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Saturday, January 5th, 2013
By Prince Charles Dickson / NNP / Jan. 5, 2012 – The antics of the monkey will eventually be his undoing when he jumps from one tree to another playfully until he falls to his death. Just looking at pictures of Jonathan’s visit to Kogi state governor at a private hospital in Abuja set me […]
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Sunday, December 23rd, 2012
By Prince Charles Dickson / Jos, Nigeria / Dec. 23, 2012 – “Facts are stubborn things…” John Adams During the week, I sent out the above question across various platforms in and out of Nigeria, we discussed it in various forums with friends and ‘foes’ of Nigeria. I have chosen to share excerpts from the […]
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Friday, December 21st, 2012
By Prince Charles Dickson | Jos, Nigeria | Dec. 21, 2012 | The lazy person eats the products of his native wisdom; only a fool does not know what devious way will be fruitful. (If one lacks industry, one had better be resourceful.) Person of the Year (formerly Man of the Year) is an annual […]
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Friday, December 14th, 2012
By Prince Charles Dickson | Jos, Nigeria | Dec. 14, 2012 – A woman has a child by you and you still say you do not see her inside “know her mind”; would you have her expose her intestines? Today, my admonition is targeted at the people of Nigeria…when I say we, let me use […]
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Sunday, November 11th, 2012
By Prince Charles Dickson | Jos, Nigeria | Nov. 11, 2012 | To criticize one’s country is to do it a service and pay it a compliment. It is a service because it may spur the country to do better than it is doing; it is a compliment because it evidences a belief that the […]
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Wednesday, October 31st, 2012
By Prince Charles Dickson | Jos, Nigeria | Oct. 31, 2012 – We grab a dog with the hands and it escapes; thereafter we beckon it with two fingers. (If both hands cannot detain a dog, two fingers from a distance will not bring it to where it escaped from.) As a public commentator, I […]
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Wednesday, October 24th, 2012
By Prince Charles Dickson | Jos, Nigeria | Oct. 24, 2012 – Aki gbele gba ofa lailo ogun–meaning, one does not sit at home, not go to war and yet be shot with an arrow. As usual there’s been little to cheer within the last week. I was sure that my admonition was going to […]
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Thursday, October 18th, 2012
By Prince Charles Dickson | Jos, Nigeria | October 18, 2012 – We the willing led by the unknowing are doing the impossible for the ungrateful. We have done so much for so long with so little we are now qualified to do anything with nothing. A lot has happened in our beloved nation in […]
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Thursday, October 4th, 2012
By Prince Charles Dickson | Jos, Nigeria | Oct. 4, 2012 – So, who do we blame, and really is it a blame game or the scary realisation that we are just a nation run on auto-pilot, one for which after 52 years, we are still plagued largely by the same problems? We are 52, […]
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Friday, September 21st, 2012
By Prince Charles Dickson | Jos, Nigeria | Sept. 21, 2012 – ‘Let us separate quarrel before we separate fight’ I start this admonition with the critics anthem, one that has always inspired me. It is by H.G. Wells and he says we are going to write about it all. We are going to write […]