Intelligence is the grandfather of successful military operations
By Oluseyi Petinrin Students of military operations, including its planning and execution, know that intelligence is the grandfather of most successful operations. But it is a fact that is not immediately obvious to many members of the public and even to some that have spent years in the military establishments. The ORIRE kidnap victims’ release […]
Election 2015: Before the cookie crumbles
IF any one prophesied to APC kingpins of ‘Change’ this time last December, that they would still be involved in planning to win the 2015 elections,by end of February this year, they would have responded with ‘get thee behind me Satan’ to such a prophecy. But as we say in typical pidgin English: ‘cunning man die, cunning man buri am’. The Igbos say that you cannot be taller than me and the same time shorter than me.
Delta and the Uvwiamughe Declaration
AFTER reading the interview of Francis Ehwerido in the Vanguard of ThursdayFebruary 19 2015 on the unending controversy surrounding the Uvwiamughe Declaration (Delta: Where the UPU erred), I could not but conclude that the Delta State governorship race has inadvertently been reduced to a one-horse race, instead of the three-horse race it is expected to be.
Checking State Assembly legislative excesses
THE recent happenings in the Ebonyi State House of Assembly needs to be examined critically because of its political and constitutional implication and the danger it poses to the principles of separation of power as contained in the 1999 constitution as amended under our nascent democratic dispensation.
Okowa’s ‘SMART’agenda and a sustainable Delta?
“A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way and shows the way”.– John C. Maxwell DELTA STATE has been described as a mini-Nigeria. This assertion stems from the fact that she is endowed with five major ethnic groups with divergent nationalities but similar culture and traditions. The Aniomas are mostly Ibo- speaking […]
Between Jonathan and Buhari (1)
SOMEONE recently placed on the table an impossible proposition. She said to do a comparative analysis of President Goodluck Jonathan and General Muhammadu Buhari! Among her interlocutors, the suggestion instantly elicited an argument. How does one compare day and night? Is not the former resplendent light and the latter pitch darkness?
