Monday , January 29 2024

Opinion Articles

There is no ‘insecurity’ in Nigeria

By Tony Ogunlowo Nigeria has recently been voted for as one of the safest countries in the world to live in. It has a zero-crime rate and you’re a lot safer walking the streets of Lagos than you are in London or New York.

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Entrench equity, fairness and justice to enhance security

By Andrew A. Erakhrumen Today, it appears that there is more than meets the eye concerning the unceasingly growing insecurity in every part of Nigeria. This is particularly disheartening because of the speculations, and/or striking naked facts, flying around, in the public domain.

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After Brexit, thousands of foreign truckers went home. Now, Britain wants them back.

“You have to remember that drivers spend most of their time on their own. They always remember when someone did something wrong to them,” one trucker said. By Alexander Smith LONDON — Faced with dry gas stations and bare grocery shelves, the British government is offering 5,000 temporary visas for foreign truck drivers to prevent a looming crisis ahead of Christmas.

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NDDC: Time to restore legality

By Samson R. Osagie, Ph.D By virtue of Section 1 of the Niger Delta Development Commission (Establishment etc) Act No.6 Laws of the Federation of Nigeria, the Niger-Delta Development Commission (hereinafter referred to as the “NDDC”) was established for the nine oil-producing states of Abia, Akwa-Ibom, Bayelsa, Cross River, Delta, Edo, Imo, Ondo, and Rivers.

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Bill Cosby’s release is exactly why rape survivors don’t come forward

By Moira Donegan The conviction of a high-profile rapist sends a message women rarely hear: rape is wrong. Cosby’s release snatches that away Bill Cosby was released from a Pennsylvania prison on Wednesday after the Pennsylvania supreme court vacated his 2018 conviction for drugging and sexually assaulting Andrea Constand in 2004. Cosby, who has been accused of a pattern of …

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‘It is obscene’: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie pens blistering essay against social media sanctimony

The novelist describes helping two writers who went on to insult her online, and condemns era of ‘angels jostling to out-angel one another’ Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie has written a detailed essay about the conduct of young people on social media “who are choking on sanctimony and lacking in compassion”, who she says are part of a generation “so terrified of …

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