South-east and PMB: An emerging partnership
By Ignatius Arinze The nature of the relationship of the South-east geo- political zone and President Muhammadu Buhari has been a subject of much speculation. The often quoted line is that there is no...
View ArticleAnambra, Obiano and the APGA revolution
By Ifeanyi Afuba A new Anambra State is in the making. It is an evolving society in which the government-citizen pact is growing roots. The cultivation of this social progressive force reached a new...
View ArticleLibya: The slave-trading capital of Africa
By Israel Ebije Activities of slave merchants trading off migrants stuck in Libya have earned the country a reputation once an exclusive preserve of countries like Italy, France, Portugal, Britain and...
View ArticleAtiku’s return to PDP
Former Vice-President, Abubakar Atiku’s long-foretold return to the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) occurred last Sunday, December 3. It was on the platform of the party that he had contested as a...
View ArticleThe hypocrisy of restructuring Nigeria
By Prince Charles Dickson I was invited to be a guest speaker at Victor Kuchili’s annual stepping out convention, precisely the eighth one. I was asked to speak on the demand on leadership in a dynamic...
View ArticlePolitics of sycophancy in Nigeria
By Itaobong Offiong Etim Sycophancy is a way of winning or currying favour from powerful and influential people through flattery and praise singing. This cringing subservient attitude is described by...
View ArticleWorld AIDS Day and the right to health
By Paul John THE theme of this year’s World AIDS Day is My Health, My Right, and it focuses on the right to health. It goes further to explore the challenges people around the world face in exercising...
View ArticleAkpokue Dike, It’s the Morning After Anambra Electoral Victory.
By Uchenna Orazulike Nnoli Your Excellency, I wish to start by congratulating you once again on your comprehensive victory in the just concluded Anambra state governorship election. Regardless of what...
View ArticleOsun: Boosting economic development with rural roads
By Kingsley Omoyeni Nigeria, being a major oil producing nation, had hitherto depended on oil for a large chunk of its foreign exchange, thereby neglecting the agric sector for many years. During those...
View ArticleNDDC board: Needless hullabaloo over tenure
By Michael Jegede Notwithstanding the lucid explanation given by the Federal Government while denying an alleged extension of the tenure of the current Governing Board of Niger Delta Development...
View ArticlePenCom: Need to avert another Mainagate
By Lukman Isiaku Virtually every sane and patriotic Nigerian is shuddering and cursing over the audacity of corruption and impunity called Mainagate. But, unless the impunity and cronyism visited on...
View ArticleWhy PDP must avoid America’s mistake
By Suleiman Uba Gaya It all started like a rumour. Or an expensive joke. And so, when a showman called Donald Trump formally declared to vie for the presidency of the United States on June 16, 2015, in...
View ArticleAtiku’s return to PDP and matters arising
Former Vice President, Alhaji Abubakar Atiku late last month left the All Progressives Congress (APC), a party he joined before the 2015 elections in the aftermath of the crisis that trailed the...
View ArticleAtiku’s new romance with PDP
Former Vice President, Atiku Abubakar, recently hugged the headlines when he formally decamped from the All Progressives Congress (APC) and pitched tent with his erstwhile political party, the Peoples...
View ArticleAkanji’s five years at FUT, Minna
By Lydia Legbo Indeed, time flies when you are happy. It was the award winning writer, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie who once said that in her debut novel titled Purple Hibiscus. It was just like yesterday...
View ArticlePDP’s failure to learn from past blunders
By Abba Moro The Anambra State Gubernatorial election of November 18, 2017 may have come and gone but the sad memories still linger. It is no longer news that Governor Willie Obiano won the election...
View ArticleThoughts on the 2018 Ogun State budget
By Chief Tolu Odebiyi Ogun State was in the news recently for all the right reasons. It’s been about two weeks since the 2018 Budget of the State was presented to the State House of Assembly by H.E Sen...
View ArticleWhat information did Tinubu give Buhari in Cote d’Ivoire?
By Tunde Rahman It was quite gratifying seeing President Muhammadu Buhari display rare strength and character recently in Abidjan, Cote d’Ivoire’s capital. Strength because without betraying any sign...
View ArticleLearn & Work European Vocational Institute: Ekweremadu’s smart move
By Ikechukwu Oji On Saturday, 25th November, 2017, the Learn & Work European Vocational Institute was launched in Enugu by the Deputy President of the Nigerian Senate, Senator Ike Ekweremadu, CFR,...
View ArticleAlex Ekwueme: A tribute (1)
By UZODINMA NWALA The day was Thursday, August 13, 1998. The setting was a meeting of the nascent People’s Democratic Party (PDP) which just metamorphosed from the activist group, G-34, in Abuja,...
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