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Sunday, June 2nd, 2013

By Tochukwu Ezukanma | Lagos, Nigeria | June 2, 2012 – Peter Viereck once defined barbarism as “blindness to the standards of conduct which civilization has over eon imposed on human nature”. Civilization is less about scientific inventions and technological advancement and their concomitant enhancement of the quality of life for the generality of humanity. [...]
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Sunday, May 26th, 2013

By Tochukwu Ezukanma / Lagos, Nigeria / May 26, 2013 – In theory, Nigerian institutions, like the Church and government agencies, are motivated by the loftiest ideals. Usually, they have mottoes: pithy and poetic expressions defining their guiding principles and objectives. But due to the moral and ethical collapse of the Nigerian society, occasioned by [...]
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Wednesday, May 15th, 2013

By Tochukwu Ezukanma | Lagos, Nigeria | May 15, 2013 – Members of a terrorist gang that has targeted and bombed civilian centers; murdering and maiming the innocent in droves deserve severe punishment. Therefore the prospect of an amnesty for Boko Haram rankles and boggles the mind. In its gross unfairness, it disregards the comeuppance [...]
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Tuesday, April 16th, 2013

By Tochukwu Ezukanma | Laghos, Nigeria | April 16, 2013 – Undoubtedly, Boko Haram is a terrorist organization. It is indiscriminately striking at civilian centers, wantonly murdering and maiming the innocent and the defenseless. Its bomb laden, suicidal operatives have bombed places as innocuous as bus stations and sanctuaries as inviolable as the church. It [...]
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Thursday, April 4th, 2013

By Tochukwu Ezukanma / Lagos, Nigeria / April 4, 2013 -A female friend of mine is a born again Christian. Routinely, she preached the bible to me and invited me to different Christian crusades. One day, I visited her at her furniture showroom. I was appalled by how this “Christian” friend of mine treated her [...]
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Thursday, March 21st, 2013

By Tochukwu Ezukanma | Lagos, Nigeria | March 21, 2013 – The German theologian, Prof. Motlman, rightly stated that “it is not the idealistic concept of none violence that is in consonant with the Gospel, but a responsible action of love”. It is a misunderstanding of the Christian Gospel of nonviolence for a man to [...]
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Friday, March 8th, 2013

By Tochukwu Ezukanma / Lagos, Nigeria / March 8, 2013 – One of the many things that that tireless nonconformist, Fela Anikulapo Kuti, did for Nigerian music was to change it from merely a medium for praising and ingratiating the rich and mouthing romantic platitudes to a medium for mass enlightenment and crusading against bad [...]
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Thursday, February 21st, 2013

By Tochukwu Ezukanma / Lagos, Nigeria / Feb. 22, 2013 – Long ago, in my village church, an elderly woman was asked to pray. In her prayer, she strayed from the liturgical platitudes that mark such church prayers, and delved into politics. Obviously enraged by the then recent coup that overthrew the government of Shehu [...]
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Thursday, February 7th, 2013

By Tochukwu Ezukanma / Lagos, Nigeria / Feb. 7, 2013 – A city is not just a collection of buildings, streets and public spaces arranged by architectural, engineering and urban planning standards. It encapsulates and expresses the totality of a people’s way of life. Therefore, Nigerian cities are invariably expressing the totality of the Nigerian [...]
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Thursday, January 24th, 2013

By Tochukwu Ezukanma | Lagos, Nigeria | Jan. 24, 2013 – A written constitution is not a prerequisite for democracy. Not surprisingly, some flourishing democracies have no written constitution and some failed democracies had some wonderfully crafted constitutions. Nigeria has had a number of well written constitutions. Lamentably, none of them has worked well. Still, [...]