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Characters of Vehicle Identification Number
The VIN, Vehicle Identification Number, is the unique ID – like your fingerprint is unique to you – of a vehicle that specifically identifies a particular vehicle from other vehicles made by its...
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When Muhammed Ali hosted our Chuka Momah
Although it was way back in 1984 that Chuka Momah (and if you don’t know who he is, you will shortly) visited “the greatest” – Muhammed Ali – that encounter is one to relish for one’s lifetime. We are...
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Job creators wanted … job seekers need not apply! (II)
The Nigerian Civil War had long ended before my father found his way home. I had no memories of him and he looked nothing like the photos of him around the house. My mother said he was my father. I...
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Divorce is not the end…
One thing that I actually want anyone that has had a failed marriage to do is to begin to see things from a positive angle. I mean when a door closes on a relationship, it’s because it’s destined to...
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State governors and His Excellency’s wrath
President Goodluck Jonathan is obviously not happy with some state governors, especially those of them who derive pleasure in criticising him or his administration. Recent events have shown that he has...
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A note for the in-coming CBN governor
While the debate about the legality or otherwise of the suspension of the Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, Mallam Sanusi Lamido Sanusi, is still raging on several fronts including the judicial...
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What do sensors do in an automobile?
Modern vehicles are literally inundated with sensors. There’s almost no area of a modern vehicle that’s not infused with a sensor. It’s then important to ask: What are sensors? What do they do? What...
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Land use in Nigeria (1)
I am sure if a survey were taken, land matters would form the bulk of adjudicated cases under both customary and statutory judicial processes. Land matters have pitted families against each other for...
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Suggestions to Boko Haram
Whatever happened at the Department of State Services last week, it is another indication that the Boko Haram menace has considerable range and resilience. But it should also be an indication to the...
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Dealing with estranged family members
Family quarrels are bitter things…They’re not like aches or wounds, they’re more like splits in the skin that won’t heal because there’s not enough material – F. Scott Fitzgerald Christmas and possibly...
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Oil companies, exploitation, and unemployment
Alfred Okoigun is my friend, but more importantly he is a Nigerian to be proud of. He is the Group Managing Director of ARCO, an oil company he started about 34 years ago and which has from a couple of...
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Oil companies, exploitation, and unemployment
Alfred Okoigun is my friend, but more importantly he is a Nigerian to be proud of. He is the Group Managing Director of ARCO, an oil company he started about 34 years ago and which has from a couple of...
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Boko Haram: Are we there yet?
If you have ever driven kids on a long trip, the question, “Are we there yet?” probably rings in your ears. It is so standard and recurrent that Hollywood made it the title of a movie that has at least...
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Shalamar: The use of a music group name
A few weeks ago, I was going through some entertainment news and found out that Jody Watley now owns the trademark for Shalamar. Some of you reading this may be too young to know about Jody Watley and...
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Ministers: Did the President have his way?
The controversy surrounding the delayed announcement of cabinet ministers by President Muhammadu Buhari was further exacerbated by the names that eventually made the list. To say that most commentators...
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It is not always by fighting…
Her story kind of made me begin to appreciate (for the umpteenth time) the set of people that I refer to as ‘beautiful souls.’ I caught up with a senior friend (who visited from the United Kingdom)...
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Girls are taking over the United Nations, whither Nigerian girls?
To start with, I’d like to thank the Teachers Registration Council of Nigeria who has decided to prosecute teachers who sexually harass students. On Friday, October 9, girls from all over gathered at...
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Singing Myths: True or false? (IV)
8. You need to “reach high up” to sing high notes: Nothing could be further from the truth. Your vocal chords are a set of horizontal muscles that zip and unzip as you move through your vocal range....
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When ex-leaders, governors gathered
President Muhammadu Buhari on Wednesday presided over his first Council of State meeting since he was inaugurated on May 29. The council has as members the Vice President; all living former presidents...
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Dear Nnamdi Kanu, non-violence is the only way to Biafra
My brother, kekwanu? I don’t know if it is politically correct to congratulate you on your release from detention. But now that you are out, it is proper to take into consideration that “peaceful...
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