Okuama: When Political Blame Ignores the Constitution, Fuels Blackmail
By Ufuoma Egbe The tragedy of Okuama has left deep wounds. Families have lost loved ones, a community has suffered devastation, and several Okuama leaders have remained in detention for an agonising period. Their plight deserves justice, compassion and sustained public attention. But precisely because the tragedy is so painful, it must not become an […]
Demolition of Abonnema and other water front communities
ON Tuesday and Wednesday June 26 and 27, 2012, the government of Rivers State mobilized some earth-moving equipment to Abonnema Wharf to demolish all houses and destroy property, thereby rendering a community of about 10,000 people homeless. Men, women, children were under heavy rain with their property.
Rising to the humanitarian challenges in lower Plateau
AS the impact of global climate change tends to manifest in different forms, flood which is one of the resultant effect has continued to wreak havoc in many communities.
Oil and gas in Africa: Boom or doom?
WHEN oil was first discovered in Oloibiri, Bayelsa State of Nigeria in 1956, there was jubilation not only in the then Eastern Region of Nigeria but all over the country.
Warri North where water is gold
POLOBUBOR-as the indigenes would prefer to call it- is the largest Ijaw settlement in Warri North LGA. This sprawling community, albeit rustic, is located in the thickest of the Benin River mangroves.
The US, China and Africa
As usual, the largely symbolic and valedictory 11-day tour of 10 African states, by the US Secretary of State, Mrs Hillary Clinton grabbed headlines and prime airtime on major media outlets across the continent. Mrs Clinton, ostensibly on her last tour of Africa as Secretary of State, delivered pulsating messages.
