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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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Pope Francis To Roman Clergy: ‘The True Revolution Is To Go To The Roots’
“It is very important to go back to seek the roots of our faith,” said Pope Francis to the priests of the Diocese of Rome, gathered in the Basilica of Saint John Lateran for the traditional appointment at the beginning of Lent. Before beginning his long meditation, the Pontiff heard the confession of some of the priests. A meditation within […]
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Sokoto Was My First Window Into The Wider World And City Life
It was 2001 and I was just a 16 year old boy out of secondary school. Made my WAEC and NECO and eager to get admission into Uthman Dan Fodiyo University. Straight outta village heading to the desert. Spent hours on the road. Passed through cities and states. We spent 2 days to get to Sokoto. I met a new […]
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‘Precisely 1970, We Were Living In Paradise In Benue State’ – Bula
I was born in the post civil war era of Nigeria. Precisely, 1970. When suspicion, lack of trust and dread amongst ethnic nationalities, tribes and religions was supposedly at its highest; where nepotism was the order of the day but never did I see or ever imagined we as a Nation would get to the abyss of this dreaded nation divider […]
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It Is Better You Leave Alive Than Have Your Corpse Taken Out Of That Marriage
More women are coming out of abusive relationships everyday, baring it all, telling the world how much they had to sacrifice in such relationships… Most of these women did a lot of things initially to make the world think they were in the best relationships… painting the perfect pictures, until it became too much to keep up… Why do women […]
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