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20 Mar
Less than a year into his first term, Governor Bassey Otu, is firmly but confidently steering the ship of Cross River State steadily to the coast of economic reawakening as could be gleaned from his recent inauguration of a multi-stakeholders committee to explore ways and means of bolstering palm oil, cocoa and coffee value chain in the state.
20 Mar
An appellate court is a superior competent court of record to which appeals lie from lower courts. It therefore encompasses High Courts, Courts of Appeals and Supreme Courts in countries with a common law heritage.
20 Mar
Power and Equity Theory: This theory acknowledges the potential for power imbalances and inequities between parties in a mediation process.
20 Mar
In this unusual discourse, I promise to simplify the topic choice by connecting the dots and crossing the ‘T’s. The eminent names and phrasal formative words objectively transcend the ordinary.
19 Mar
At the conclusion of AFCON 2023, I wrote in this column that the Super Eagles was now in a good place. I said so because the team never lost any match throughout the tournament, except the final in which the host, Ivory Coast, defeated the Super Eagles by two goals to one.
19 Mar
Nigeria is at a crossroads and Nigerians are trying to find the responses to an economic crisis and currency turmoil. Of course, all manner of symptoms keep appearing! 
19 Mar
he government’s reaction has been customarily caustic and short-fused. Those involved in the looting of a warehouse belonging to the Agric Department Strategic food store, located at Tasha area of Abuja, on March 3. Federal Capital Development Authority (FCTA)
19 Mar
There is no gainsaying the fact that dispute resolution is a crucial component in every facet of human life and one constant variable in our society, like change, is dispute.
19 Mar
Given how crucial regional cooperation is to Africa where intra-regional trade is a paltry 14 per cent, there was a surprisingly muted response to the recent death, at 98, of one of last century’s greatest architects of regional integration: Jacques Delors, the former President of the European Commission (1985-1994).
18 Mar
Mr President, you upset me last week Monday during the commencement ceremonials of the food security and agricultural mechanisation programme in Niger State. You said you would fix the farmer-herder crisis in three weeks off the cuff.
18 Mar
Close to 10 years after the gruesome abductions of 276 female students at Government Secondary School, Chibok, Borno State, Nigeria has become a notorious destination for crimes of mass abductions, especially of school going youngsters.
18 Mar
Nigeria gained independence from Britain in 1960, after several years of colonial rule. Expectedly, Nigeria adopted the parliamentary system of government being the one prevailing in Britain and many other commonwealth countries.

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