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The Poverty of Activism in Nigeria by Nengak Daniel

In 2004, Joshua Dariye jumped bail in the UK and “illegally and clandestinely found his way back to Nigeria”. In 2005, DSP Alamieyeseigha jumped bail fleeing the United Kingdom allegedly disguised as a woman and carrying a fake passport…

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At the Instance of Instagram

Who took the first selfie? The term ‘selfie’ is credited to one Nathan Hope who first reportedly used the word in 2002. Instagram also deserves some form of credit for making ‘selfies’ a fad in the world today. Already, the word has been introduced as a new word in the Oxford…

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The Youth — An Urban Migratory Species by Nengak Daniel

I once visited a church in a small village where the moderator apologised that the Youth Fellowship would not sing that day because “all of them have gone to the city”. Today I sit to write this special article commemorating the 2013…

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Young People, Social Media and Safer Sex

Today marks Worlds AIDS Day; though Nigeria’s HIV prevalence rate among 15–49 years adults being at about 3.4% — one of the highest in the world. Many parents do not like to discuss sex with their children. It is not a subject they readily warm up to. In most…

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Reconciling Democracy and Justice; The Great Kenyan Dilemma by Nengak Daniel

There is something wrong with the sentence “our President is a fugitive”. It is grammatically and semantically correct (I hope). But it just doesn’t sound right, but it is sadly true especially if…

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17 Years After Beijing: A Tale of 2 Women

As a student at the university a couple of years back, I never ceased to inaudibly ruminate over the choice of ladies to always vie for the vice presidency of respective students’ bodies. It was mostly unfashionable to have a guy attempt this. Only in few…

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What Nigerian students owe this country!

There is nothing wrong with a student who loves to have his ears plugged whilst enjoying the latest hit music on his phone. It only becomes a concern if that is all he listens to a great deal of the time when he equally had the option of recording lectures…

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Don’t Ignore this Revolution!

In 2006, I sat down with a friend at a café. It took me weeks to have him schedule time to grant me audience for one hour. Back then, I sensed something was revving up to shake the technological space. I was not sure of what it was but it was obvious that things were happening…

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LETTER WRITING: Lost to the New Media Age

‘Hope you are doing fine. If so, doxology’. My classmate, Yetunde, had this as her favourite introductory line when writing a letter. Not until then, I never knew the meaning of doxology. I recently reminiscence about the past with a friend; in the course…

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Counting under the Shadows of Death by Nengak Daniel

In the past 2 weeks, I have written about numbers. First I wrote about the number of the dead in Nigeria and then about the numbers in development indexes. This week, I will return to counting the dead in Nigeria; but I would first like…

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