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Emerging rift in UDA mirrors president's political career. As ODM deputy leader, Ruto was at the centre of the divisions that threatened to tear apart the party.

Vanguard News Insecurity: Say no to Southeast marginalization — Senator Anyanwu On By Chinonso Alozie, Owerri The Senator who represented the Imo East Senatorial district, Senator Samuel Anyanwu, yesterday said that Nigeria’s problems have continued to increase due to the relegation of the Southeast zone in the governance of the country. Senator Anyanwu’s statement made available to newsmen in Owerri, where he expressed his feelings regarding the incessant attacks on citizens of the coun...

Daily Monitor Saturday January 02 2021 Summary In the coming decades, scholars will have a wealth of material for their accounts of that pivotal year. However, when the people who lived through it look back on the timelines of their personal lives, many of them will find a gap in regard to the year 2020 Advertisement The year 2020 came to an end. The year has seeming more to authors of history books than to the writers of diaries. In the coming decades, scholars will have a wealth of material f...

2020: The Year That Was By Reuben Abati The year 2020 showed that leadership matters. We saw through the year, good and bad leaders in terms of how they managed the COVID-19 challenge. Good leaders help society. by Reuben Abati Dec 29, 2020 My favourite end-of-the-year quote, which I have shared with many others,  is the following passage from Chapter 3 of the inimitable Chinua Achebe’s Things Falls Apart, a novel of monumental, evergreen relevance, translated into over 50 languages, a pr...

2020: The Year That Was, By Reuben Abati  8 min read The drama of 2020 was that of man’s conflict with  a pathogen, and as we were taught, this is just the beginning of another end. Man’s place in creation is that of Sisyphus and Atlas. If anyone believes that our struggle is over, he or she misses the point. My favourite end-of-the-year quote, which I have shared with many others,  is the following passage from Chapter Three of the inimitable Chinua Achebe’s  Thing...

My favourite end-of-the-year quote, which I have shared with many others, is the following passage from Chapter 3 of the inimitable Chinua Achebe’s Things Falls Apart, a novel of monumental, evergreen relevance, translated into over 50 languages, a product of pure genius, a milestone in world literature. Achebe wrote: Advertisement “…The year that Okonkwo took eight hundred seed yams from Nwakibie was the worst year in living memory. Nothing happened at its proper time; it was either too ...