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In some climes, humanity and development mean everything. But in ours, politics and religion has replaced everything. Some of us have watched our steady decline from citizenship to partisanship and in this, one thing is constant – political interest. They don’t really care about us, do they? There is not regard for sanctity of flesh…

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Politically-motivated murders have been on the rise in the countdown to the 2015 general elections in Akwa Ibom, ETIM EKPIMAH reports The sobriquet of Akwa Ibom is “The Land of Promise.” Indeed, Akwa Ibom is the short form of Akwa Abasi Ibom, which means “God’s own state.” But recent political happenings have shown that the…

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Arrangements have been concluded for the internment of the Late Felix Onun Okoi, a retired Assistant Comptroller General of Immigration, who passed away early this month after a protracted illness. A release made available to www.calitown.com shows that there will be a service of songs in his Ekorinim, Calabar residence on Thursday, May 15, 2014,…

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When Sunday Oliseh was a young boy kicking a football around the dusty streets of Lagos, he never dreamed he would one day carry the hopes of 170 million people on the world’s biggest sporting stage. “As a child, the World Cup was something that was not for us but for others,” says the man…

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