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Kingsley Chinda: The man with the requisite experience

By Glory Wobo  When a tough task is to be undertaken, a person with the required experience is normally chosen to lead the group that will undertake that task. Primodial sentiments are kept aside,  while choosing the leader, if the task at hand is to be done speedily and efficiently.  Therefore, the choice of Kingsley Ogundu […]
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Leave Suswam alone, please

By  David  Ihalo IT is not so difficult to put one’s fingers on the objective reason for the clandestine attempts by people from some quarters to denigrate the achievements of Governor Gabriel Suswam of Benue State.

Umeh speaks, but not about that N250m

By  Afam Ofomata EMEKA ETIABA has been very busy with his state-wide consultations involving all stakeholders who are now beginning to accept his message of delivering a befitting state capital in Awka, committing our security votes towards fighting crime in the state, overhaul of primary and secondary health care in the state, returning back to […]

Save us from LASTMA, Police …Commercial drivers cry out

By Bose Adebayo A commercial bus took off from Oshodi heading for Tollgate. On getting to Ikeja, it was stopped by met a team of police men who demanded for the usual N100 settlement, from the driver who promptly paid. This was repeated when the bus approached Abule-Egba as the driver once again parted with […]

Yar’Adua’s presidency @ 2

His humble mien, simplicity, listening disposition, non-combative body language and above all practice of his servant leadership mantra, soon disarmed many hitherto disillusioned stakeholders and endeared him to others.

Education as important corner stone in Delta State

From public statement it was learnt that the government asked the Nwaka committee to come up with a comprehensive list of eminent people of Delta across the 25 local government areas, who will mentor schools in their respective communities.

Niger Delta youths: Criminals, militants or freedom fighters

By Henry Ayanruoh DURING  one of the religious crises in the North, one of our national leaders asked: How did we become so careless and so uncaring to have allowed our senses to be so insidiously deadened by the rhetorics of short-sighted little men who make us accept as normal carnage and exploitation which once […]

Democracy @ 10: Nigerians remember MKO

By Gab Ejuwa LEADERS  are revered throughout the world. One obvious reason is that as senior citizens, they are believed to be richly endowed with wisdom; people who possess  the exceptional privilege of being able to speak words of truth  without fear or favour; people who are impartial and incorruptible; people whose conducts are above […]

Obi and mandate revalidation

By Ignatius Orisewezie THIS game called politics is a race for popularity in which citizens enthrone those they can trust. And the trust is earned like the father’s love. As Robert Frost said, you have to earn and deserve your father’s love but not that of your mother.

Ekiti elections: Oni’s imperative questions

By  Suffy Ainofenokhai I AM also bold to affirm with absolute sincerity and conviction that the 2007 and 2009 elections are the most consistent, the clearest and the fairest ever conducted in this terrain.

Niger Delta war: Master plan to the rescue

By Ifeatu Agbu THE current armed conflict [some call it war] in the Niger Delta is an unnecessary distraction that is neither in the interest of the Federal Government nor the people of the region that have endured many decades of neglect and deprivation.

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