Why Amaechi urgently needs a governor, by Donu Kogbara
Rotimi Chibuike Amaechi, the former Rivers State Governor and former Minister of Transportation, recently made his second bid for a presidential candidacy (the first was in 2022), but was defeated at the primaries stage by Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, the former Vice President who basically owns the ADC opposition party to which Amaechi belongs. Amaechi’s political fortunes […]
Can it happen here?
By Donu Kogbara SINCE the Taliban triumphantly marched into Kabul nearly a fortnight ago, many people have gloomily predicted that Nigeria will suffer a similar dire fate at some point in the not-too-distant future. After all, we too have deadly vipers in our collective bosom, as in home-grown and foreign Talibanesque Islamic extremists – ISIS, Al […]
COVID vaccine: Nigeria’s failure to produce one
By Donu Kogbara LAST week on this page, I expressed the view that Nigeria could have produced a COVID vaccine if our government was seriously focusing on the need to transform this country into a real Giant Of Africa. Jonas Odocha ([email protected]), a former Group General Manager at NNPC, the state oil company, responded thus: Dear […]
COVID-19 Vaccine issues
By Donu Kogbara WHEN I was a teenager, my father bought me a poster that I stuck on my bedroom wall. The words emblazoned on it were: “Sometimes, I look at things that are and I ask myself ‘why?’ At other times, I think about things that aren’t and ask myself ‘why not?’” That poster […]
Enough is enough
By Donu Kogbara SENATOR Godswill Akpabio, the former Governor of Akwa Ibom State, has been controversial and embattled – to put it mildly! – since he became Minister of Niger Delta Affairs in 2019. First, he got presidential approval to initiate a “forensic audit” of the notoriously tangled finances and opaque operations of the Niger Delta […]
It doesn’t take much
By Donu Kogbara I HAVE on this page expressed, more than once, the view that this government is crushing the average Nigerian’s spirit in two ways:Firstly, government has a penchant for managing its practical responsibilities ineptly; and, thanks to rampant insecurity and chronic socio-economic stress, we live with constant, spirit-crushing fear of being killed or kidnapped […]
