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Mephibosheth was the grandson of King Saul. At a very tender age of 5, tragedy befell him when his nurse, fleeing a raging battle on Mount Gilboa that killed Daddy …
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There is that strident call online from some quarters that the Yoruba should withdraw into a cocoon and be hostile to anyone else. Here, I respond to the call by …
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“The Kenyan political thinker who was unafraid to confront contentious issues.” “The African political scientist who sparked controversy.” The post Paul Zeleza’s reinvention of Ali Mazrui appeared first on The …
Read More »The delay in appointing ambassadors – Part 2
Chief Julius Momo Udochi was the first Nigerian Ambassador to the United States of America, 1960–1965. The post The delay in appointing ambassadors – Part 2 appeared first on The …
Read More »American democracy: Republicans are misogynists – Part 2
Trump would be the forty-seventh president of the United State of America. In his first coming, which no one – except Doug Casey, a starry-eyed pollster – really prophesied, he …
Read More »COP29: Financing just transition for Nigerian workers
In the ongoing 29th Conference of the parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change in Baku, Azerbaijan, the Nigeria Labour Congress organised two side events, one at …
Read More »Obasanjo and Tinubu, two old men naked-ing each other
You can accuse the Bola Tinubu administration of failing on all fronts, but one thing you will never be able to say about his over-bloated press team is that they …
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