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Okuama: When Political Blame Ignores the Constitution, Fuels Blackmail

By Ufuoma Egbe The tragedy of Okuama has left deep wounds. Families have lost loved ones, a community has suffered devastation, and several Okuama leaders have remained in detention for an agonising period. Their plight deserves justice, compassion and sustained public attention. But precisely because the tragedy is so painful, it must not become an […]
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Okowa: Verdict of Deltans, one year after

What has Governor Ifeanyi Okowa done differently to foster development in Delta State within one year in office? By way of gauging public feeling in the state about this I decided to move around to interact with Deltans.

Umahi, Fulani herdsmen and the Igbo

THE trending episodes of the gruesome activities of Fulani herdsmen in some parts of the country have become disturbing and terrifying. They have no doubt reawakened the need for Nigerians to be security conscious at all times.

Stemming political violence in Edo

IN the past few days, Edo State has been in the political news for very obvious reasons. As the September 10 governorship election draws nearer, the political firmament of the State is charged.

Makpa Malla and the struggle for local govt autonomy

IN a landmark judgement by Justice Abdulfatai of the Lagos state high court, the erudite judged unequivocally declared that no governor was empowered by the constitution to take over the administration of local governments through sole administrators or caretaker committees

Independent Kurdistan for Peace and Co-existence

Today most experts agree that the current state system in the Middle East that has been created since World War One is not sustainable. For almost one hundred years, the state system delivered massacres, genocides, deportations, global discrimination, and poverty for Kurdistan. In addition,

Emefiele and the economic crisis burden

LET us assume I do not like Mr. Godwin Emefiele, the governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN). Let us also assume that I believe every public officer in Nigeria deserves nothing but abuse, name-calling and scandalisation.

Fulani herdsmen and others

THE delicate nature of Nigeria was brought to the fore after the election of Goodluck Jonathan to the Presidency in year 2011, when some of us vowed not to allow a so called infidel to rule them and promised to make the nation ungovernable for him.

Subsidy removal and its aftermath

HERE we go again. President Muhammadu Buhari’s, PMB, government like so many others before it has done what others have done. Remove fuel subsidy. Usually as this event happens, there is protestation.

Politics of fuel subsidy

ONCE again, the issue of fuel subsidy has come to the crucible of socio-economic life of Nigerians. Politics of fuel subsidy withdrawal has been a recurring issue over the years, from the time of General Yakubu Gowon as head of state. No government has come without harassing and intimidating Nigerians with fuel pump price increase and/or complete removal of fuel subsidy, otherwise called deregulation

Amendment of NLNG Act: Right step

THE current debate following the Public Hearing on the proposed Amendment to the NLNG Act, to enable it begin to pay three percent of its total annual revenue to the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC), makes interesting reading.

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