The Most Rev. Matthew Kukah, Bishop of the Catholic Diocese of Sokoto, is uncharacteristically complacent. Recently, he upbraided Nigerians for fretting about the Rivers State crisis, triggered by the festering conflict between the current governor Siminalayi Fubara and his immediate predecessor, Nyesom Wike. “We ordinary people cry more than the bereaved,” Rev. Kukah said, adding: […]

DON’T  mind her. She always engages in small talk. When you hear the expression ‘small talk’ what comes to mind? An irrelevant chatter? Light informal conversations between people who don’t know each other well? Or an expression to avoid social awkwardness? Small talk should never be seen as just idle chatter; it is a fundamental social […]

RIVERS State is the wealth iest of the four core oil producing states – Akwa Ibom, Delta, Bayelsa and Rivers. It is always either the highest federal allocation and oil derivation earner, or second. Definitely, it is the highest in terms of internally generated revenue among the four since it is second only to Lagos […]

OUR Nigerian politicians (for this needs to be emphasised, being the special breed that they are) are like vultures or some other birds of prey already roving in our political sky, waiting to pounce in a sudden dip on the unsuspecting prey on the ground- to snatch, grab and run away with power as the incumbent […]

IT is a forlorn hope and an unattainable dream to expect the West to conduct its affairs according to the impulse of humanity and principles of humanising behaviours that are intrinsic to other nations and peoples. For too long, the West had relied on force as a driving impulse in its conception of relations with […]