Ondo Ogun Festival: The biggest street carnival in Africa
By Yomisaint Adebayo Ancient tradition, modern spectacle and a sea of white and blue converge in Ondo City in a breathtaking celebration of heritage, love, peace and unity. There is a particular time of the year when Ondo City seems to remember itself. As August gives way to September and the signs of the annual […]
Real issues in the Niger Delta crisis
WHICH ever way you look at it, the root cause of the whole Niger Delta crisis is injustice. The truth will always come to light. The conspiracies of the old colonial masters, in tandem with the different international oil companies,IOCs, Shell, Mobil, Chevron, Total, Agip, etc and the activities of our dictatorial and uncaring federal government caused this situation we found ourselves, in not heeding to appeals for the basic rights of the minority oil producing nations,they have caused the manifestations of violent rebellions from the people. Isaac Boro started it in the ’60s and Ken Saro wiwa amplified it in the ’90s.
President Buhari’s Federal Excuses Council
On January 22, 2016, I tweeted a joke which went viral. I had said that at meetings of the Federal Executive Council, the minister of information, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, would address members and say ‘turn to your neighbour and say, neighbour have you blamed Jonathan today’!
Overcoming a legacy of bitterness: Gov Wike’s greatest challenge
THE selection of Barrister Nyesom Wike as the PDP’s ticket bearer for the 2015 gubernatorial contest was, without a doubt, one of the most bitterly contested decisions to have been taken by the party in Rivers State since the return to civilian rule in 1999. Apart from the fact that this choice went against conventional presumptions of regional power-sharing between the riverine and upland communities in the state, a substantial proportion of local political champions regarded it as having been imposed on the elite traditional structure of the state’s polity by a new generation of activists.
Tomorrow is dying
NORTHERN elders and the elite class have been quite vocal in the last couple of years, giving a louder voice to national issues, particularly that which affects their region. However, the sad reality is that they have focused on issues that massage the ego of the elite class and deepen the pockets of a selected few turning a blind eye on the more threatening issues eating up the region.
Enugu, truly in God’s hands
JUDGING from the impressive achievements of Governor Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi’s administration despite the present harsh economic situation in the country, the people of the state, friends and well-wishers have every reason to agree that “Enugu State is in the hands of God”.
