Nigeria, my heartbreaking age mate, by Donu Kogbara
Nigeria cast aside the shackles of colonialism and became an independent nation exactly 66 years ago. I am also 66; and as I have pointed out to anyone who will listen to me on every single October lst in recent decades, neither I nor the land of my ancestors are getting any younger or stronger. […]
Tribute to a departed cousin by Donu Kogbara
EARLIER on this month, my cousin, Chief Mrs. Zainab Marwa, the Igolo Oha 1, went to meet her Maker. She was related to me via my mother and her branch of the family was highly successful.
Physician, heal thyself!
Our super-chatty Governor, Nyesom Wike, attended this year’s event two weeks ago and seized this opportunity to tell today’s Ogoni leaders off for being disunited, selling out, blaming others for our collective misfortunes and not being focused on problem-solving.
Role models
Another role model worth mentioning today, as we end an old year and enter a new one, is Governor Samuel Ortom of Benue State.
Effective journalism
By Donu Kogbara KAY Burley is one of my favourite foreign broadcasters. She works for Sky, a British TV channel. She often interviews senior civil servants or politicians. She doesn’t like nonsense and never meekly or sychophantically tolerates untruths, evasions and obfuscations. Government officials across the globe are famed for trying to be too clever […]
Smart perspectives on current challenges
By Donu Kogbara MY erudite uncle, Jonas Odocha, a graduate of the world-famous Imperial College in London and former Group General Manager of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, recently sent me his thoughts on two issues that should interest all thinking Nigerians. I’m sharing his educational views with Vanguard readers verbatim because I can’t […]
