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Federal Nigerian Army Blunders of the Nigerian Civil War - Part 4

By Nowa Omoigui

OWERRI, 1969 - PART 4Cutting off the 16th Bde in order to kill itThe Political and strategic contextFollowing the fall of Port Harcourt to federal tro...

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NIGERIAN CIVIL WAR FILE Federal Nigerian Army Blunders of the Nigerian Civil War - Part 2

By Nowa Omoigui

OWERRI, 1969 -  PART 2 Background to the Siege of Owerri The year 1968 opened up in earnest, continuing a pattern that had been set on ...

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NIGERIAN CIVIL WAR FILE Federal Nigerian Army Blunders of the Nigerian Civil War - Part 1

By Nowa Omoigui

All through recorded history, armies, small and great have not only recorded victories but also disasters.  Military History buffs will recall gr...

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EVIDENCE THAT DEMAND VERDICT -Treasury Looting-

Treasury Looting (Part 1)During my study at the school of evangelism, my professor thought me to believe that it is possible to win an argument but lo...

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Fellow Nigerians, It's Time For Sacrifice

By Simon Kolawole

culled from THISDAY, October 16, 2005The story is told of a white missionary who came to serve in an African leprosarium. He kept preaching "God loves...

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From "Glover’s Hausas" to 4 Guards Battalion - 141 years later

By Nowa Omoigui

The month of June has special significance to the Nigerian Army. The oldest unit in what is now known as the "Nigerian Army" was born on June 1st, 186...

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From May 1962 to May 1963: State of Emergency in Western Nigeria and in Nigeria

By Mobolaji E. Aluko, Ph.D.

INTRODUCTIONOn Tuesday, May 18, 2004 , President Obasanjo , citing Section 305 of the 1999 Constitution, imposed a state of emergency on Plateau State...

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AN OPEN LETTER ON THE STATE OF THE NATION

By From Tinubu to Obasanjo and Buhari

Your Excellency General Olusegun ObasanjoYour Excellency General Muhammadu Buhari:------------------------Our dear leaders,I find it necessary to writ...

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Funso Williams Left Politics To The Dogs

By Farouk Martins, Omo Ares

Political assassination in Nigeria has become so common regardless of party affiliation; it makes one wonder who in his or her right mind would dare i...

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Every Hand In The Pocket

By Eziuche Ubani

culled from THIS DAY, March 24, 2005When the House of Representatives gave the marching orders to its member, Dr. Haruna Yerima, for alleged unparliam...

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Even If Ebonyi Has No Male Child

By John Iteshi

Most Nigerians would readily lavish praises on the governor of Ebonyi State, Dr. Sam Egwu of Ebonyi state because of the glowing pictures often presen...

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Ethical Responsibility And The Nigerian Public Servant

By Olaewe Ewegbemi

Democracy functions at its best when people know and exercise their rights,  get involved and when the servant is not placed over the served. Her...

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Ethics, Free Speech And The Press

By Jaafar Jaafar

Since the debut of world’s first printed newspaper, Dibao (Pao) in the seventeenth century in China, newspapers, the historians say, have supported,...

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Eradication of Inter-Cultism Violence in Nigerian Tertiary Institutions

By Roy Chikwem

The escalation of inter-fraternal violence in our tertiary institutions remains an intense disappointment and embarrassment to the nation. The latest ...

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Enugu State And The EFCC: Our Stand

The Enugu State government and people woke up Saturday morning to confront a piece of curious, ingenuously creative, yet unsigned publication purporte...

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