QUEST Radio And Yoruba Herbalists

By Richard Maduku,      I would have died by now if not for Quest FM Radio (93.1 MHz), Otor Ogor – a town that is gradually merging with Ughelli City here in Delta State. This was when my smart phone was damaged beyond the expertise of local technicians. The third technician who also could not fix it in Ughelli advised that it should be taken to the manufacturers’ repair shop in Warri. So I did. I It is the ensuing boredom the two months (February and March) that I…

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The Demonisation Of Laptops

  BY RICHARD MADUKU Something many foreigners would swear was impossible even in a dream or in fairy land is happening in Nigeria today. It is not the free fall of the country into the poverty capital of the world. Many outsiders can hardly believe that a nation blessed with so much natural and human resources like Nigeria could become a place where the majority would be gnashing their teeth in hunger and converting the same into fasting and praying. It is also not the transformation of the stick-carrying rustic…

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Omo-Agege Show Of Shame

An Article by Richard Maduku Many Urhobo men and women were in anguish as the rest of Nigerians were celebrating the new democracy day on 12 June, 2019. This was not because they preferred the old democracy day (29 May) to the new one.  It was also not because a band of armed Fulani herdsmen had almost wiped out the population of an entire Urhobo village as they did in Mali recently. It is true Fulani vandals from God-knows-where have been killing, raping women and maiming Urhobo people as well…

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