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Pillaging of Nigeria’s skilled workforce

‘Migrating for greener pastures’ has been a recurrent clause in Nigerians’ daily conversations since the turn of the 1970’s when the culture of milita

Slavery still exists. We must take action

Four centuries ago, the first 20 documented African slaves arrived on the shores of Virginia. In the years that followed, millions more were shipped i

THE NORTH UNDER SIEGE, BY PROF MAIWADA

On the occasion of ten years of the Boko Haram insurgency (2009-2019), a senior academic colleague at Bayero University, the soft-spoken and gentleman

One week in the life of Nigerians

Each week, I go through my newsfeed to pick an issue that I will address in my column. I tried to do so this week and got overwhelmed by too many issu

IPOB and the Igbo ‘lumpen traderiat’

The recent attack on Senator Ike Ekweremadu in Nuremberg Germany by suspected IPOB members have generated wide condemnation. Ekweremadu was to give a