PANDEF at 10: Looking ahead
The Pan Niger Delta Forum (PANDEF) marked its tenth anniversary on 27th October 2026, with a meeting of its Board of Trustees and National Executive Committee in Abuja and virtually. Chaired by Obong Victor Attah, with National Chairman Godknows Boladei Igali, the gathering reviewed a decade of advocacy and issued a 48-point communiqué demanding 50 […]
As Ogoni clean-up gathers pace
It is so heart-warming to see that the long-touted Ogoniland clean-up has become a reality and no longer the stuff of speculation or propaganda. A recent media tour verified that the yearnings of the Ogoni people, the subject of their struggle and the vision of the United Nations Environmental Programme, UNEP, to restore Ogoniland, are […]
Respecting Rivers people’s mandates
The Senate and House of Representatives chambers of the National Assembly did not disappoint in their virtual rubberstamping of the state of emergency President Bola Tinubu declared in Rivers State on Wednesday last week. He suspended those elected by the Rivers people to govern them for a term of four years – Governor Siminalayi Fubara, […]
Adelabu’s predatory power tariffs
About a year ago, Nigerians woke up to be confronted with a massive hike in power supply tariff. President Bola Tinubu’s government, which operates an economic template dictated by the IMF/World Bank, extended his subsidy removal to the power sector. On his Inauguration Day (May 29, 2023) he had announced the immediate commencement of implementation […]
Upgrading street sweepers to minimum wage
The problems associated with contract employment in the Nigerian labour market reared their ugly heads last week when a female street sweeper, who declined to disclose her name, went on a lone protest in Lagos to draw attention to the plight she and her 16,488 colleagues face. According to her in an appeal to the […]
Calls on NCC to block porn sites
We are fully on the same page with the call by the House of Representatives on the need to block all porn sites because of the damage porn is wreaking on the fabric of our society. Last week, the House directed the Nigerian Communications Commission, NCC, the industry regulator, to shut down porn hosting websites […]
