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The unidentified problem of Nigeria: From forced migration to AUTOSUCOM Revolution (I) 

The unidentified problem of Nigeria: From forced migration to AUTOSUCOM Revolution (I) 

By Victor-Bandele Dada For more than six decades, Nigeria has debated its problems without ever adequately identifying the problem beneath the problems. Economists have diagnosed fiscal instability. Political scientists have examined institutional weakness. Sociologists have studied ethnic and religious fragmentation. Development specialists have focused on poverty, unemployment, food insecurity and human capital. Security analysts have examined […]
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The Ernest Ndukwe I know

The Ernest Ndukwe I know

MIKE Onuzulike, in a national newspaperof February 28, attempted a rebuttal of the facts contained in the article, “Ndukwe’s Burden of Misrepresentation”, earlier published in some national newspapers written by Chukwuka Odinaka.

Emerhor’s vision for Delta State

Emerhor’s vision for Delta State

ONE of the most salutory events in the ongoing electioneering frenzy in Delta State is the emergence of Olorogun O‘tega Emerhor as the governorship flagbearer of the All Progressives Congress (APC). Best known as a visionary and business angel who breathed life into companies and corporate entities that had gone comatose, Emerhor joined the Delta governorship race with a lofty vision to rework Delta State and make life meaningful for the people.

Christians and ethnic politics

Christians and ethnic politics

WE are barely three weeks from the Presidential/National Assembly (Senate and House of Representatives) election and another two weeks after, there will be the Governorship/State House of Assembly elections. The closeness of the elections this season has resulted in various tactics to win votes. One troubling approach is the use of religion and ethnocentrism by various candidates.

Understanding the Okowa essence in Delta

Understanding the Okowa essence in Delta

IN this season of high wire political campaigns and effusions in the media the following intervention has become necessary if only as a means of helping readers whose minds are daily inundated with diverse political sentiments by persons and groups jostling to make impressions in their hearts and so get them to buy into and support the ideas they are espousing.

Illiberality in an age of  conspiracy

Illiberality in an age of conspiracy

FOR those who have a profound appreciation of power and its most penetrating insight as well, the fact of the matter, as the Italians once succinctly put it, is that power cannot be wrested no matter the paradigm one uses without certain attributes by the group or individual that jockeys after it. Popularized as the […]