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Fresh comments attributed to Pope Francis suggest that Jesus's body was swapped after crucifixion
POPE Francis has sent shockwaves across Christendom with a reconstructed view about the resurrection saying that he does not believe that Jesus Christ resurrected from the dead in the same body in which he was buried. Historically,...
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Nigeria should transfer the responsibility for approving mountain top worship centres to the minister of solid minerals
By Ayo Akinfe (1) As today is a faith holiday in Nigeria with us celebrating Eid el-Maulud, I want to return to this pressing matter of religious capital. No matter how you look at things, it presents Nigeria with the biggest potential source of...
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Nigeria needs to cash in on the fact that the world’s last generation of professional miners will soon be all retired
By Ayo Akinfe (1) Nigerians always bemoan the fact that their leaders lack vision but we have to ask ourselves if that is surprising. Someone who assumes office because they are well connected or because they have been a loyal political...
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Medical history created after a woman delivers a set of twins belonging to different dads
MEDICAL history has been made in China after an unfaithful wife gave birth to a set of twins in the southeastern city of Xiamen with each one of them belonged to different fathers in what is a very rare clinical occurrence. Apparently,...
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Can someone please explain to me why Nigeria does not have an aggressive horse production programme?
By Ayo Akinfe (1) As Nigeria desperately searches around for potential sources of revenue, can someone please tell me why we have not thought about horses? A horse costs about $2,000 on the open market, so just imagine the revenue we would...
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No nation ever develops until it puts in place a proper female empowerment policy which goes beyond platitudes and token gestures
By Ayo Akinfe (1) Today, I have decided to write about the women’s movement because November 7 is a historic day in the fight for gender equality. It was on this day in 1916 that Jeannette Rankin from Montana was elected to US Congress as its...
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Think tank calls for a ban on private jets as they generate 10 times more carbon than commercial flights
BRITISH think tank the Common Wealth has called for a ban on the use of private jets saying they are a threat to the environment given that they create 1m tonnes of carbon dioxide in the UK alone annually. Over the last decade, there...
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Do you know that Nigeria does not have one registered or protected tropical rainforest despite 7.7% of our landmass being made up of this vegetation?
By Ayo Akinfe (1) I was just checking through some data on tropical rainforests and discovered there is not one such registered forest in Nigeria. This is despite the fact that it forms the majority of the environment in certain states like...
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