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Talking About a Revolution

Don’t you know They’re talking about a revolution It sounds like a whisper While they’re standing in the welfare lines Crying at the

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Budget 2019: Pulling a Gun We Know We Can’t Shoot

“There are two ways to be fooled. One is to believe what isn’t true; the other is to refuse to believe what is

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Illiteracy + Ignorance + Poverty = Banditry

“Extreme poverty anywhere is a threat to human security everywhere.” – Kofi Annan “Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime.” – Aristotle Late Gen.

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To Hell with Self(ish) Interests

“Politics is a strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles; the conduct of public affairs for private advantage” – Ambrose Bierce

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Still on ‘Made in China’

Penultimate week, we had discussed the above issue which generated a lot of debate going by the number of mails I received from

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Made in China

“When I was growing up, my parents told me, ‘Finish your dinner. People in China and India are starving.’ I tell my daughters,

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First Bank: Still Standing Gidigba 125 Years After

This week marks the celebration of the 125th anniversary of the existence of the First Bank franchise in Nigeria. This stands the bank

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Why Do Bad Things Happen to Good People? Celebrating Eze Eric Alomefuna (1960-2019)

“Heaven knows we need never be ashamed of our tears, for they are rain upon the blinding dust of earth, overlying our hard

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Teacher, Don’t Teach Me Nonsense – II

“The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead” Aristotle (384-322BC).“Training is everything. The peach was once a

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Inflation As Taxation Without Legislation

“Inflation is when you pay fifteen dollars for the ten-dollar haircut you used to get for five dollars when you had hair”. Sam

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