The Itsekiri Moment
By Michael Tidi History occasionally presents a people with moments they cannot afford to waste. Such moments are often disguised as anniversaries, festivals and celebrations. They arrive with colour and pageantry, yet beneath the excitement lies a more enduring question: Will this generation merely celebrate its inheritance, or will it enlarge it? The Itsekiri nation has […]
Farm animals: Vital to secure Nigeria’s food future
NIGERIA has a good climate for farming and vast areas of farmland, yet it has a problem with food security. There are about 14 million farmers in Nigeria, mostly smallholders, producing about 80 percent of the country’s food supply.
Nigeria’s democracy: Institution founded on anti-Nigerian ideology
MY belief has always been … that wherever in this land any individual’s constitutional rights are being unjustly denied, it is the obligation of the Federal Government—at point of bayonet if necessary—to restore that individual’s constitutional rights (Ronald Reagan, 1983).
Towards a more effective United Nations
IRAN and North Korea are always in the news. If one is not being accused of building atomic bombs the other is being lambasted for developing intercontinental ballistic missiles.
That Anyaoku’s proposition about Edo governance
FORMER Secretary General of the Commonwealth, Chief Emeka Anyaoku, who chaired the ceremony of the Champion Newspapers 2011 Man of the Year Award, held recently in Lagos, is a man of gravitas and impact. He is an orator par excellence.
Anambra ahead of 2014
IN two years time, the office of the Governor of Anambra State will be vacant. By then Governor Peter Obi, now in his second term in office, would have spent eight years. A rare opportunity others before him never had.
