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While the shocking but not so shocking revelations from recent interviews conducted by a Nigerian Media Merit award winning, Best TV station of the year for the thirteenth time running has been labelled ‘anti-government’ by the country’s government, one cannot but wonder. Really? Since when have questions and discussions about abductions, destruction of properties and livelihoods, the ruin of certain sub-national entities that have made many homeless, become “anti-government”? Since when have discussions aimed at…
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Would there ever be a change to and in the way we treat or relate with ourselves? I have read and heard of how persons or a relative in power favour family members or people from his/her tribe. For example, the ethnic composition of the armed forces in the case of The Zaghawas is not reflective of the country’s power configuration as a whole. President Idriss Déby’s ethnic group, has dominated the army and key military posts ever…
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Time is a Revealer Christ was treated as we deserve that we may be treated as He deserves The mind is its own place and in itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven – Milton Mercy took away from me what belongs to me but grace brought to me what I never merited. Never leave a friend in sorrow for every parting may be the last Those who bring happiness to…
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To thrive as well as ensure her continuity, society strives not to upset the social order. Likewise, humans refer to product manuals or handbooks for instruction and direction to guide against product misuse. The earth, evidenced in her intricate designs, points in the direction of a Divine Manufacturer and like any other manufactured product, it could therefore be said, that, there is an accompanying manual with ‘the product earth’ howbeit spiritual but physically evidenced in…
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Over the years, I read the worrisome and disheartening reports of how Nigerian security officers, law enforcement agents and government officials sexually exploit/violate, drug, rape and otherwise abuse the girls and women in IDP (Internally Displaced Persons) camps, a camp set up to care for those displaced by the insurgency of the Boko-Haram terrorist group in the North-Eastern part of Nigeria. These ones are daily abused and would rather not speak regarding the atrocities from…