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 […]
Africans selling Africans
I’VE just read, in the Political Economist, an online publication, a shocking article about Africans being openly bought and sold in Libyan “slave markets”.
Police suicides
According to an old article I recently chanced upon in The Will, an online publication, our Police Force has “declared its worry over the rising cases of suicide among its officers across the country.”
A rare success
By Donu Kogbara ROTIMI Amaechi, the Minister of Transport, should be heartily congratulated for establishing an efficient railway service between the Federal capital and Kaduna. When it was announced that Nnamdi Azikiwe Airport would be shut down for six weeks, starting March 8, while its ragged runways were being totally reconstructed, I was one […]
Shameful and ridiculous
EARLIER on this week, I was contacted by a gentleman called Jude Ndukwe (jrndukwe@-yahoo.-co.uk). He is the national leader of the Movement for the Advancement of National Transformation, MANTRA, a civil society organisation, CSO, and he introduced himself as the co-convenor of an upcoming rally that would culminate in a solidarity visit to the Abuja headquarters of Amnesty International, AI, the respected multinational human rights organisation.
Another type of suicide
I’VE just seen a sad report that was emailed to me by the Political Economist, a news website. It says that Marine Police in Lagos have found the body of Dr. Allwell Orji, who jumped off Third Mainland Bridge into the lagoon last Sunday.
