How Gov. Oborevwori is putting Delta on a fiscal sustainable path
By Paul Odili The recent report of paying down the legacy debt from N463 billion to N63 billion is a commendable feat of financal prudence by Gov. Sheriff Oborevwori’s administration in three years. I don’t know how many states in Nigeria have been able to achieve such level of fiscal success, amidst infrastructure transformation of […]
Governor Obi’s twilight days at Awka
Whatever has a beginning surely has an end. While the end could be accentuated by the coloration of the beginning, the exactness of the summation varies according to the level of compliance of the interacting agents in a consistently changing time.
God has not forsaken you
God today has a word for you that will encourage you and strengthen you to hold on to Him because He is not through with blessing you just yet.
The Amnesty Conundrum: A northern problem
Rev. Chris Okotie’s analysis of the amnesty request by Northern leaders in an Article titled, ‘’The Boko Haram Amnesty Conundrum” published in the Sunday Vanguard of April 20, 2013 laid bare the mischief behind the comparison of the amnesty granted the Niger Delta militants and the strident call for same for the Islamists by leaders of the beleaguered region.
Between the Delta State govt and Shell
THAT Shell Petroleum Development Company, SPDC, is a major stakeholder, player and partaker in the petroleum industry remains a cardinal fact. Shell is synonymous with the petroleum industry in Nigeria. It is the initium-et-finis and the locus classicus of the petroleum industry and it constitutes the structural matrix on which the petroleum sector and subsectors lie.
My writings and Dr. Okonjo-Iweala (2)
MAYBE I should add here that during the President Olusegun Obasanjo administration in which Dr. Okonjo-Iweala was also an influential member, I wrote some critical opinion articles on the activities of the President, Vice President Atiku Abubakar, Nasir el-Rufai, Mrs. Oby Ezekwesili, and the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, among others. During the short-lived administration of President Umaru Yar’Adua, I x-rayed some of the President’s policies and those of Segun Adeniyi, his spokesman.
