When the leadership of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, re-appointed the Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Ezenwo Wike as the chairman of the 17th August, 2016 National Convention Planning Committee, it was because the party needed a strong and dedicated political strategist with the right skills to weather the storm of the anti-denocratic antics of the ruling party.

Mr President Sir, l did promise last week when this subject was discussed to present “to you a simple but workable formula for the solution to this Niger Delta challenge”, with a caveat: ”if you are genuinely willing to make enduring history in Nigeria.” For now, l can only assume that you read part one of this open letter, and that is assuming that you are better than Olusegun Obasanjo, who admitted publicly, when he was President, that he never read Nigerian newspapers.

A Yoruba proverb says that one does not keep silent when something bad is going on because a house does not burn and fill the eyes with sleep.

The coordinated attack on the integrity and credibility of former President Goodluck Jonathan is unfortunate. That the same hastily cooked up lies were reported simultaneously and almost word for word by some known client media of the powers that be is evidence of the fact that someone powerful is out to get the former President.

he Nigerian Bar Association, NBA, has expressed concern over the state of the economy, saying Nigerians, especially lawyers are suffering under the present economic situation.

When I warned the Nigerian people about what the APC represented and that, if given power, they would be the most reactionary, repressive, vindictive, insensitive, vicious, thin-skinned, paranoid, divisive and, worse of all, incompetent government in the history of Nigeria no-one listened.

MEDIA reports about invasions of business premises by the taskforce of the Federal Inland Revenue Service, FIRS, could be worrisome. The enforcement exercise by the tax compliance team in shutting down tax-defaulting companies and ordering staff out of the premises is quite discouraging.

IT is not in doubt that President Muhammadu Buhari is a man with a clear vision of how best to administer a country like Nigeria. Not given to razzmatazz or needless bigotry, the President knows perfectly how to solve a seeming intractable problem without a fuss.

It is welcome news that Mr. Anjem Choudary, Britain’s “most hated man” and the radical British Islamist who pledged an oath of allegiance to the leader of ISIS, Amir Abubakar Al Baghdadi, has been jailed in the United Kingdom.

For over forty years, Chevron had been operating the Escravos terminal, shipping billions of dollars’ worth of crude oil to the United States; yet they are not prepared to develop the community whose Crude Oil wealth defines the mainstay of Nigerian economy.