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 […]
Unfair and puzzling cynicism!
Last week on this page, I wrote a heartfelt tribute to my friend, Mr Babs Omotowa, the outgoing MD of Nigeria Liquefied Natural Gas, NLNG, which was established in
Farewell to an exemplary executive
NLNG has also, under Omotowa, built and equipped engineering laboratories, costing $2 million apiece, in six universities – Ahmadu Bello, Ibadan, Uniport, Maiduguri, Ilorin and Nsukka). In other words, one in each geopolitical zone.
Vindication at last
My dear sister and friend, Temi Harriman, a lawyer and politician, has just won a legal battle against a bunch of malicious men who decided, for reasons best known to themselves, to libel a lady who doesn’t deserve to be embarrassed.
A soluble problem?
We keep receiving conflicting and confusing information about the Niger Delta Avengers, NDA, the militant group that has been waging war on the Nigerian Government and inflicting huge losses on the oil industry for the past few months.
Northern Christians
LAST week, I published a sad letter I’d received from a Northern Christian from Borno State. He complained about myriad injustices that the Muslim majority had been inflicting on his people, whom he described as a silently suffering voiceless minority. And I, ever-eager to leap to the defence of the oppressed, sympathised.
