*‘Claim laughable’ By Simon Ebegbulem Benin city-EDO State government has described the Chief Dan Orbih-led Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the state as an illegal body, and declared that it may stop joining issues with any member of the state executive of the party. In a statement signed by the director, poverty alleviation in the […]

IT was a gory sight yesterday in Dekina, in Dekina Local Government Area of Kogi State when a truck carrying fertilizer lost control and crashed into a market in the area, killing about 90 people.

In this essay, I argue that Christmas has become a useless social fad which should be allowed to die out because it has progressively degenerated into a period for indulging and celebrating the grossest attributes of the human species – greed, avarice, licentious living, debauchery and spiritual self-abnegation.

MINISTER of State, Federal  Ministry of Niger-Delta Affairs, and Elder Godsday Orubebe has said he was not at loggerheads with the minister of Niger-Delta Affairs, Chief Ufot Ekaette, as insinuated by the Warri-Ijaw Peace Monitoring Group (WIPMG), which recently called for Ekaette’s removal from office. Orubebe’s special assistant, media, Ekenwan Akwangbe in a press statement, […]

By Udo Ibuot COMPOSER of the National Anthem, Pa  Benedict Odiase, has called on the  Nigerian Copyright Commission (NCC) to adhere to its  December 31 deadline for the registration  of qualified organizations as part of the Collective Management Organizations (CMOs) proposed by the commission as a way of bringing order to the industry. Odiase who […]

The structures we have would win for us a gold medal if having them was all that was needed to judge them. America does not even have them – huge cars and convoys for public officers and their dependants; full time pay for all cadres of public officers for no jobs done; billions sunk into buying aircraft for use of heads of the organs of government.

For those who enjoy arguments, I am sure they will bring up the argument of one man who was believed to be an heretic when he thought the earth was round while others thought it was flat. I am not discussing basics of science or earth shaking theories in evolution or even technology, what I am concerned with is the fact that a lot of people are depressed and lonely.

Look, I get so amused with Nigerians about Nigeria and in their reaction to political issues, I believe we still have this Boy Scout attitude, this Boy Scout mentality about events. We forget yesterday, right. And we address today as if today did not emerge from yesterday and as if tomorrow is not going to come about.

James Ibori’s case which has been turned into a charade can serve as proxy for others pending in the courts. This particular case has demonstrated, as no other, how those expensive lawyers, Senior Advocates of Nigeria, SAN, and judges have conspired to delay justice. Granted, the great Dr Samuel Johnson, 1709-1784, had pronounced that, “A lawyer has no business with the justice or injustice of the cause which he undertakes”.

REPRIEVE finally came the way of Charles Chukuma Soludo, the once-embattled governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, for the Anambra State gubernatorial elections slated for February 6, 2010, by way of a Supreme Court pronouncement