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He who gains victory over other men is strong, but he who gains victory over himself is all-powerful — Lao-tse. LEKE dropped out of school at Junior Secondary School (Class Three) due

AS history affirms time and again, certain existential phenomena are true for all time. One of the obvious cases is the corruptibility of persons entrusted with public office. Abuse of public trust

THESE are truly ecstatic times. The political space or terrain is adorned in bright, ornate colours. Characters, events and the general setting bespeak enthusiasm, gaiety, pomp and pageantry. At the deep level meaning,

WHEN the leaders of Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone decided to form the Mano River Union (MRU), they were formalising a relationship between countries that are intertwined in geography, history, ethnicity, culture

DURING a chat recently with a friend, he expressed his concern about the inability of the elderly to stay out of active politics in Nigeria. Why are they not retiring from active

POLITICS is the perpetual struggle for the control of common resources (both human and material) that can be found in all spheres of human existence – from the family stage to the

The decision of President Goodluck Jonathan to also head the Ministry of Power has drawn both constructive criticisms and pungent flaks from both sides of the divide. Some self-adjudged experts in the

Serious and critical observers of the on-going "sanitisation" process in the Nigerian banking system have been framing and reframing the context of the Nigerian banking crisis in order to provide a deeper

I write in protest against the events that took place at the Lagos-Ipaja NYSC Camp during the registration exercise on November 3, 2009. This year, the NYSC has decided to force pregnancy