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World-historical men-the heroes of an epoch-must be recognized as its clear-sighted ones; their deeds and their words are the best of their

WHEN the story of the tragic killing of the beautiful Cynthia Osokogu broke last week, it got a deserved place on the

AS this year’s Ramadan fast ended, I have reflected upon what I felt was one of the most important gestures of the

FOR residents of Abuja, the past week has been particularly difficult. Before you could pronounce FCT, we returned to a regime of

“You travel by road, tankers will catch fire; by air, plane crashes; you sit in your house, a plane comes to meet

THE ACN never ceases to describe itself as a “progressive” political party. My conception of being progressive is class-based; the party that

LAST week, a suspected ‘operational commander’ of Boko Haram was allegedly arrested in the Farawa Quarter of the city of Kano. If

I SHARE the indignation which informed VANGUARD’s editorial of Monday, May 7th, 2012, titled “NIGERIA-MISTAKE SINCE WHEN?” The editorial noted that “contenders for

BARRING last minute hitches, if WEEKLY TRUST of Saturday, April 7 is to be believed, the city of Kano, will soon make history. It

IF there ever was a need to remind about the connection between grinding poverty, social injustice and hopelessness and the Boko Haram