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Stand in Prayer and Not in Judgment

By on July 27, 2007

Students who graduate from Covenant University in Nigeria must not only fulfill the academic requirements of achieving the optimum level of the grade point average, they also need to…

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The Changing of Guard in Nigeria

By on May 29, 2007

Our dearly beloved President Olusegun Obasanjo leaves office today handing over to Musa Yar’Adua on the same date eight years ago when he was sworn in as President of…

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In a Land of Plenty

By on March 7, 2007

© Akintunde AkinleyeThe photo above by Akintunde Akinleye of Nigeria was one of the winners of the 2006 PhotoShare* Photo Contest. The description of the photo by the contest…

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And then there was Nollywood.

By on February 1, 2007

Time was when Iweka Road was just another street in Onitsha as was Ebinpejo Lane in Idumota, Lagos…most of the home-made Nigerian entertainment that I knew of came from…

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Lagos…still home

By on January 22, 2007

While I have not been back to Lagos for almost a decade now, I try to keep abreast of what is happening in town a number of ways -like…