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As 2025 draws to a close, President Bola Tinubu’s administration presents Nigerians…
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Kotei chewed on the flameless cigarette between two fingers on his left…
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Official put-offs to ‘put off’ in 2026
Dear reader, I care, so I honestly offer you this counsel: quit…
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I cannot decide whether or not to be astonished that some people…
Trump’s Christmas gift and 2025 in retrospect
In the next forty-eight hours, the world would bid goodbye to the…
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To state that there are gaps in the implementation of the 2024…
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This proverb framed my thoughts as I stood on the historic grounds…
Detty December, afrobeats, and Nigeria’s counter-narrative of joy
Somehow Christmas 2025 got me thinking and I have to confess, I…