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By Bolanle Bolawole

Politics apart, the aggregate of opinion is that Nigeria is in a very bad shape; opinion is divided, though, on what needs to be done to return it to a better shape. Has this become a mission impossible? Can Nigeria be salvaged or is it beyond redemption? Is the task of our heroes, past and present, condemned to being like that of Sisyphus? Greek mythology records that Sisyphus, a king of Corinth, was punished in Hades (Hell) for his misdeeds by being condemned eternally to rolling a heavy stone up a hill: Each time he approached the top of the hill, the stone escaped his grasp, rolled to the bottom, ad nauseam, ad infinitum! Nigeria escaped what we thought was a gripping debt burden under President Olusegun Obasanjo only to run headlong into a more scandalously vicious debt trap nuder President Muhammadu Buhari!

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By Jude Ogechi Eze

The title of this piece was influenced by a drama book titled: "Our Husband has gone mad again" authored and published in 1977, by one of Nigeria's leading playwrights and theatre directors — Olawale Gladstone Emmanuel Rotimi, best known as Ola Rotimi.

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By Ikeddy Isiguzo

Without stretching one's memory, it is always easier to remember an ill that the police did. This tends to erase whatever good the police did, and still do. Even in the worst of times, we have been beneficiaries of the goodness of the few policeman and women who remind us that policing is fir the society's good.

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By Fred Chukwuelobe

I am doing a follow-up to the article I wrote yesterday entitled, “City of David, The Wigwes, And the Iluyomades.” You may think I am over flogging the matter; no, I am not. I am doing this because I got a call from a top level member of the Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG), City of David. He called in response to that article and to state his own views and clarify issues raised in it.

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By Bruce Malogo

All death is bad. To die in one’s sleep does not make it any less so. If anything, it makes it even more so. For the living, those left to mourn, the shock can be paralyzing; in fact, it does paralyze – like the death of Prof. Anselm Emevwo Biakolo. A professor emeritus of Pan Atlantic University, Lekki in Lagos, Biakolo passed on in his sleep on February 8, 2024. People who saw him a few hours before he died said he spent the day in his office. That would suggest that he had no obvious physical distress, not to talk of a hint of death. But that’s the manner of such death. It slitters in and stealthily picks its prey, and let the world bleed all it can.

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By Kunle Oyatomi

There’s this oft-stated legend about two men viewing a glass of water filled halfway. Asked what he or she sees, one says the cup is half empty. Sociologists describe them as pessimists, who would always have a negative outlook to life because they refuse to acknowledge other aspects of the scene. They believe that they have been permanently conditioned by a negativity that would guide them in the present and throughout life.

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