Interviews &amp; Opinion

PUTTING OUR MONEY WHERE OUR MOUTH IS

By Femi Adesina

There is a story that President Muhammadu Buhari likes to tell. He has done so many times in public and private meetings. It goes thus: “After we got inaugurated into office in 2015, I asked the Governor of Central Bank for the state of our finances. He said no money. I was alarmed, and asked where all the money went. Before then, oil prices had hit 143 dollars per barrel, and stabilized at 100 dollars per barrel for a long time. But I was being told there was no money.

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37 Years After: GOV UGWUANYI REMEMBERS 1983 ENUGU PLANE CRASH VICTIMS

By Dr Dons Eze

It was Monday morning, November 28, 1983. The harmattan season was on the air, and the Christmas breeze had also started to blow. As usual, a lot of people were in the upswing mood, moving up and down, looking forward to the great celebration.

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Review of Ugorji’s book “She Is Eternal And Other Poems”

By Reginald Chiekezi Mbajunwa

This is an abbreviated review of poetic works presented in She is eternal and other poems, by Dr Ugorji Okechukwu Ugorji. Published in Nigeria by BlueslandCommunications of Abuja, and in the United States of America by Goldline and Jacobs Publishing of New Jersey, the book, 84 pages in pagination, was released in paperback in March of 2020.

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AS EDO CHOSE OBASEKI, WILL OBASEKI ALSO CHOOSE EDO PEOPLE?

By Eze Jude O

On Saturday, the 19th day of September, 2020, as we all know, history was made in Edo State. The incumbent Governor, Godwin Obaseki, amidst stiff oppositions was re-elected for a second term, in a keenly (neck-to-neck) contested election between the two main political parties - the All Progressives Congress (APC) and the People's Democratic Party (PDP).

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Senator Fide Okoro: THE MAN HIS NSUKKA PEOPLE REFUSED TO MOURN!

By Jude Eze

After reading and following the reactions of Nigerians at the death of Mallam Abba Kyari, Senator Buruji Kashamu and Mallam Isa Funtua, respectively, our weekly feature digest - The Concourse, raised a verdict: It begged all of us who cared to listen to lead good lives and lessen the burden of our prospective biographers - those on whom the work of writing our funeral oration will fall on.

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IGBO LEADERS AND PUBLIC BICKERING

By Dr Dons Eze

For the past two or so months, we have been watching with dismay, some of our Igbo leaders dancing naked in market places, washing their dirty linens in the public square. These are people who we have put our hope on, people we look up to be in the contest for the much talked about Nigerian President of Igbo extraction in 2023.

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