In recent past, many of our young Nigerians have died or have been hospitalised due to colon cancer. We then ask the question, why? Nobody likes to talk about bowel movements or cancer and nobody likes to get a colonoscopy, but according to the American Cancer Society, “Colorectal cancer is the third most commonly diagnosed …
We stand in the shadow of one of the darkest chapters of our Nation’s history surrounded by the artefacts and monuments to a terrible conflict. This is neither the time nor the place for rehashing the polemics of justification and recrimination, and claims and counterclaims about the remote and immediate causes of the war. Many …
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The President’s Taxes Doug Mills/The New York Times Long-Concealed Records Show Trump’s Chronic Losses and Years of Tax Avoidance The Times obtained Donald Trump’s tax information extending over more than two decades, revealing struggling properties, vast write-offs, an audit battle and hundreds of millions in debt coming due. Donald J. Trump paid $750 in federal …
The deaths of more than a million people in Nigeria as a result of the brutal civil war which ended exactly 50 years ago are a scar on the nation's history. For most Nigerians, the war over the breakaway state of Biafra is generally regarded as an unfortunate episode best forgotten, but for the Igbo …
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