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Ethnic Animosity in Nigeria: A choice to Progress as Friends or Perish as Foes
The level of acrimony between the youths of some ethnic groups in Nigeria is getting out of hand. Sometimes you wonder if they were taught from birth to hate. Methinks it is more natural to love than to hate. I grew up in Makurdi and my childhood friends in my neighbourhood were Igbos, Igalas, Efik etc, but our ethnic differences […]
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Nigerian Leaders Must Be Responsible
Sometime last year the outbreak of a deadly virus called Coronavirus has taken the lives of people in multitudes. I ask myself, could this be as a result of mismanagement, nonchalant attitude or irresponsibility of the leaders? All thanks to COVID-19 for making them realise the need for immediate development in our health care system by providing and equipping it […]
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Your Minister’s Portfolio
Whether you support a minister or his portfolio, I think the hilarious part of all this banter, arguments and insults is the fact that: There is still no light in your house. There is still no water. No ambulance will come to pick you up in an emergency. If one needs oxygen in the underequipped hospitals, he will die. River […]
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Don’t Live For Only You; I Was Once A Corper in Benue
This is probably the first journey where I’m not the first to sleep inside the vehicle… Journeys give us time to reminisce. While I proceeded to the park, on a motorcycle, I felt the urge to put my two hands up in the air and do the peace sign with my fingers…but I couldn’t, both hands were holding luggage. As […]
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Your Root Is Your Heritage
No matter where you grow up, never forget your roots. We have all found ourselves instrange lands either due to jobs, up-bringing and settlement. This should never be a yardstick to forget our roots, I was in the office working one day and ayoung lady who had just gotten admission into the University for further studies came in tosee my […]
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To Write About One Who Means So Much To You
Dearest Debbie Chagu, Drawing from the fuel of my emotions, my pen trembles as it begins its journey of writing to you about you. Even for a writer, the words to flesh my thoughts correctly have suddenly gone extinct and my vocabulary begging for an overhaul, for how do you begin to write about one who means so much to […]
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The Devil In The Rat
This particular rat troubled us in our apartment in 2017. We tried every trick to kill the rat for months, it will always escape like the cat with nine lives. The pain of pouring away contaminated foodstuff was too much for me to bear. I bought different kinds of poison and traps and invented different kinds of tricks to no […]
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Reputation of Benue People Outside Benue State
I have always complained about the reputation of Benue people outside of Benue. In 2015, when I was going for my internship with Nigerian Communications Commission in Abuja, I was warned not to hastily introduce myself as Tiv, as that would likely instigate some bad blood for me before I properly settle. Sadly, I got to NCC and disregarded […]
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NKST Church: Is It Really Indigenous?
I knew the NKST church to be a Tiv church but it seemed my knowledge was limited when I discovered the NKST Church in Abeokuta and not just that it was located there but was dominated by the Yoruba. I was propelled to upgrade my knowledge of this church. You may think I am promoting a church, so let me […]
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Take Me Back To Makurdi
Take me back to Makurdi To the calm mornings when school children hurried off to school happy and carefree Where the ubiquitous white painted buses glided from Wadata to Wurukum laden with families who didn’t see others as Christians or Muslims When a late-night hangout wasn’t a rape attack or death sentence! Take me back to the Makurdi Where we played […]
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