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Ebonyi housewife sentenced to death by hanging for killing co-wife and her seven children
EBONYI housewife Agnes Nwefuru has been sentenced to death by the state high court sitting in Abakaliki by hanging for killing her co-wife and seven children in a fit of jealousy that wracked her polygamous home. In a bizarre case and...
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Can we take our minds off government for a minute and ask ourselves why Nigeria does not produce industrialists like these 10 individuals
By Ayo Akinfe (1) Andrew Mellon was born into the right era for a steel industrialist like him – the mid 19th century. His father was a successful banker who introduced him to the world of business. It wasn’t long before he got into...
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10 things that happened on December 8 which gives me hope that ultimately Nigeria will get it right
By Ayo Akinfe (1) On this day in 1941, US President Franklin Roosevelt delivers his "Day of Infamy" speech to US Congress a day after the bombing of Pearl Harbour. Within a year, they had got their fleet back up to full strength. Human ingenuity...
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Sowore’s ordeal just drives home the point that the idle mind is the devil’s workshop
By Ayo Akinfe (1) Like 200m other Nigerians, I simply cannot get my head around how this government has the time, energy and interest in pursuing critics at a time when it has a plethora of major socio-economic challenges facing it. I ask myself...
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We may need a Proceeds of Corruption Investment Directorate
By Ayo Akinfe(1) So Senator Orji Uzor Kalu has been sentenced to 12 years in jail for embezzling $21m. Personally, I doubt if he will serve his sentence as trust then Nigerian elite, they will always find ways around the law (2) Senator Kalu will...
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When we are ready to fight for a better future like Rosa Parks did we will get the change we desire in Nigeria
By Ayo Akinfe Today is December 5. It was on this day that the Alabama Bus Boycott began in 1955, the Monday after Rosa Parks was arrested for refusing to surrender her seat to a white person. I love this lady from the very bottom of my heart as she...
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Nigeria and Iran agree to establish bi-national commission to combat gas flaring in the Niger Delta
NIGERIA and Iran have signed a bilateral agreement that involves the establishment of a bi-national commission to enhance trade investment and technology transfer especially in the gas sector. On the sidelines of the recent fifth Summit...
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Why do we not celebrate this great man who laid down his life for us every December
By Ayo Akinfe We are now into December and in a festive mood when we recognise and appreciate those who laid down their lives for us but alas, the negro fails to celebrate one caucasian who was executed for them. A white gentleman...
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