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IBB: If you want it that bad… |
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Tuesday with Abdulazeez Abdullahi
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08036266804 No one is in doubt that former President Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida has for long been nursing the ambition of ruling this country again after his hasty departure from office in 1993 but many however doubt whether he has the courage to go through the rigours of dirty politicking that will see him realize his ambition. As he did in the run up to the 2007elections, the former military turned civilian ruler has declared his intention to contest the presidential elections most likely under the umbrella of the ruling Peoples Democratic Party of which he has been a card carrying member since 2006.
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Crises in Education: Who is to blame? |
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GUEST COLUMNIST with Adamu Muh’d Usman 
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“Education makes a people easy to lead, but difficult to drive: easy to govern, but impossible to enslave.” – Peter Brougham “It is a greater work to educate a child, in the true and larger sense of the word, than to rule a state.” – William Ellery Channing
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Dogo Na Hauwa as metaphor |
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For the Masses By Rufa’i Ibrahim
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Dogo Na Hauwa was, until the events of Marchj 7, 2010, a peaceful and sleepy village that you probably couldn’t find even on an enlarged map of the Plateau. Tucked near Du village on the outskirts of Bukuru in Jos South, Dogo Na Hauwa was originally a tin-mine settlement. Its romantic Hausa name was evidence that its founder and first settlers were Hausa. Those who know the history of this little village of only a few hundred people say that up to 1963,
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We get what we wish for ourselves |
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For the Masses By Rufa’i Ibrahim
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For most of his now over 40 years as his country’s leader, Lybia’s Gaddafi has been the favourite whipping boy of the West, and if not a few African countries too. The ostensible reason for this is the man’s perception in the West as the “sponsor of terrorism”, and in Africa as a meddlesome leader who fuels rebellion against constituted authorities.
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Will Plateau ever hit the brakes? |
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MUSINGS By Garba Shehu
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I see two dilemmas facing Plateau, a state that has been convulsed with tribalism and hate leading to inter-communal violence under the watch, and in some proven cases, with the complicity of its political leadership.
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