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How Niger Delta was underdeveloped by its leaders, by Dele Sobowale

How Niger Delta was underdeveloped by its leaders, by Dele Sobowale

“Niger Delta got $160bn in 27 yrs, yet remains underdeveloped – Aig-Imoukhuede” – VANGUARD, SEPTEMBER 16, 2026. “Every country has the government it deserves” – Joseph de Maistre, 1753-1821. Thank God for Nigerians like Aig-Imoukhuede who occasionally seizes the opportunity to tell Nigerians the truth we hate to hear. He was the Keynote Address Speaker […]
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God save us from the curse of “First Ladies”

God save us from the curse of “First Ladies”

“Revolutions end up in the hands of madmen. Besides, if the power is great enough, it will make its own mad men by its own pressure” – Saul Bellow. (VANGUARD BOOK OF QUOTATIONS ….

Chips of the old block (2)

Chips of the old block (2)

In a press release by his Special Adviser on Monitoring, Mr. Bernard Mikko, the former General Manager of the Nigeria Ports Authority, NPA, Alhaji Bamanga Tukur, sought to distance himself from his son’s present predicaments. Unfortunately for Tukur and Mikko, they missed the point entirely.

Chips of the old block: The next generation takes over -1

Chips of the old block: The next generation takes over -1

“If your children are not better than you; then you must have fathered them in vain”. Leo Tolstoy, 1828-1910.
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has finally opened the cases on the fuel subsidy fraud. Let me hasten to state that none of the accused persons is presumed guilty on this page.

Perm Sec, Patience Jonathan, PSPJ

Perm Sec, Patience Jonathan, PSPJ

Mrs. Patience Jonathan, PSPJ, has certainly made history; even if atrocious history. And Bayelsa State has also entered into the Guinness Book of Records – in a way that now indisputably demonstrates to the world that the Dark Age is not over in Nigeria.

Job creation: Tread softly Ict Minister – 1

Job creation: Tread softly Ict Minister – 1

Any public official wanting to have trouble with me should make a careless statement about job creation; be it the President, a Governor, Minster or whatever. Unemployment, affecting over 40% of our people; and involving every home in Nigeria, is such a personal and social tragedy that it should be completely taken out of the salad bowl of lies which public officials peddle all over Nigeria.