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On Disinheriting Igbo Daughters

In 1981, when Lazarus Ogbonna Ukeje died, his daughter Gladys, was supposed to inherit nothing from him. Not because they’d had a falling out. Not bec

Beyond Corruption Perceptions Index 2020

Every year, the publication of the Corruption Perception Index (CPI), computed by Transparency International (TI) based in Germany and published in Ni

The coming second American civil war

In the late 1980s and early 90s as the last ramparts of the Communist Soviet empire was collapsing, the Americans were in a triumphant mood as the pol

On the Dismissal of a Pregnant, Unmarried Police Officer

Of all the stupidest things I read this week, none was more stupid than the Ekiti State Police Command  standing behind their  dismissal  of a pregnan

Trumpism and Christianity: A marriage of strange bedfellows

For some time now, Christianity has been under all kinds of threats. Chief among them is the persecution by fanatical sects who hide under Islam to pe