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Op-ed Editor June 2, 2017

Ikemesit Effiong: Analyzing El-rufai’s horrific human rights abuses and Audu Maikori’s N10bn lawsuit

What happens next to Audu Maikori should concern you. Here’s why. Audu Maikori has gone on the offensive and for good reason. If you’re a little lost as…

Op-Ed Editor October 12, 2014

@JudgeIyke: The #Chibok girls and Malala’s legacy (Y! FrontPage)

by Ikemesit Effiong Early in 2013, long before talk about her became the new sexy in the West’s media circus or Nigerian social media circles, I asked a salient question,…

Op-Ed Editor October 5, 2014

@Judgeiyke: Mr. President, Nigeria cannot be transformed in a day but… (Y! FrontPage)

by Ikemesit Effiong In a measured Independence Day broadcast to the nation, President Goodluck Jonathan said amongst other things that “we were in a sober moment in our country”. It was…

Op-Ed Editor September 7, 2014

Ikemesit Effiong: Nigerian youths and the ‘get rich quick syndrome’ (Y! FrontPage)

by Ikemesit Effiong Let’s cut a long story short. That section of Nigeria under the age of 35 inhabits a fabled existence. We want to get out of university (which…

Op-Ed Editor August 30, 2014

Ikemesit Effiong: The Iraqi Christians and Northern Nigerian Christians are equal (Y! FrontPage)

by Ikemesit Effiong Last Thursday, Olaiya Phillips, the chairman of the Northern Christian Elders Forum, movingly asked the world in the Huffington Post, “Are Iraqi Christians Worth More Than Nigerian…

Op-Ed Editor August 23, 2014

Ikemesit Effiong: The National Conference is a failure – Here is why

by Ikemesit Effiong In case you may not have noticed, the most colourful circus in our nation’s history, the 2014 National Conference, has finally come to an end. Trust me,…

Op-Ed Editor August 20, 2014

Opinion: The danger of a single tweet – What Mayowa got very wrong about #Sugabelly

by Ikemesit Effiong So Twitter (or more appropriately, social media) has been all the rage over last Wednesday’s edition of a popular relationships discussion session, No Holds Barred Interactive –…

Op-Ed Editor August 17, 2014

Ikemesit Effiong: Hamas is nothing like Boko Haram (Y! FrontPage)

by Ikemesit Effiong If anything, Hamas is doing what all political parties charged with the sovereignty and collective responsibility for its country – respond in like manner, within its resources…

August 3, 2014

Ikemesit Effiong: Fix Nigerias education system now (Y! FrontPage)

by Ikemesit Effiong London-based ‘newspaper,’ The Economist, lamented the grotesque dimensions of Nigerian education in a scathing July 9 article. This week, a letter from an acquaintance joined the daily chorus…

July 27, 2014

Ikemesit Effiong: Living with ghosts of Kaduna (Y! FrontPage)

by Ikemesit Effiong Now, all I'm left with are ghosts. Ghosts that wake me up at night. Ghosts that ask me questions, engage me in conversations - about my life;…

July 20, 2014

Ikemesit Effiong: The Isreali-Gaza conflict from a Nigerian perspective (Y! FrontPage)

by Ikemesit Effiong While it is not my intent to venture into dissecting the salient arguments, views and points of the current conflict, there is something underwhelming from a Nigerian…

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