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519			<a href="../../../nigeria-at-63-time-to-renew-our-faith-in-our-country/">Nigeria at 63: Time to renew our faith in our country</a>
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522	<span class="tie-date"><i class="fa fa-clock-o"></i>October 1, 2023</span>	
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531			<p>By Samson R. Osagie Ph.d Evidently, our nation is not doing well at all. No one should pretend about it. We have lost a lot of ground. We have missed so many opportunities and we have caused all these calamities for ourselves either by our choices, actions, or inaction. We have reached a point in our nation’s history when we &hellip;</p>
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538			<a href="../../../curbing-the-naicom-cartel-and-its-cut-throat-motor-insurance/">Curbing The NAICOM Cartel And Its Cut-Throat Motor Insurance</a>
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541	<span class="tie-date"><i class="fa fa-clock-o"></i>April 27, 2023</span>	
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550			<p>By Felix Oboagwina As last year drew to a close, the 58 insurance firms in Nigeria under the umbrella of the National Insurance Commission (NAICOM) served notice that minimum Third-Party subscription for motor vehicles would no longer cost N5,000 but N15,000 beginning from this New Year. Some years ago, they charged N1,000 as the minimum payable on motor insurance. Contrast with &hellip;</p>
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569			<p>By Felix Oboagwina Felix, what is happening? Will you guys continue to sleep and allow this man to ride roughshod over Afenifere once again?</p>
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579	<span class="tie-date"><i class="fa fa-clock-o"></i>September 14, 2022</span>	
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588			<p>By Andrew A. Erakhrumen As it stands today, except a new reality emerges, the renegotiation of the 2009 agreement between the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) and the Federal Government of Nigeria (FGN) has been stalled by FGN. As a quick background: this agreement was originally due for renegotiation in 2012 but delayed, through FGN’s antics, till 2017 when &hellip;</p>
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598	<span class="tie-date"><i class="fa fa-clock-o"></i>July 2, 2022</span>	
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607			<p>By Andrew A. Erakhrumen Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has been on roll-over strikes. The current one is for twelve weeks from the 9th of May, 2022. It resulted from ASUU’s industrial dispute with the Federal Government of Nigeria (FGN). In line with Nigeria’s subsisting labour laws, the Minister of Labour and Employment (MoL&E) – Chris Ngige – intervened! &hellip;</p>
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626			<p>By Felix Oboagwina Today in much of Nigeria’s South-East, no thanks to a rash of arsons and killings blamed on those now labelled as &#8220;unknown gunmen, (UGM)&#8221; the falcon can no longer hear the falconer and palpable anarchy bestrides the land. The raging cacophony broke out after the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) led some youths into the forests of &hellip;</p>
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636	<span class="tie-date"><i class="fa fa-clock-o"></i>May 21, 2022</span>	
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645			<p>By Felix Oboagwina Chief Tayo Soyode’s name may ring only a minimal bell in national politics outside the Progressives and South-West circles. However, this Marine Engineer-trained Lagosian is father and grandfather to seeds whose veins flow with the blood of two political giants. As son-in-law to Chief Obafemi Awolowo, Soyode has his children carrying the blueblood of the great man. &hellip;</p>
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652			<a href="../../../christianity-africa-and-beyond/">Christianity, Africa and Beyond</a>
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654		<p class="post-meta">
655	<span class="tie-date"><i class="fa fa-clock-o"></i>April 14, 2022</span>	
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664			<p>By Pastor Isaac Ademoroti Christianity is 2000 years old. The whole faith began when Jesus Christ, the Son of the living God, gave His life as a ransom for mankind’s salvation. It was for the restoration of the relationship between Man and God. You will probably recall that the relationship between God and humans went sour in the Garden of &hellip;</p>
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683			<p>By Felix Oboagwina Two souls stood in the presence of their Maker in the beforelife, to hear what destinies they should follow on earth. &#8220;Each of you will live illustrious lives in one and the same Land,&#8221; they were told. &#8220;Each of you will marry your wives and bear a suitable cluster of children. &#8220;Each of you will bury children &hellip;</p>
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693	<span class="tie-date"><i class="fa fa-clock-o"></i>April 4, 2022</span>	
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702			<p>By Andrew A. Erakhrumen &#8220;An army marches on its stomach&#8221; We have come full circle, again! It is no more news, unfortunately, that after efforts by members of Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) at preventing industrial dispute with government were frustrated, they reluctantly activated their suspended strike, with a four-week roll-over strike, on the 14th of February, 2022 after &hellip;</p>
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