?
By NWAKANMA CHIKA How does the bombing of a church in northern Nigeria by some illiterate Boko Haram suicide bomber relate to the ...
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Closed Borders!
Africa locks itself out of a potential $1 trillion continental business by refusing to trade with itself. By SEGUN ORUAME Open borders and ...
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What’s Suswamnomics?
By Segun Ohimeh Oruame How do you run ambitious development plans in a state that is mostly under-infrastructure, largely agrarian; and whose populations ...
Interview
‘We must allow innovation to come into government’
In this interaction with Baobab Media team SEGUN ORUAME and JOE ANUGA in Makurdi, Honourable Commissioner for Finance & Economic Planning, Benue State, ...
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Male circumcision reduces HIV risk: No further evidence needed
Three recent African trials support male circumcision for reducing the risk of contracting HIV in heterosexual men. After including new data from these ...
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Muslim Hausa hegemony and the Jos crisis
Many in the media have severally commented on the recent Jos mayhem, but in the spirit of political correctness virtually none has broached ...
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The famished road
CHINWEOKE OBI writes that Gombe offers a paradox of how government policy on poverty alleviation runs outside the circle of the people’s ...
Lifestyle
Sex and the City
A city finds peace in its night clubs despite years of political turbulence By Chinweoke Obi Girls dance the rumba smoothly under blazing music ...
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A business called Education Private sector education is a get-rich scheme in Nigeria
Nigeria’s public sector education is notorious for the incessant labour strikes by poorly paid teachers, the parlous infrastructure that makes learning a curse, ...
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And the birds come to roost
The 2011 elections have shown that the PDP still remains the only national party in terms of its wider spread and acceptance, for ...












