WE are barely three weeks from the Presidential/National Assembly (Senate and House of Representatives) election and another two weeks after, there will be the Governorship/State House of Assembly elections. The closeness of the elections this season has resulted in various tactics to win votes. One troubling approach is the use of religion and ethnocentrism by various candidates.

IN this season of high wire political campaigns and effusions in the media the following intervention has become necessary if only as a means of helping readers whose minds are daily inundated with diverse political sentiments by persons and groups jostling to make impressions in their hearts and so get them to buy into and support the ideas they are espousing.

FOR those who have a profound appreciation of power and its most penetrating insight as well, the fact of the matter, as the Italians once succinctly put it, is that power cannot be wrested no matter the paradigm one uses without certain attributes by the group or individual that jockeys after it. Popularized as the […]

THE end of 2014 brought the conclusion of the African Union’s Year of Agriculture and Food Security. But most Africans work in some aspect of agriculture, and for them, every year is dedicated to agriculture and food security.

NIGERIAN military has accumulated years of successful war campaigns both within and outside the shores of our country.They prevailed in the Nigerian three years civil war against Biafra from 1966 to 1970, and kept Nigeria one.

AS political hawks of Nigeria hover about and around in their bid to grab power to, perhaps, enable them as usual, to loot the nation’s wealth rather than serve the interest of the people, anyone who grew up during the struggle for independence, is bound to lament over what has been happening in the country for a long time now.

ON August 30, 1962, the Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago, Dr. Eric in a message to the youths of the nation at independence said: “To youth tender and loving hands the future of the nation is entrusted. In your innocent hearts, the pride of the nation is enshrined. On your scholastic development, the salvation of the nation is development.

URHOBO is the largest ethnic group in Delta State which homogenically occupies a senatorial district, parts of Delta south and Bayelsa State. Urhobo are industrious, accommodative, culturally sensitive and proud of their heritage. In the First Republic, the Urhobo supported NCNC in alliance with NPC, against Chief Alfred Rewane, a disciple of Awolowo’s Action Group, […]

World leader in Communications and technology and services, Ericsson yesterday signed a Memorandum of Understanding, (MUo ) with Government of Republic of Rwanda on smart Rwanda project.

MY presidential ambition is not worth the blood of any Nigerian.”So said President Goodluck Jonathan before the 2011 presidential ballot. To this day, he has continued to reiterate his pacifist message.

TO the memories of our founding fathers and the visionary leadership of Alhaji Tafawa Balewa, February 17, 1966 remains a landmark date for all of us.

LAST week, all the Local Government Areas chairmen and chairwomen celebrated their first 100days in office, the first of the kind for Delta State under Governor Emmanuel Uduaghan’s eight years on the saddle.

NIGERIANS are found all over the world. We must be one of the greatest migratory people on planet earth. Added to this is our acclaimed intelligence in almost every field of human endeavour; for there is always a Nigerian ranking very high up in one field or the other somewhere in the world. Unfortunately,inspite of this truth, the perception is that we have used our intelligence more on the negative than the positive.

NIGERIA’S body-politick is currently befuddled by a cacophonous preponderance of Boko Haram’s insurgency, Niger Delta militancy, politicians’ s kullduggery, psychotically corrupt leadership, hate speeches, military interlopers, economic bastardisation, INEC’s tergiversation, grandiloquent poverty and Buhariánd Jonathans ventriloquism. Can any nation remain as one united sovereign and indivisible body with these kinds of protean contretemps? NO!

ONE would naturally feel proud to share the same Alma Matar with the All Progressives Congress (APC) gubernatorial candidate for Lagos State, Akinwunmi Akinbode. It is even double in our case because we were not only school mates at the Federal Government College, Warri but also at the University of Lagos, where he was my senior.