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OPINION: A CLARION CALL - UBONG DAVID

By Ubong David Within two weeks of his inauguration as the president of Nigeria, Muhammadu Buhari has received bashing from many Nigerians especially from the camp of the new opposition party which am a strong member, the Peoples Democratic Party. Many political activists has emerged and more critics has resurface the social media. This is much expected as I earlier submitted due to what the former opposition party, the All Progressive Congress did to PDP led administration of President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan. When President Muhammadu Buhari was finally announced as the winner of the March 28 presidential election, thousand of PDP members whose present are dominant on social media also promised to retaliate. What we are experiencing in the first two weeks of President Muhammadu Buhari administration is a fulfillment of that promise and Nigerian should not be surprise on this development. MY OBSERVATION While many political activists has emerged, a pointer to the ...

CHIBOK GIRLS AND THE SIGNIFICANCE OF MALALA;S VISIT TO NIGERIA

Chibok Girls And The Significance Of Malala's Visit To Nigeria By  Inibehe Effiong Contrary to the pessimistic and cynical views expressed by some Nigerians on the practical relevance and functional usefulness of the very historic visit to Nigeria by Malala Yousafzai, the home truth is that the struggle for the release of the over 200 Chibok girls from the excruciating captivity of Boko Haram has taken a new dimension. Born on 12 July, 1997, Malala Yousafzai, a spirited Pakistani teenager is a school pupil and education activist from the town of Mingora in the Swat District of Pakistan's northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province. In the afternoon of Tuesday, 9 October, 2012, Malala had boarded her school bus when a gunman asked for Malala by name, pointed a Colt 45 at her and fired three shots, she survived. Her offence was defying the Taliban's ban on girls from attending school. That singular incident altered the status of Malala from a local Pakistani school ...