Owo Ranch: Attention, Gov Peter Mbah! By Ochereome Nnanna
I have visited Enugu State three times since Dr Peter Mbah assumed office as Governor of Enugu State. In two of those visits, I participated in guided tours of his project sites. He regularly trends for high performance. This is not mere hype. Mbah is not only a top performer; he is visionary in broad […]
Journey to Aba
FRIDAY, March 30th 2012 was a special day in Abia State and Aba in particular. It was that day that the Governor of Abia State, Chief Theodore Orji, invited the media and the general public to accompany him to Aba to witness the commissioning of some capital projects in Aba and Umuahia over the course of two days.
Let Police keep crime database
THE term, “beauty of democracy” is an understatement when you consider the impetus the National Assembly has provided the ordinary citizen to start understanding the convoluted nature of government in Nigeria.
Ngozi, the man for the job
WHEN the story broke that our Minister for Finance and Coordinating Minister for the Economy, Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala (NOI) had been tipped for the Presidency of the World Bank, the first questions that rushed to my mind were: Will she? Should she? Not, can she? I will briefly touch ruminatively on all three.
Now, GEJ sits pretty
ONCE it was public knowledge that President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan had a preferred candidate for National Chairman of the ruling Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, I knew he was interested in the 2015 politics. Normally, every president in power in Nigeria would be interested even if he has exhausted his two terms. If he is not running again he will be putting someone of his own choosing as he vacates office.
Was the Awo/Akintola feud ‘senseless’?
HOW seriously do we take our history as a nation or even as members of its constituent parts? How important is our history to us? I know for one that America does not joke with her history.
