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NOLLYWOOD BEAUTY STELLA DAMASUS ABOUT TO WED A THIRD TIME. WHY FRIENDS ARE OPPOSED TO IT
By Our Reportert
Nollywood delectable actress – Stella Damasus is said to be gearing up for a walk down the aisle – the third time she would do so and friends are worried that the pretty actress may have her heart broken again and have subsequently advised her not to do it. Other admirers are worried over the rumor that is fast spreading in the industry that she is the cause of the break-up of the marriage of the producer whom she is said to have been secretly engaged to.
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THE DIASPORAN STAR EDITORIAL - February 2013
...OF REMITTANCES, NIGERIANS IN THE DIASPORA AND 2015: TIME TO BECOME MORE ENGAGED
By Ekerete Udoh
About a month ago, I read a comment to an article that was written by a Nigerian in the Diaspora in one of the social media sites, where the writer had railed against the parlous state of infrastructural development in the country, the deficit in democratic dividends and the paucity of that propelling impulse of the common good among the leadership class that had pretty much defined the Western world’s relationship with the governed. The writer had in a non-confrontational manner, but in a voice that was dripping with frustration enjoined the leadership class to do more to advance the peoples’ condition by addressing some of the concerns he had emphasized in the article.
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AKPABIO AT 50 AND THE PROMISE OF A NEW NIGERIA
I am always amazed when I consider the age range of the men who fought the American Revolutionary wars and eventually gave the world a system of government that has endured for over two hundred years and which has been copied, replicated in so many forms and formats and today, remains the best form of government where people’s God’s given talents and inalienable rights are protected and given supreme expressions and motivations.
Add a commentOF PROGRESSIVISM AND CONSERVATISM: WHICH WAY NIGERIA?
By Ekerete Udoh
President Obama’s second Inaugural Speech has been lauded or pilloried (depending on where one stands on the ideological spectrum) as representing the final death-knell to Reaganomics – a resort to rugged individualism and laisser-fair economic policy that has loomed large and shaped the American socio-political landscape for the past 20 years, or the
ascendance of Progressivism – the belief that government can not willy-nilly be exorcised from the people’s lives and that government whether big or limited has a role in creating the enabling environment for the provision and safeguarding of ‘Negative Rights’ to its citizens – a governing philosophy that shaped most of the enduring public policy of the 20th Century America.
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PHOTO NEWS: GOVERNOR GODSWILL AKPABIO'S 50TH BIRTHDAY CELEBRATION IN PICTURES
Governor Akpabio of Akwa Ibom State recently celebrated his 50th with friends and family. It was indeed a red letter day. View the pictures after the cut...
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