Charles Imuzeze The teenage years can be an emotional roller-coaster for all concerned. A gap can grow between parents and their children during adolescence because this age is driven a search for individual identity and competition. Being a time of rapid physical development and profound emotional changes, it makes most teenagers/adolescents find it so difficult to …
By Carl Umegboro President of the United States of America, Donald Trump, recently classified religious places of worship as essential public places, thereby part of essential services providers in the United States, and ordered governors of all the states to immediately lift lockdown on all churches, mosques and synagogues. Trump went as far as threatening …
By Omopeju Afanu Are African leaders as bad as they appear to be? Taking a close look at the happenings across Africa during this great pandemic, it brought so much to the fore. The people make the leaders! What type of people are we as a whole? Do we trust each other? Can we be …
By Carl Umegboro The Peoples’ Democratic Party (PDP) in its reaction to President Muhammadu Buhari’s second address to the nation on Monday 13 April, 2020 on the state of the nation vis-à-vis Coronavirus pandemic, knocked most of the points in the President’s address. Though, PDP is arguably known with carpeting all actions of the ruling …
By Carl Umegboro THE extension of the lockdown for another 2 weeks by President Muhammadu Buhari is not a bad idea on account that other counties affected by the dreadful coronavirus contagion; codenamed Covid-19 are still under lockdown. Even countries that are more advanced in science and technology than Nigeria are all adopting the same …
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By Carl Umegboro His Lordship, Hon Justice Chima Nweze, a Justice of the Supreme Court of Nigeria has unremittingly demonstrated that justice must not only be done, but manifestly seen to have been done. The learned jurist has in the recent times not relented in adopting holistic approaches while adjudicating on matters before him. Obviously, …
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BY PRINCE RUTHERFORD You have banned foreign trips for your officials. You have shut down NYSC orientation camps. You have shut down schools and colleges. You have partially shut down religious centres and restrained gathering to a certain number of persons. But you say that foreigners from countries heavily plagued by the Coronavirus can still …
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BY CARL UMEGBORO Recently, the Lagos governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, outlawed commercial motorcycles and tricycles in the state leading to pandemonium and criticisms from every nooks and crannies of the state. From government’s side, the action was targeted at reducing the crime rate in the society. Admitted, most of the heinous crimes are perpetrated in collusion …
By Carl Umegboro Quite distinct from commonly held belief as beggars, Almajiri was derived from Arabic word, “Al-Muhajirun” meaning emigrants. It typically refers to a person who devotedly leaves home to other place or to an instructor in the quest for Islamic knowledge. Thus, Almajiri is characteristically, a Qur’anic literacy and system of Islamic education …
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By Carl Umegboro The Supreme Court of Nigeria has since its decision on the Imo state governorship tussle on 14 January, 2020 found itself in the eyes of the storm. In the decision, the candidate of the Peoples’ Democratic Party (PDP), Emeka Ihedioha, was sacked from office as Imo governor and replaced with candidate of …
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