Category: Politics
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EndSars: The Lingering Pangs of October 20 in the Lives of Nigerians.
Written by Chinwekene Daniel Umeaka “During the #EndSars protests, I was an online protester, I don’t think I have ever retweeted or tweeted in my life as much as I did during that period. I was proud to be a part of ‘change,’ but when 20/10/20 happened, the part of me that really believed in […]
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South Africa’s Ban on Tobacco Due to COVID-19 is Needless.
South Africa has entered a far too familiar terrain with its ban on tobacco. Unfortunately, this journey the government has embarked on is doomed. Placing a statewide prohibition on goods that are mutually exchanged often leaves sour marks on the economic, social, and health status of the people. With a product like tobacco, which still […]
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End Sars, Our New National Anthem.
The Oppressed must not, cannot be neutral in the struggle of the oppressed against the oppressor. -Kwame Nkrumah The last couple of days has been characterized by an uproar in the Nigerian society. Many Nigerians including celebrities have now taken their demands from just the social media platforms available to them to the streets demanding […]
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Fascism: What the World Never Admits.
The democracy we say we practice today, is not at all different from yesterday’s Fascism because they both produce the same results in our present time with exception to war. _Oluwapelumi Okeh. Fascism is a political philosophy and system of ruling that exalts the nation and often race, above the individuals. It is an autocratic […]
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Amidst Covid-19: Nigeria Is Against Herself.
You are probably wondering the reason for this title or perhaps what I mean by a country being against itself. In explaining this, I would have to explain a medical condition. There is a medical phenomenon where cells in the body begin to attack itself (organs and tissues) causing the body to fall sick. This […]
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Covid 19: China makes, we take
A lot of noise has arisen from the discussion as to whether China is responsible for the outbreak of the coronavirus or if they are at the winning side of this viral eruption. Looking back, we would see that China is not a newcomer when it comes to viruses. They have been majorly criticized for […]
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COVID 19 : IS NIGERIA NAKED ?
The COVID 19 virus (otherwise known as the Coronavirus) that originated in Wuhan, China is a pandemic that has disrupted the world at every level. It has brought fear, crisis, distress, anxiety, worry, complete shutdown of various industries and economy and even death. Just like the arrival of its cousin the “Spanish flu” in 1918. […]
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Covid 19 : Where is our President?
Where is our President? This has been the question in the mouths and hearts of thousands of Nigerians since the outbreak of the COVID 19 outbreak in Nigeria. Unlike other countries such as Canada, China, the United States of America Japan, France, the United States, and others in Africa such as Tanzania, Ghana, South Africa, […]
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The Nucleus Between Religion and Regression in Nigeria.
When I decided to write on this issue, I was not sure about the direction I wanted to go with this piece. At first, I thought about religion and then I thought about its impact on society and from there I started to link one or two in my head. I’m sure there have been […]