Let Nigerians judge Tinubu’s record
By EMMANUEL OKOTIE-EBOH There is a recurring habit in Nigerian politics that deserves serious reflection. Whenever a new president assumes office, Nigerians quickly begin to attribute almost every problem in the country to the occupant of Aso Rock. Roads, schools, hospitals, security, unemployment, electricity and even problems that constitutionally fall under state or local governments […]
Nigeria : A brother Jero Country?
Chinue Achebe and Wole Soyinka as prophets? Yes, they are, as the case may be. And they remain the best to prophesy what Nigeria is today. Who is saying this?
Okowa and conspiracy
When a candidate is competent and has performed well but discriminated because of his tribe or section he comes from, it breeds hatred and this is retrogressive
Delta 2019: Is APC working for the reelection of Okowa?
The All Progressives Congress, APC will be holding its governorship primaries on the 29th September, 2018. One state the ruling national party hopes to pick up in the 2019 general election is Delta State where the political environment strongly favours APC. With very low popularity of the incumbent PDP governor, Dr. IfeanyiOkowa and electorates clamouring for change, conditions are quite right for an APC victory in the state’s gubernatorial election.
As League of Nigerian Columnists berths today
More than a century ago, 1898 to be precise, the influential French sociologist, Gabriel Tarde, wrote that newspapers “both enriched and leveled … the conversations of individuals, even those who do not read papers but who, talking to those who do, are forced to follow the groove of their borrowed thoughts. One pen suffices to set off a thousand tongues.”
Revisiting the Bonny Bodo and bridges projects
PRESIDENT Yar’Adua, on assumption of office introduced the Amnesty Programme for Niger Delta militants, through which oil production returned to its pre-militancy level. There has been relative peace in the Niger Delta area since then. It is only in an environment of peace and harmony that development can take place. With an end to hostilities in Niger Delta Region, the Federal government embarked on massive road and infrastructural development projects in the area.
