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ENDSARS CAMPAIGN: WHY THE GOVERNMENT MUST ENSURE SAFETY OF PROTESTERS By: Ben Onyekelu Olisa

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  INTRODUCTION  Nigeria, according to Transparency International has the worst Police force in the world; albeit the NPF and Federal Government had baselessly debunked the obvious true report. This glory she enjoys with the tag of poverty capital of the world. Seventy percent of the Nigerian population has no access to clean water, while 27.1 % of her total populace is unemployed with underemployment pecked at 28.6 %. What this means is that 21.7 million Nigerians are unemployed. When this two are summed up, one gets 55.7 % unemployment and underemployment; that's over 50% of the Nigerian populace. With this, an average Nigerian hardly sees a future in the nation. According to trading economy statistics, over 36% of Nigerian Youths are unemployed. A few that secured employment are poorly remunerated. In the public sector, it's a different ball game as an industrial strike is as frequent as breakfast in the tables of various professions. A clear case is that of ASUU that has b...

Federal Ministry Of Stomach Infrastructure

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  Have you ever had a power Game with anyone in secondary school, especially a senior? I had a silent one with a House Captain when I was minister for state in the Federal Ministry Of Stomach Infrastructure.  I assume everyone who lived in boarding house understands how significant and undeniably vital the Refectory is. Back in my secondary school, I was Disciplinarian, and most importantly, a Refectorian (Refectory prefect). We decided then how Students eat and what they won't eat. In other words, we were very powerful Ministers of stomach infrastructure, and in the words of Harlod lasswel, we decided who get What, When and How. Only a political juggernaut understands how Vital this theory is in game of power. In the Federal Ministry Of Stomach Infrastructure, with headquarters at the refectory and branches at School Kitchen and Stores, you dare not pick at any of our workers. In my school, they were one of the best in their classes in terms of brilliant, neatness and outstan...

POEM: JOHNSON MONSTERS

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The Call Of Nature: Oblivion

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Part of A Forsaken History: The Igbo Custom of Ori Na Ndu Ceremony/Rite. By Ben Onyekelu Olisa

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Every race has its culture, which should be remembered, practiced and also stand in as law if they are not in conflict with natural justice, equity and good conscience. Vide Evidence Act (2011) Section 18 (3). Custom means the established or common usage of a particular people. Vide Prof. Osita Nnamani Ogbu, 2013. It has also been defined per Ndoma-Egba, J.C. A in Aku v. Ahaneku as: "The unrecorded tradition and history of the people which has grown with the growth of the people to stability and become an intrinsic part of their culture" In the light of the forgoing, Ori Na Ndu is an Igbo Custom which has grown with the growth of the people. I was working on a research topic I intend to publish in a magazine and needed many facts to achieve some targets. It's on women in precolonial Nigeria: Igbo and Hausa case study.  It could intrigue the reader to know that oral history lives with elderly people. I got much from my grandmother, who although in her late 7...

Something Breaks The Man In Us.

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Credit: Joshua Miels One is always at liberty, even without much consternation to disagree with some truth. But I have come to realize it; the frailty of human nature is highly inseparable from the truth about Male also. When I was younger, like Ten years ago, my father always urged me not to cry when something happened to me. On a day that I gave in to sickness and was taken to a local medicine house to be healed of Ntutu. (Ntutu is a spiritual pin perceived evil men send into someone's body. While it rusted, the person heads close to the grave). The humble medicine man made use of method that is uncommon and unfathomed; he used teeth in removing the spiritual pin. He would murmur and apply some cream on the skin of his patients and used teeth to bit the hell out of the persons. Mostly, women cried more than men that day. The lady before me cried uncontrollably, and I was forced to look pity on her. My father, a handsome young man, drew me closer in-between his thighs an...

CORONA VIRUS PANDEMIC, LIMITATIONS ON RIGHT TO FREEDOM OF ASSOCIATION, RIGHT TO FREEDOM OF MOVEMENT BY THE GOVERNMENT, A CRITICAL APPRAISAL. By AGU MOSES

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People across the world are currently facing an unprecedented global health emergency due to the outbreak of COVID-19. The recent outbreak began in Wuhan, a city in the Hubei province of China. Reports of the first COVID-19 cases started in December 2019. Coronaviruses are common in certain species of animals, such as cattle and camels. Although the transmission of coronaviruses from animals to humans is rare, this new strain likely came from bats, though one study suggests pangolins may be the origin. However, it remains unclear exactly how the virus first spread to humans. Some reports trace the earliest cases back to a seafood and animal market in Wuhan. It may have been from here that SARS-CoV-2 started to spread to humans. SARS-CoV-2 spreads from person to person through close communities. When people with COVID-19 breathe out or cough, they expel tiny droplets that contain the virus. These droplets can enter the mouth or nose of someone without the virus, causing an in...