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By Paul Mumeh

“... The heavens themselves blaze forth the death of princes” (Shakespeare Julius Caesar 1599). Tunde Jonathan Owoicho Mark’s death fits into the latter.

Arguably, the death of Tunde Mark, son of the 12th President of the Nigerian Senate, Senator David Bonaventure Mark, last week Friday, was akin to more than a thousand that fell down in a pogrom.

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By Azu Ishiekwene

In a widely shared story last week, The Economist likened the political carnage in Britain to the situation in Italy in the 1940s. Italy was a major theatre of the First World War at the end of which the country was in ruins.

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By Bolanle Bolawole

As 2023 beckons and the presidential candidates rev up their hustings across the country’s political landscape, the metamorphosis of many of the finest and best of the country’s journalism and legal professions connected with the campaigns beggars belief!

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By Bolanle Bolawole

Mrs. Aisha Buhari, wife of the president, retired Major-General Muhammadu Buhari, has been quoted as saying she did not know whether or not her husband met the expectations of Nigerians.

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By Bola Bolawole

The sore – and sour - point in relations between the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) and the Government of Nigeria is the funding of the public university system. ASUU considers the funding made available by the government as paltry and inadequate – and this has been so over the years; indeed, for decades and for time immemorial.

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By Muyiwa Adetiba

When Asiwaju Bola Tinubu made that famous ‘emilokan’ remark as part of a rambling, incoherent speech, it was to a small audience in Ogun State. But the import of that remark reverberated throughout the country within hours. It was in that speech that he referred to a sitting Governor as ‘eleyi’ meaning ‘this one’ literally in Yoruba.

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