Broad reflection on Izunaso’s thematic focus
By EMMANUEL ONWUBIKO When Senator Osita Bonaventure Izunaso returned to the National Assembly in 2023, more than three years ago, he came back to a Senate very different from the one he had previously known. Nigeria was confronting a worsening cost-of-living crisis. The naira was under pressure, and the foreign-exchange market was unsettled. Infrastructure deficits […]
John Abba Ogbodo: Death is a crafty thief
My brother, the Ogbodo One, it is still difficult to come to terms with what has become a sad reality. How could death have overpowered the one and only Ogbodo One- the enigmatic and energetic Ogbodo? Yes, the Good Son of the Good Man.
On Ogun PDP trail
WITH recent events suggesting troubling crises within the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in the South West, keen political observers would be kind to submit that the party is on tenterhooks.
Anenih: Modibbo Kawu’s regurgitations and tyranny
THE abandonment of ethics in the articulation of private fixations and resentment for Chief Tony Anenih was quite evident in Is’haq Modibbo Kawu’s column, entitled: “Anenih: The political dinosaur returns”, published on page 17 of Vanguard of Thursday, February 28, 2013. It was also published the same day on the back page of Blueprint newspapers, where Kawu is Chairman of Editorial Board.
The Challenges of the Nigerian Electric Power Sector Reform (2)
Part one of this article reviewed the history of liberalization of Nigeria’s electric power sector from 1896 to the present, noting that the capacity shortage nevertheless remains pervasive.
PDP BoT, Anenih and the tasks ahead
CHIEF Anthony Akhakon Anenih is “the man of the moment” in the politics of the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) by virtue of his emergence as Chair of the party’s Board of Trustees (BoT) at its (Board’s) last meeting held on Monday, February 25, 2013, in the Banquet Hall of the Aso Rock Presidential Villa in Abuja.
