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Edo, Governors, Headlines, Imo, Prince Charles Dickson, Rivers, State News
Sunday, October 20th, 2013
Three Governors – Adams Oshiomhole of Edo, Rochas Okorocha of Imo and Rotimi Amechi of Rivers – did not attend the South-East/South-South governors meeting held on Sunday in Enugu. The meeting was attended by eight of the 11 governors in the two geo-political zones. Governors who attended the meeting include Theodore Orji of Abia; […]
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Sunday, July 7th, 2013
By Prince Charles Dickson | Jos, Nigeria | July 7, 2013 – A ninth-grade teacher wanted to demonstrate the evils of liquor to his young students. He produced a glass of water, a glass of vodka, and two worms. “Now class, observe closely,” he said as he dropped one of the worms into the glass […]
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Articles, Columnists, NNP Columnists, Prince Charles Dickson, Women Politics
Saturday, June 29th, 2013
By Prince Charles Dickson | Jos, NIgeria | June 28, 2013 – The greatest lesson in life is to know that sometimes even fools are right—Winston Churchill Early this year, I was with Ngozi Iweala and she spoke glowing on Nigeria’s economy, gdp and all those terms. I nodded and smiled. I recalled our meeting […]
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Wednesday, June 19th, 2013
By Prince Charles Dickson | Jos, Nigeria | June 19, 2013 – Ndi igbos say “Nwunye anyi, nwunye anyi”: ka ndeli bia ka anyi mara onye o bu nwunye ya.[“Our wife, our wife”: come midnight and we will know whose wife she really is.] This week my admonition bothers on one of those many topics […]
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Sunday, May 26th, 2013
By Prince Charles Dickson / Jos, Nigeria / May 26, 2013 – The Edos say “Ehemwen wÿÿ iren te gua so ihuan, ren te vbe gua ku, sokpan ukpÿ iye-ÿkhÿkhÿ ÿre ÿ ma gie iren ku iku iren vbe avan”. A cockroach knows how to sing and dance, but it is the hen who prevents […]
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Tuesday, April 23rd, 2013
By Prince Charles Dickson /There is no disappearing trick better than the availability of a dense forest to disappear into; there is no sacrifice more efficacious than having many people on one’s side; there is no “The gods have elevated me” that is higher than the back of a horse. During the week”…Former […]
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Tuesday, April 9th, 2013
By Prince Charles Dickson / Jos, Nigeria / April 9, 2013 – There is no manner of death that is inconvenient for the chicken.(One is game for whatever propositions might be made to one). The phrase ‘oga at the top’, some forthnight went virile. We all know how the NSDC Lagos state commandant and ‘Channels […]
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Monday, February 25th, 2013
By Prince Charles Dickson | Jos, Nigeria | Feb. 25, 2013 – Ronald Reagan once said “Government is like a baby, an alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other end”. And I add a big head that thinks it knows it all and then treat […]
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Friday, February 1st, 2013
By Prince Charles Dickson / Jos, Nigeria / Feb. 1, 2013 – It has lately been called the bribe-for-job scandal, most people are talking about it like it is new but really is it new, or is it a case of business gone sour, business as usual or simply put, it is escalating? Well, let […]
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Sunday, January 13th, 2013
By Prince Charles Dickson | Jos, Nigeria | Jan. 13, 2013 – Fire-fire in our country-country, we need plenty water to quench the fire–Daddy Showkey. Criminal Minds is an American police procedural television program. The series follows a team of profilers from the FBI’s Behavioral Analysis Unit (BAU) based in Quantico, Virginia. The BAU is […]