By Henry Ayanruoh DURING  one of the religious crises in the North, one of our national leaders asked: How did we become so careless and so uncaring to have allowed our senses to be so insidiously deadened by the rhetorics of short-sighted little men who make us accept as normal carnage and exploitation which once […]

By Gab Ejuwa LEADERS  are revered throughout the world. One obvious reason is that as senior citizens, they are believed to be richly endowed with wisdom; people who possess  the exceptional privilege of being able to speak words of truth  without fear or favour; people who are impartial and incorruptible; people whose conducts are above […]

By Ignatius Orisewezie THIS game called politics is a race for popularity in which citizens enthrone those they can trust. And the trust is earned like the father’s love. As Robert Frost said, you have to earn and deserve your father’s love but not that of your mother.

By  Suffy Ainofenokhai I AM also bold to affirm with absolute sincerity and conviction that the 2007 and 2009 elections are the most consistent, the clearest and the fairest ever conducted in this terrain.

By Ifeatu Agbu THE current armed conflict [some call it war] in the Niger Delta is an unnecessary distraction that is neither in the interest of the Federal Government nor the people of the region that have endured many decades of neglect and deprivation.