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Nigerians stay awake! Obasanjo and ‘owners of Nigeria’ plotting another June 12, By Louis Odion, FNGE
One read with bewilderment, even a sense of dark foreboding, the statement by former President, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, yesterday calling…
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Atiku: The peril of inordinate ambition, By Louis Odion, FNGE
Atiku is a conflicted bigot, consumed by inordinate ambition. He remains a bare-foot slave to an empire the Nigeria of…
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The grand lady of old Grandma School, By Louis Odion, FNGE
Universal folklore tends to cast their type in dim tabloid lights. Hence, the pejorative — “old wives’ tale”. Just to…
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Finally, a new Nigerian Patriarch, By Louis Odion, FNGE
To frame the epic coronation at the Eagle Square Tuesday night casually as Jagaban’s triumph is to omit one significant…
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Oshiomhole @ 70: The Untold Stories, By Louis Odion, FNGE
“Yes, next?” “Sir, the next person on the list,” continued the Senior Special Assistant on Protocols in Edo Government House…
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Tunji Bello: A Mentor Extraordinaire at 60, By Louis Odion, FNGE
Though sounding casual, it nonetheless caught me completely off-guard, leaving this numbing sensation that reminded me of what a treacherous hammer blow…
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Sam Omatseye: 60 Gun-salute to the Literary General, By Louis Odion, FNGE
Back in the ’90s, we used to time each of his literary parturitions, the way a sprinter’s dash on the…
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Keynesian Bouquet for ‘Starboy’ @ 64, By Louis Odion, FNGE
Sobriety – if not austere aloofness – would ordinarily appear the chief trait that defines a varsity professor. This probably…
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He Stuttered, But Never a Clutter in Sam’s Words, By Louis Odion, FNGE
The Samuel we read in the Holy Bible was a transformational figure in the Old Testament. Through him finally came…
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Fuel: The Day of Reckoning is Here, By Louis Odion, FNGE
It is a factual error to conflate the subsidy uprising of 2012 and the crisis of 2020. True, both speak…
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