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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 ...
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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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Uncle’s rod of vengeance (a true story)
The year was 1996. Daddy had lost his job several years earlier, and had been unable to secure another one ever since. Mom ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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Zanu PF's Congress shows Mugabe days numbered
Zimbabwe’s long time ruler President Robert Mugabe has built a reputation as an astute and cunning politician. For close to three decades he ...
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Kagame re-elected to lead ruling party
Rwanda’s President Paul Kagame has been re-elected as the Chairman of the ruling party, the Rwanda Patriotic Front (RPF) to serve for four ...
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Bush better than Obama on aids in Africa
Activists are expressing disappointment with President Barack Obama’s plans for the Aids treatment programme in Africa, charging that he has fallen short of ...
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Mugabe flays Zimbabwe's power-sharing, prepares for new elections
n a comment that may heighten the political crisis in Zimbabwe, President Robert Mugabe at the weekend said the fragile power-sharing government in ...
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EFCC orders detained banks CEOs to surrender shares
Detained banks’ chiefs, yesterday, alleged that the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC’s operatives were asking them to bargain for their freedom with ...












