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BY Chris Tony Akhabue Truth is like surgery. It hurts a great deal. Yet, it has the capacity to heal wounds.   Wounds of those willing to accept and administer it's healing potencies. In the words of a famous French Writer, feminist and political activist, Simone De Beauvoir, she said and I quote, " the oppressor would not have been so strong, bold and powerful  if he did not have accomplices among the oppressed" The above line aptly and succinctly, without ambiguities, logically and didactivelly illustrates our present quagmaric circumstance as a Nation in dire need of result oriented remedies. Banditory and kidnapping for random collection have become the most pervasive and intractable violent crime against humanity in Nigeria today. There is hardly a day passes without  ugly reports of kidnappings and killings in and around the Country. It used to be, before now, a very rare occurrence to read on the pages of  newspaper or seen on tele...

By Chris Tony Akhabue Edo State deputy governor, Philip Shaibu, yesterday, called on President Muhammadu Buhari to use the father's Day celebration to unify the country and save it from further disintegration. He made the call while serving as the Chief Man Servant at the St. Paul Catholic Church, airport road Benin to mark the Father's Day celebration. Shaibu said that when the president and other state governors act as fathers in their respective states, by making the right policies, speaking the right words, it would engender peace, unity and growth and the nation at large would benefit from it. "This is a remainder of when I was younger as an alter server. Fathers’ day reminds us that as fathers we should play our role in the society not only at home.  "We are the head of the family and our utterances at home will shapen our family; our utterances will determine whether our children will be positive or negative .  "If our utterances are negative, then just kn...

By Chris Tony Akhabue The Prestigious ETERNO Hotel and Suits located at the GRA area of Benin City, the Edo State Capital, played host to the crem De la crem of the society yesterday as the book, MY JOURNEY INTO POLITICS,  Between a hobby and a calling, was unveiled and launched. The author of the book, Honourable Victor Osobase Emuakhagbon, the immediate past local government Chairman of Esan South East Local Government area of Edo state noted  that he decided to write the book to serve as a guide to the younger generation  to know that to whom much was given, that much was also expected. He pointed out that, that was the reason why he started the book with his humble beginning, his early life struggle to become what he is today. He said he particularly wanted to use the book as a didactic material to instruct the younger generation that it is dangerous to sell one's entire time to the service of  politicians, stessing that it was  inappropriate to ...