By Victor Enny Ebimimo LAGOS MARCH 15TH (NEWSRANGERS)-He lives in a different world. The world where discomfort, pains and sorrow envelope its entirety. The world where his closest pals are unwanted but stubborn houseflies; attracted by the stinking odour that permeates his immediate surroundings. He badly feels it; repulses it; yet he is helpless. Sometimes…
By Jerome-Mario Utomi LAGOS MARCH 12TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Communication, in the words of Grunig and Hunt (1984), is the biggest tool mankind has as a potential way of overcoming difficulties. But in most cases, we have it abandoned and embrace traveling the circumference of chaos before coming to access this powerful instrument. A fitting example of the…
LAGOS MARCH 10TH (NEWSRANGERS)-In 2015, serial presidential contestant, Muhammadu Buhari, emerged victorious through the instrumentality of enclave politics to which the north adroitly resorted in the face of plans by Goodluck Jonathan to ensconce himself in power for another four years. Had Jonathan succeeded, the north, barring any unforeseen circumstances, would have been out of…
ate By Jerome-Mario Utomi. LAGOS MARCH 6TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Looking at the ripple reactions that greeted the hate speech bill currently before the Nigerian senate; one will but agree with the words of John F. Kennedy, that ‘a man who creates power makes an indispensable contribution to the nation’s greatness. But the man who questions power make…
By Jerome-Mario Utomi. LAGOS FEBRUARY 20TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Eko Convention Centre, Lagos, venue of the meeting was lavishly decorated to impress, and it did impressed. The participants were corporately kitted; men and women alike. All seated in such a manner that could be mistaken for, fresh law graduates being called to the Nigerian Bar or shareholders…
By Kevin Bloom LAGOS FEBRUARY 15TH (NEWSRANGERS)-In March 2009, less than two months before Jacob Zuma assumed office as the fourth President of post-apartheid South Africa, the Dalai Lama’s visa application to enter the country was denied. The Tibetan spiritual leader had been scheduled to attend a peace conference in Johannesburg, on the invitation of…
By Jerome-Mario Utomi LAGOS FEBRUARY 5TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Truth, in the words of Thomas Aquinas, is the agreement of what is in the mind with what is on the lips. Considering this remark in relation to the truth as told by the former President, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo in his memo to President Buhari, and the ripple reactions…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 5TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Former military President, General Ibrahim Babangida, fondly called the evil genius, the Maradona, IBB because of his cunning ways has started his antics again in Nigeria political arena. Within a timeline of four hours on Sunday, he issued a statement, disowned it and then reversed to embrace the initial statement. Babangida was…