Can NDC Resolve Growing Concerns in Abia State Before 2027?
By Phillip Ogbonna As Nigeria gradually moves toward the 2027 general elections, political parties are expected to strengthen their internal structures, inspire confidence among their members, and present themselves as credible alternatives to the electorate. In Abia State, however, concerns are beginning to emerge within the Nigeria Democratic Congress (NDC), prompting important discussions about fairness, inclusiveness, […]
Fighting corruption and economic rescession
THE current economic crisis, an exposé on the predicted disabilities and inhuman dispositions of neo liberal policies, especially its role in developing economies just as it is in all sectors, seem to be one that will ignite, if it has not already ignited a revolt that will sure upturn global fortunes for the better.
Self-determination, Biafrans, and deluions
AFRICA has a glorious past. Before the advent of white imperialists , Africans had their own systems of government. We had the ancient Benin Kingdom, Oyo Empire, Ghana Empire, the reign of Mansa Musa in Mali, and others. In the pre-colonial lgboland, the cultural practices and norms of the people were embedded in their republicanism, which used to be their system of government. Achebe’s anthropological novels documented the historical past of the Igbo people
Again, Urhobos in political wilderness
OPENING this discuss with the word “again” means that similar situation happened before in the lives of the great people of the Urhobo Nation of the Niger Delta – talking of derailing from the road they should have passed and finding themselves in a turbulent “political wilderness”. The last time it happened, they remained like flock without shepherd for almost 25 years while only the creator of mankind can say with sure precision how long it will take them [in the wilderness] this time around before coming out of the woods.
From a Nigerian to Prof. Soyinka
BUT didn’t an erudite professor, renowned scholar, iconic playwright and social critic, who publicly threatened to destroy his document, however way it was acquired, over the outcome of a distant periodic election, he did not even vote and for which his interest is at best marginal, brutally assault common sense, that the rest of us, should be embarrassed to share the same nation space with him?
Music: Speech of angels
MUSIC is the art and science of rhythmic combination of tones, instruments and voices etc precipitating melodious and harmonious effusions that are pleasing to the ear and danceable etc. It carries with it a spiritual, sentimental, emotional and lachrymose FORCE. Music is also a protean and multidimensional WEAPON AND THERAPENTIC ELIXIR. Music is the ginger […]
