Last year when Senator Daisy Danjuma threw her weight behind Governor Godwin Obaseki at an event in Lagos, the PDP hurled all manner of invectives at the wife of General TY Danjuma. The party criticized her for supporting a failed governor, saying. “The commissioned 5 star specialist hospital is still home to reptiles, Tayo Akpata University of Education an unfulfilled political Greek gift, College of Agriculture Ogierieki, a victim of policy lip-service, the Gelegele sea port project is still a mirage and the industrial park is still at the MOU level. The governor you are endorsing have left 14 constituencies unrepresented in the state house of assembly, to mention a few.”

By Jerome-Mario Utomi JUST like history which has a way of repeating itself, the sudden wave of ultimatum issued to the Federal Government in a space of one week by two oil-producing communities in Delta State, as well as another by two Niger Delta region agitators, should be a source of worry to all. These communities […]

By Bola Aliu The government’s recent decision to close the Third Mainland Bridge for six months, come July 24, 2020, is a painfully inconvenient one for commuters, yet it is long overdue and necessary in order to avert a disaster. The last time the bridge was closed for an extended length of time was in […]

Uba Osigwe was one of the most powerful and colourful personalities to have occupied the office of the Secretary to Imo State Government in modern history. That was in the 90s. As a civil servant, he retired when he was 60 years. In fullness of time, he also died.

Nothing defines the title of this essay more than the cause and the outcome of the recent‘internecine’ war in the APC triggered by the struggle for power between a Godfather and his godson in Edo state which has inflicted on the former,  a bloody nose and seared the latter politically.