By Festus Okubor ALL through the ages, great leaders, who impacted their generations and times rose from among the people and suffered as they emerged from nothingness to become something. The examples of Winston Churchill of Great Britain, Abraham Lincoln of America, Nnamdi Azikiwe of Nigeria, Kwame Nkrumah of Ghana, Obafemi Awolowo of Nigeria, just […]

By Goodluck Edafe THE marriage of the Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC, to the Ministry of Niger Delta, MND, by the Federal Government few years ago has been a source of concern in the Niger Delta. The fear in different quarters has been that an NDDC management board tucked under a Minister of the Ministry […]

By Joseph  Okeze  It has already been established that the core and crux of Okowa’s development agenda is Job and Wealth Creation aimed principally at bringing about Prosperity for all Deltans.  This is particularly important because it is on this basis that the administration can be judged both now and in the future. This write-up […]

By Mideno Bayagbon RECENTLY, I had a flying visit to Delta State and toured the state incognito. I even attended a few of the campaign rallies, where I tried to make myself as inconspicuous as possible. I slept in villages without light or telecommunications in Asaba, Agbor, Abraka, Eku, Warri, Effurun, Sapele, Idjere, and other […]

By VICTOR ECOMA National interest should be driven by the motive to build a stable and progressive country before any other interest can be served. Eight months of Universities shut-down is not in the best interest of the country and should have been avoided by every available means. It is far easier to stop salaries […]