Senators have just fast-tracked a bill to establish a new South-South Development Commission, SSDC, despite the long-standing existence of the Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC. Yesterday, the SSDC Bill passed second reading on the floor of the Senate. Lawmakers also proposed amendments to the new North-West Development Commission, NWDC, and South-East Development Commission, SEDC, Acts […]

Senator Adams Oshiomhole recently took it upon himself to taunt Mrs Betsy Obaseki, the Edo State Governor’s highly accomplished wife, for being childless. On the other side of the world, in the United States, JD Vance, Donald Trump’s motor mouth running mate, has also taken pot shots at women who have no children…women such as Kamala […]

Last week, I watched the American Democratic Party’s National Convention on TV. It took place in Chicago and was so uplifting.   A clutch of famous Democrats – Barack Obama, Michelle Obama, Oprah Winfrey and Hillary Clinton included – took to the vast stage to deliver stirring speeches and warm endorsements of presidential hopeful, Kamala Harris, and […]

This is not the first time that a major tragedy has struck the Ajumogobia clan. In 1996, its paterfamilias was killed in a plane crash, alongside 143 other passengers and ADC Air crew members.

After vacationing in the UK and US for a few weeks, I returned to Nigeria when the EndBadGovernance protests had been ongoing for four days…and were expected to run for an additional six days.  Friends who expected the worst had urged me to stay abroad till the protests were over; but prolonging my stay would have […]