Giving honour to whom honour is due”, may be the most appropriate way to describe the grandstanding manner in which the Akwa Ibom state government has chosen to celebrate the former governor of the state, His Excellency, Obong (Arc) Victor Bassey Attah, who will be 80 years on Tuesday, November 20, 2018. According to a release signed by the commissioner for Information and Strategy, Mr. Charles Udoh, there are a number of activities lined-up to mark this epochal event. 

My attention has been drawn to the fact that the Muhammadu Buhari Campaign Organization has been established to have plagiarized their campaign agenda and logo titled Next Level, from a thesis authored by on Kelly Costner, an Associate Professor of Winthrop University in South Carolina, USA. What will Garba Shehu, Audu Ogbeh say against Atiku? […]

The era of fake news is here again. I recalled I jumped out of my seat when the House of Representatives Committee on Emergency and Disaster Preparedness stated that the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) abandoned about 6,779metric tons of rice donated by the Chinese government for distribution to Internally Displaced Persons in the North East.


In the Art of War, famous Chinese war veteran, Sun Tzu  said; “The General is the safeguard of the state. If the safeguard is complete, the state is surely strong. If the safeguard is flawed, the state is surely weak…He looks upon the troops as his children. Thus they can venture into deep river valleys with him. He looks upon the troops as his beloved sons. Thus they can die together with.”

One of the greatest and terrible fallouts from the rise of Trumpism is the penchant for the cloning and replication of copycats across the globe, individuals that are deluded enough to believe they can replicate the wonder of rising from relative obscurity to winning elections. The tragedy is that some of them are succeeding. Trumpism, […]