Tag: Cheta Nwanze

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May 16, 2014

Cheta Nwanze: Lessons from the Nigerian economy

by Cheta Nwanze First lesson is that our government thinks that poverty alleviation is handing out largesses, creating jobs that ...

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May 15, 2014

The end of the beginning – and more in today’s news round-up with Cheta Nwanze

by Cheta Nwanze Yesterday, Major-General Abubakar Mohammed, General Officer Commanding, 7 Division, Nigerian Army, was shot at by troops under ...

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May 12, 2014

Cheta Nwanze: Remembering the ultra-radical nationalist, Herbert Macaulay

by Cheta Nwanze Obafemi Awolowo described him as “ultra-radical, intensely nationalistic and virulently anti-white”. Piers Brendon described Macaulay in later ...

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May 12, 2014

Look at all these rumours – and more in today’s news round-up with Cheta Nwanze

by Cheta Nwanze   To be honest, we must take a long, hard, look at ourselves. The virus which afflicts ...

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May 8, 2014

Claiming the NPF’s N50 million reward – and more in today’s news round-up with Cheta Nwanze

by Cheta Nwanze Forgive my cynicism, but if a probable rapist, who spent N2000 as was reported in some quarters, ...

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May 8, 2014

Cheta Nwanze: Nigeria’s baby boom will lead to an explosion

by Cheta Nwanze Between 2008 and 2011, 5.4 million babies were born in Europe. I mean Europe, not the European ...

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May 7, 2014

No more pride – and more in today’s news round-up with Cheta Nwanze

by Cheta Nwanze ….you form a group and terrorise citizens; kill a few of them, nothing happens; kill you a ...

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May 5, 2014

Abuja’s new, improved security arrangements – and more in today’s news round-up with Cheta Nwanze

by Cheta Nwanze ….it isn’t at all easy to be your brother’s keeper when you know for a fact that ...

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May 2, 2014

An open letter to my President – and more in today’s news round-up with Cheta Nwanze

by Cheta Nwanze Mr President, I was one of the organisers of the Enough is Enough protests in which we ...

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April 30, 2014

Cheta Nwanze: Checkmate and the passing away of Amaka Igwe

by Cheta Nwanze The creative brain behind the series realised the potential of one of its sub-plots, and spun it ...

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April 29, 2014

Human trafficking trade – and more, in today’s news roundup with Cheta Nwanze

by Cheta Nwanze …. if you are in Abuja, please join in the rally tomorrow. Your voice must be heard. ...

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April 24, 2014

Our president is losing focus – and more, in today’s news roundup with Cheta Nwanze

by Cheta Nwanze To be fair to Uncle Nyesom, members of his real constituency have been active elsewhere, so maybe, just ...

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April 23, 2014

Effect of the receding Lake Chad on insecurity – and more, in today’s news roundup with Cheta Nwanze

by Cheta Nwanze   It should come as no surprise that tensions in the Borno area have gone up as ...

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April 22, 2014

The merits of Nyako’s argument – and more, in today’s news roundup with Cheta Nwanze

by Cheta Nwanze When someone preaches hate, which Mr. Nyako has done, do not tell me to look at “the merit of ...

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April 14, 2014

Cheta Nwanze: A short history of the slave trade

by Cheta Nwanze Before we go on, we must set the records straight: Slavery, was not an invention of the ...

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April 7, 2014

Cheta Nwanze: What Nigeria needs to know about the ‘global economy’

by Cheta  Nwanze Today’s piece is about economic systems, the World Bank and the IMF, and whether they have they ...

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March 30, 2014

Cheta Nwanze: A short history of Boko Haram

by Cheta Nwanze When someone attempts to negotiate on behalf of the group, think Baba Fugu Mohammed, he is quickly ...

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March 10, 2014

Cheta Nwanze: A history lesson – Nigeria’s first coup

by Cheta Nwanze To understand first, the coup of January 15, 1966, we must not take it in isolation, something ...

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March 8, 2014

Cheta Nwanze: Why there will never be a revolution in Nigeria

by Cheta Nwanze The people may desire freedom, but history teaches us that the final trigger for change in any ...

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February 23, 2014

Cheta Nwanze: How this government got it very wrong on Sanusi

by Cheta Nwanze Let’s face it people, a major heist is going on, and for all his faults, a leaky ...

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January 18, 2014

All the pictures you should see from the GenVoices Telethon in Lagos (PHOTOS)

What: GenVoices Telethon. Where: Koga Studios, Oregun, Lagos. When: January 18, 2014. Photos by Hycinth Iyereosa    

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August 1, 2013

Sen. Yerima is quite a reasonable fellow – and more, in today’s news roundup with Cheta Nwanze

by Cheta Nwanze My own little problem with him remains his continued use of Islam to defend his tastes. In ...

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July 29, 2013

Cheta Nwanze: Yerima is all about himself and little of Islam (Y! FrontPage)

by Cheta Nwanze The world will always be full o’people like Yerima who will always attempt to twist conditions for ...

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July 25, 2013

Moving on – and more, in today’s news roundup with Cheta Nwanze

by Cheta Nwanze Truth is that no amount of crocodile tears can change the facts. The fact is that we, ...

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July 23, 2013

Now that we know our lawmakers cannot read – and more, in today’s news roundup with Cheta Nwanze

by Cheta Nwanze ….Ayo Akinyelure claimed that he cast the vote in error. “I pressed the ‘No’ button during the electronic ...

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July 23, 2013

Gov. Dickson sure has a thing for under-age girls too – and more, in today’s news roundup with Cheta Nwanze

by Cheta Nwanze ….Bayelsa etibo, Dickson, shows it is not only Yerima that has a thing for under-age girls as ...

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July 22, 2013

Cheta Nwanze: I am sick and tired of ignorant people with BlackBerrys (Y! FrontPage)

by Cheta Nwanze Changing that discussion requires actually going to the National Assembly and putting the issue on the table. Until we ...

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July 19, 2013

Nigerian lawmakers and the age of consent – and more, in today’s news roundup with Cheta Nwanze

by Cheta Nwanze ….in the last few days, we have had our Senate more or less tell us that the moment a ...

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July 16, 2013

Patience Jonathan’s claim to authority – and more, in today’s news roundup with Cheta Nwanze

by Cheta Nwanze  Maybe it’s just me, but methinks that the unnamed elders in this report should bring their ‘elderly’ influence to bear. ...

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July 15, 2013

Cheta Nwanze: We are not our brothers’ keepers, Nigerians (Y! FrontPage)

by Cheta Nwanze   In August 2011 when it was announced that cleaning up Ogoniland in the Niger Delta region ...

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