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Written by Elwin Mandowa

Founder and Managing editor of The Africa Global Village

Innocent Musing By Stanley Imhanruor Esq.

July 20, 2021 Elwin MandowaOpinion, sahara reporters

I recall how PDP as the ruling party at the centre prior to 2015, boasted to high heavens through its then national chairman – Mr. Vincent Ogbulafor that it will rule Nigeria for 60 unbroken years and in that misplaced euphoria PDP unleashed its majority in the National Assembly (NASS) to stifle and frustrate every single fundamental move to reform… Read More

OP-ED Opinions

Obi Cubana And The Oba Burial By Reuben Abati

July 20, 2021 Elwin MandowaOpinion, sahara reporters

The sociology of death and funerals is an important aspect of the African cosmogony. Parents pray that their children should outlive them in order to give them a befitting burial. They liken this to the same manner when fire dies out in the hearth, it is replaced by ashes, and when a banana tree withers, a sapling sprouts in its… Read More

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Nigerian Yoruba separatist leader arrested in Benin

July 20, 2021 Elwin Mandowaafrica, africafeeds, Benin, News, Nigeria, Separatist, Sunday Igboho, west africa, Yoruba

– – Nigeria’s Yoruba separatist leader Sunday Adeyemo has been arrested in Benin, after he was declared wanted for allegedly stockpiling arms. Mr Igboho was arrested by security forces at an airport in Benin’s capital, Cotonou. He was reportedly heading for Germany when he was arrested for repatriation. Nigeria’s Department of State Services (DSS) announced that it was pursuing Mr Igboho after… Read More

Africa Business World

Soros Economic Development Fund acquires Mologic Ltd

July 20, 2021 Elwin Mandowaafrica, africafeeds, Business, Health & Environment, Mologic, News, Soros Economic Development Fund

– – A group of philanthropic funds and investors led by the Soros Economic Development Fund (SEDF), with support from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, has announced the launch of Global Access Health (GAH), a social enterprise that will seek to expand access to affordable state-of-the-art medical technology through decentralized research, development, and manufacturing in and for the Global… Read More

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Pastor killed while trying to separate fighting couple

July 20, 2021 Elwin Mandowaafrica, africafeeds, Couple, Imo state, News, Nigeria, Pastor, Relationship & Lifestyle, west africa

– – A Nigerian pastor met his untimely death while trying to separate a couple engaged in a fight in Imo state. Police confirmed the death of the pastor Thompson Onyekwuru, who lives in in Owerri. The 62-year old pastor according to police was trying to prevent Obumneke Onyemechileuzo from stabbing his wife, Ogechi Onyemechileuzo, during a fight between the… Read More

OP-ED Opinions

How Taking Down The 1999 Nigeria Constitution Activates The Right To Self-Defence, And Democracy By Ndidi Uwechue

July 20, 2021 Elwin MandowaOpinion, sahara reporters

In general, communities get whatever they accept. Thus, those that tolerate corruption will have a corrupt society. While, those with zero tolerance for corruption, will get a civilised society. Sticking with Nigeria, that country is a failure because the people chose to accept a Unitary system that experts had told them would never work, and time has proved the experts… Read More

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Southern Cowards Vs. Northern Fools, By Bayo Oluwasanmi

July 19, 2021 Elwin MandowaOpinion, sahara reporters

I don’t believe in one Nigeria. I don’t believe in 2023 elections. I believe one Nigeria is not possible because it’s not doable. We are not one. We will never be. I believe Nigeria will never know peace, progress, and prosperity until and unless we go our our separate ways. A friend sent me a video of press conference of… Read More

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Those That ‘Sold’ Nnamdi Kanu By Ozodinukwe Okenwa

July 19, 2021 Elwin MandowaOpinion, sahara reporters

It is stale news that Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, the embattled fugitive leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) and the Eastern Security Network (ESN), was kidnapped in Nairobi, Kenya, and brought back to the country of his birth he derisively described as a ‘zoo’. His judicial odyssey would now have to restart in earnest (26 July) from where it… Read More

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The North Is Bleeding While The Elites Are Fighting For 2023 Presidency By Buhari Olanrewaju Ahmed

July 19, 2021 Elwin MandowaOpinion, sahara reporters

The rate of poverty in the Northern region of Nigeria is quite unfortunate despite the abundant resources and human power in the region. The political and leadership failure represent the fundamental menace that continue to trouble Northerners whose only joy is that one of their own is in charge. The instability of the Nigerian government has seriously damaged the educational… Read More

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Blasphemy Laws: Why We Muslims Need a Second Thought By Aliyu Bashir Limanci

July 19, 2021 Elwin MandowaOpinion, sahara reporters

Over a year after the arrest of Kano’s famous humanist, Mubarak Bala who has been arrested and detained without trial, Kano is at it again, but this time it is a popular Muslim cleric, Sheikh Abduljabbar Nasiru Kabara being accused and prosecuted for blasphemy. Unlike the mainstream Sunni scholars who defend everything attributed to the Prophet Muhammad, Sheikh Abduljabbar’s only… Read More