By Donu Kogbara There are different types of friends. Some are boisterous social animals with whom you just gist and eat and drink and laugh.  Others are intensely cerebral or religious and don’t have time for frivolity in any shape or form, so you only call them when you are in a quiet and reflective […]

By Donu Kogbara LAST month on this page, I bitterly complained about the way in which disdainful and ill-mannered Buhari Government officials sadistically take delight in crushing the nation’s collective spirit…, as in a) insulting our intelligence by gaslighting us (refusing to acknowledge their broken promises and multiple failures), and b) exacerbating the misery that […]

By Duno Kogbara Last week, Queen Elizabeth’s grandson Prince Harry and his half-black wife, Meghan Markle, had a daughter and named it Lilibet. Lilibet is the Queen’s pet name, hitherto only used in very intimate family settings by Her Majesty’s late parents and late husband. This development came as a complete surprise to most onlookers […]

By Donu Kogbara The SHIP OF STATE is a renowned metaphor that was coined by the Ancient Greek poet Alcaeus and later popularised by Plato, also a product of the Classical period in Ancient Greece and widely regarded as the founder of Western political philosophy.   In Book VI (6) of his highly influential book, […]

Last weekend, Rivers State Governor, Chief Nyesom Wike, was warmly hosted by VIP members of my Ogoni ethnic group – and by hundreds of grassroots wellwishers – in our traditional headquarters, Bori.

I’m flabbergasted by the relentless unkindness that Nigeria’s rulers are inflicting on the millions who aren’t members of their cabal.

LAST week, I extensively quoted Pastor Ituah Ighodalo’s comments about government “gatekeepers” who are holding the nation to ransom. He said we should name them  and tell them to stop it!…

SOMETIMES, other people say exactly what I would have said myself and say it so well that I don’t feel a need to add my own remarks.

PASTOR Onimim (Nims) Obunge is a quintessential gentleman who proudly describes himself as a Kalabari from Rivers State. He also proudly describes himself as a Londoner, having been born 56 years ago in the capital city of the United Kingdom to a career diplomat and educator – Ambassador D.D. and Lady Emma Obunge.

COLONEL Milland Dixon Dikio (voluntarily retired) is a seasoned professional. He has been exposed to a multinational education. He has held command, diplomatic, staff and teaching appointments. He was decorated with ECOMOG, OAU and UN Peacekeeping medals.