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Nigeria Needs The Peace Serum of Restructuring.

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Nigeria needs to be restructured. Just look at Nigeria today. This truth is staring us in our collective faces. The current ethnic and religious clashes bedevilling Nigeria are symptoms of the disease. They themselves are not the illness. We must address the root causes of the various symptoms of insecurity Nigeria now faces. Nigeria needs peace, unity and prosperity. But all three of these virtues are dependent on Nigeria having social justice. Without justice, there cannot be cohesiveness in a multi-ethnic and multi-religious nation as Nigeria. Nigeria has fo u ndational issues, which we have to resolve. Until we resolve those issues, our nation may not fulfil its potentials of being the beacon of light for the Black Race, even if we have the most righteous people at the helm. It has been said by many behavioural scientists that ‘the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again, but expecting different results.’ We have been operating from the same u...

Larry King Dies at 87; Longtime Talk-Show Host Was Reportedly Hospitalized With Covid-19.

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Larry King, a longtime CNN talk-show host whose casual style of questioning landed him high-profile interviews with world leaders, celebrities and star athletes for decades, has died. He was 87. Mr. King died Saturday morning at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, according to his production company, Ora Media. No cause of death was given, but CNN, where he worked until 2010, reported earlier this month that he had been hospitalized with Covid-19. Mr. King weathered numerous health problems over the years. He suffered several heart attacks, including a major one in 1987 that required quintuple bypass surgery and led him to create the Larry King Cardiac Foundation. Once a heavy smoker, King was diagnosed with lung cancer in 2017, underwent an angioplasty and suffered a stroke in 2019. Mr. King was married eight times to seven women and had five children. Known for his rolled-up shirt sleeves, suspenders and pompadour hairstyle, Mr. King had a gravelly baritone that gave off an a...