NDDC: The gift that keeps giving
Festus Eriye If ever there was a contest, the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) would win the ‘most generous parastatal’...
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Wednesday, July 22, 2020
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A comedy of scandals
By Festus Eriye It's been a double - even triple - whammy of scandals for the Muhammadu Buhari administration that...
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The Coronavirus diaries (14)
Festus Eriye How quickly an expression becomes hackneyed! For months people have spoken of a ‘new normal’ as it...
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Festus ERIYE WHAT is it about the novel coronavirus that makes it shameful? Many who come down with it...
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By Festus Eriye Through the ages, science and religion have largely travelled different roads: one works with evidence as a...
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Festus Eriye WHEN First Lady Aisha Buhari fired off an unusual late night tweet, you knew there was trouble...
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Festus Eriye Even a deadly virus has its uses. This week, Coronavirus found political application in the raging crisis within...
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Festus Eriye The Bible talks about the ‘noisome pestilence’ – meaning a disease offensive to the senses, obnoxious or objectionable....
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Festus Eriye IT is not called novel for nothing. Many months after it was identified in Wuhan, China,...
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Festus Eriye The total number of confirmed coronavirus infections in Nigeria is within touching distance of 5,000 with fatalities just...
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FESTUS ERIYE THE government envisaged a ‘gradual easing’ of the lockdown: the people executed a chaotic, mass breakout from...
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Festus Eriye How times have changed! It wasn’t too long ago that President Muhammadu Buhari’s spokesman was defending his silence...
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Clash of two creators
By Dapo Thomas We are fortunate to be living witnesses to an epochal battle between two creators: the “supernatural...
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Festus Eriye TWO men were bragging about who had the better lawyer. One said: “My lawyer hardly ever loses...
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Festus Eriye As the initial 14-day lockdown ordered by President Muhammadu Buhari in Lagos, Ogun and Abuja, drew to a...
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