Governor Rochas  Okorocha of Imo State  recent yelling to the effect that no governor in Imo State’s history has either equaled or surpassed his records which enjoyed screaming headlines in the media has expectedly opened  the Pandora’s box, triggering  several questions: what informed this obvious misinformation, distortion of facts and awful attempts to re-write records  of governance and public administration in Imo? 

OLOROGUN Moses Taiga, son of the respected Joseph Taiga Zeze, an Ijaw man from Kiagbodo who currently presents himself as a factional President General, PG, of the Urhobo Progressive Union recently recruited two mendacious surrogates, one Francis Ewherido  and a politician by name Onokpasa, to gloss his history by trying vainly to re-write the patrilineal structure and nature of Urhobo society and history in their seperate articles titled: “Delta:season of omuru and umuta” and “why Taiga is solidly urhobo” .

with the recent pronouncement of president Muhammadu Buhari, now every June 12, all Nigerians will have some spare family time to reflect on the fact that the power of democracy is always with the people, and that no matter how long it takes, the will of the majority shall always prevail.

ONCE upon a time there was a man – a man inexorably admired and treated as a demigod by this generation and the next generation for his accurate, ingenious transcendental bulldozer political moves in IYC and for his accurate deadly blows rhetorically delivered a priori against governors notorious for infrastructural strangulation of Delta Ijaws.   This Torugbene-born man in Burutu Local Government Area of Delta State, the proprietor and Commander-General of the ingeniously radicalised juggernaut he has purposely built to powderise the political machinery of any blundering governor in the territories geographically demarcated Ijaw territories by his own special cartographers imported from unknown western countries, was called Pereotubo Roland Oweilaemi at birth but after many years of creative perfection of his two proverbial policies, he is now called Barrister Pereotubo Roland Oweilaemi, the uncrowned president II of Ijaw Youth Council whose battered tenure is still struggling to acquire the outgrowth-status in the shrubbery.

On the radio was a sensational headline being read out by the anchor person, notwithstanding, Abians were more interested in the main issue. I dialed the station’s number some couple of times before a voice echoed that I should go ahead and add my voice to the trending issue. At first, I mustered few words despite all my efforts to get hooked to the Newspaper reviewer.

Seven years ago, I took an official trip to Kenya to represent the firm I worked for at the maiden edition of Airtel International Partners Conference. As soon as I walked out of the arrival hall at Jomo Kenyatta International Airport, I earnestly began to look for place to charge my phone in order to make a call to my host.

Sometime in May, 1993, another rally of the Social Democratic Party, SDP just ended at about 7.45pm in Oshogbo, Osun State. The June 12, 1993 election was few weeks away. The political correspondents from Tribune, Sketch, Third Eye and Vanguard checked into the hotel reserved for them as usual. This has become a routine for us, as I was the Vanguard correspondent attached to the SDP South West zone. The campaigns were zoned with the party’s zonal leaders leading, and sometime the Presidential Candidate, Bashorun MKO Abiola will be present.

How can a contractor who lives in Warri, construct an NDDC road in Warri that could not last for three months?

Speaker Delta State House of Assembly,   Rt Hon Sheriff Oborevwori (JP) MNIM, my mentor and boss of all bosses is a year older today. 

There has been nothing in recent memory like the build up to Nigeria’s first match at the on-going 2018 FIFA World Cup tournament in Russia.