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The Itsekiri Moment

By Michael Tidi History occasionally presents a people with moments they cannot afford to waste. Such moments are often disguised as anniversaries, festivals and celebrations. They arrive with colour and pageantry, yet beneath the excitement lies a more enduring question: Will this generation merely celebrate its inheritance, or will it enlarge it? The Itsekiri nation has […]
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Anambra: Offodile’s tirades

I READ with disappointment the position of my brother, Hon. Chudi Offodile over the situation of things in Awka vis-à-vis the Government of Mr. Peter Obi. It is in bad taste when some of our people deliberately chose to distort information. Is it a case of short sightedness or plain mischief?

Nnaji as a change agent

BEFORE me on my table as I am writing this short essay is a couple of media reports on the signing on July 4 , 2012, of a Memorandum of Understanding, MOU, between the Ministry of Power and Daewoo Construction and Electrical on ways Daewoo could help generate 10,000MW in Nigeria, with the South Korean engineering giant taking up 20 per cent equity in new plants.

Telecoms: When lawmaking endangers industry progress

WHERE does somebody begin this story – the story of the Nigerian Communications Commission, NCC, and the National Environmental Standard Regulatory Agency, NESREA, which festered for a time before medications became expedient?

The system criminalises us

I WAS driving in my private car along Nnebisi Road, Asaba and got to the Federal Medical Centre Roundabout where there was the ubiquitous police checkpoint in those dark old days.

Abia and re-opening of Aba NNPC depot

THE recent re-opening of the Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, depot atAba,AbiaState is a landmark achievement and welcome development, especially for the residents of the commercial city ofAba and its environs who have suffered for long due to its closure some years ago as result of insecurity, bunkering and pipeline vandalism.

Fast-tracking development in the Niger Delta

BEFORE now, poverty, illiteracy and high rate of criminal activities ranging from militancy, piracy, armed robbery, oil pipeline vandalism and incessant attack on oil pipeline and platforms were the order of the day in the Niger Delta region.

What is Obi @ 51?

YESTERDAY, the Governor of Anambra State, Mr. Peter Obi was 51, but he loathes celebrations, especially when they have epicurean dimension. He would rather preach to you on the futility of presenting to him a gold wrist watch worth millions of Naira when such an amount would equally buy some computers that when donated to schools, will help in moulding the young ones.

Re: No deal between Labour, Govt: PHCN not threatened

OUR attention has been drawn to page 42 of your publication, Vanguard, of Thursday July 12, 2012 on the above subject matter. We wish to assure all Nigerians including PHCN workers that the PHCN Privatisation faces no threat from PHCN workers. The transaction is very much on course as the privatisation of the Successor Companies of PHCN holds great promise for sustainable economic growth and development in our country.

Anambra and Gov Obi’s make believe govt(2)

THIS is justification could be likened to the decision of the Obasanjo Presidency at the twilight of his second tenure to award the repair of Onitsha-Owerri road to a local contractor, RCC at about N25 billion against a quote by Julius Berger to the tune of N55 billion.

Anambra and Gov Obi’s make-believe govt

ONE would have thought that Governor Peter Obi of Anambra State had, to the best of his ability, laboriouslyand exhaustively, responded to the contentious issues raised by the diminutive former Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, Mallam Nasir el-Rufai, on the Governor’s budgetary projections and intentions for Anambra State.

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