Still on Oshiomhole’s spat with Minister of Works
By SUNNY IKHIOYA David Umahi is an intelligent man, and everyone can see this from his interactions, especially as they concern construction engineering, but how he manages to get into trouble with people, including the press, is what keeps baffling people. He came in, hands on, prepared for the job, with his performance record in […]
Okorocha: Public Trust, Public Tears!
Governor Rochas Okorocha of Imo State recent yelling to the effect that no governor in Imo State’s history has either equaled or surpassed his records which enjoyed screaming headlines in the media has expectedly opened the Pandora’s box, triggering several questions: what informed this obvious misinformation, distortion of facts and awful attempts to re-write records of governance and public administration in Imo?
UPU: Taiga and the shame of Urhobos
OLOROGUN Moses Taiga, son of the respected Joseph Taiga Zeze, an Ijaw man from Kiagbodo who currently presents himself as a factional President General, PG, of the Urhobo Progressive Union recently recruited two mendacious surrogates, one Francis Ewherido and a politician by name Onokpasa, to gloss his history by trying vainly to re-write the patrilineal structure and nature of Urhobo society and history in their seperate articles titled: “Delta:season of omuru and umuta” and “why Taiga is solidly urhobo” .
Why June 12 is relevant to our nation
with the recent pronouncement of president Muhammadu Buhari, now every June 12, all Nigerians will have some spare family time to reflect on the fact that the power of democracy is always with the people, and that no matter how long it takes, the will of the majority shall always prevail.
The misunderstood Oweilaemi and Okowa-Otuaro
ONCE upon a time there was a man – a man inexorably admired and treated as a demigod by this generation and the next generation for his accurate, ingenious transcendental bulldozer political moves in IYC and for his accurate deadly blows rhetorically delivered a priori against governors notorious for infrastructural strangulation of Delta Ijaws. This Torugbene-born man in Burutu Local Government Area of Delta State, the proprietor and Commander-General of the ingeniously radicalised juggernaut he has purposely built to powderise the political machinery of any blundering governor in the territories geographically demarcated Ijaw territories by his own special cartographers imported from unknown western countries, was called Pereotubo Roland Oweilaemi at birth but after many years of creative perfection of his two proverbial policies, he is now called Barrister Pereotubo Roland Oweilaemi, the uncrowned president II of Ijaw Youth Council whose battered tenure is still struggling to acquire the outgrowth-status in the shrubbery.
Abia State: Where the silence of facts overcome the loudness of falsehood
On the radio was a sensational headline being read out by the anchor person, notwithstanding, Abians were more interested in the main issue. I dialed the station’s number some couple of times before a voice echoed that I should go ahead and add my voice to the trending issue. At first, I mustered few words despite all my efforts to get hooked to the Newspaper reviewer.
