Concerns about the Ogoni dialogue process and the proposed resumption of oil production in Ogoniland, by Donu Kogbara
Chief Lesi Maol is the President of KAGOTE, the Ogoni equivalent of Afenifere, Ohanaeze and the Arewa Consultative Forum. Maol, a highly successful businessman and generous philanthropist who has donated billions to worthy causes in Rivers State, also happens to be a member of the Ogoni Dialogue Committee (ODC), which was inaugurated by the Federal […]
Centennial tribute to a great Rivers gentleman
CHIEF Godfrey Kio Jaja Amachree – fondly addressed as “GKJ” by his many friends – was born 100 years ago, on February 27, 1917, to Chief Sekin Jaja Amachree, a pioneering colonial administrator of Kalabari extraction who was widely known as “Pa Sekin”.
Tribute to a literary lioness
FLORENCE Onyebuchi Emecheta, one of Nigeria’s most skilled novelists, passed away last month (January 25), aged 72, and was buried in London this week.
Freedom of speech-concerns
A COUPLE of weeks ago, a group of Nigerian public commentators, intellectuals, activists and writers wrote an open letter in which they expressed – to President Muhammadu Buhari – deep concern over “what appears to be an increase in harassment by security services of journalists going about their work.”
A good ending
LAST week, I said on this page that I had grave reservations about President Buhari’s active involvement in a non-Nigerian political crisis that had been brought on by his Gambian counterpart Yahya Jammeh’s undemocratic misconduct.
Abuse of power part I
Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega selected his wife, Rosario Murillo, to be his running mate when he was seeking a fourth term in office.
