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 […]
Nigeria’s unemployment cancer
I ATTENDED the last District Conference of Rotary International District 9140 recently. A team of Argentine nationals led by Rotarian Ricardo Cravero, a chemical engineer, was at the Conference as Group Study Exchange, GSE, and they lectured Rotarians on some salient issues about Argentina.
No to Radio Biafra in exile
NEWS report has it that a clandestine Radio Biafra Station has been established to broadcast from London. According to the Director of the Radio Station, the reason for the resuscitation of the radio station is to “set a largely misinformed public free from the twin evil of tyrannical rule of a cabal of ill-educated and institutionally corrupt men and women and the sponsored sectarian killings directed against Christian Southerners living in Northern Nigeria”.
NOSDRA and the intrigues of Oronsaye’s report
ONE of the most intractable environmental challenges confronting Nigeria is the oil pollution through incessant spillages arising from oil exploration in the country.
Asaba Summit:The wisdom in Azazi’s holistic view
WHEN the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, argues that it is the biggest and most democratic party in Nigeria, that is not easily identifiable with any ethnic group in Nigeria, very few people can argue against that fact.
Terrorists at the gate
BOKO HARMA’S latest intrusion into the nation’s narrative– two improvised bombs peremptorily set off in the offices of a media house 150 kilometres apart, within the space of 40 minutes – plumbed new depths.
