Why Amaechi urgently needs a governor, by Donu Kogbara
Rotimi Chibuike Amaechi, the former Rivers State Governor and former Minister of Transportation, recently made his second bid for a presidential candidacy (the first was in 2022), but was defeated at the primaries stage by Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, the former Vice President who basically owns the ADC opposition party to which Amaechi belongs. Amaechi’s political fortunes […]
A Niger Deltan laments
LAST week, I mentioned the numerous challenges faced by the Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC, an intervention agency that has never served its constituents adequately and is famed for mismanaging the vast sums of money it has at its disposal.
My NDDC experience
THE Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC, has been a hotbed of controversy and friction for as far back as I can remember. Senior NDDC executives and their political godfathers in various states and Abuja often have major disagreements with each other; and these Establishment tiffs sometimes erupt into open warfare.
‘God must be a Bayelsan!’
By Donu Kogbara I WAS minding my business in my Abuja residence yesterday – and feeling depressed about the state of the nation – when my phone rang. It was an All Progressives Congress, APC, chieftain friend. “The Supreme Court has just returned Bayelsa to PDP (Peoples Democratic Party)!” he told me. “It’s a lie!” I […]
Should Maryam Sanda die?
By Donu Kogbara Maryam Sanda is the most notorious and controversial woman in Nigeria at the moment. Until November 2017, she was just one of many well-connected young women who uneventfully populate the Federal Capital Territory. The daughter of Maimuna Alliyu, a onetime Aso Savings CEO, she had married Bilyaminu Haliru-Bello, an equally well-connected young […]
Sweet and sour by Donu Kogbara
Last week, the SupremeCourt ruled against the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Governor, Emeka Ihedioha, and handed his seat to Hope Uzodinma of the All Progressives Congress, APC. Heated debates ensued about the legal validity of this judgment; and the controversy was partly fuelled by the fact that there wasn’t a single APC member in the […]
