A couple of months ago, I resuscitated my series of weekly activities as a politician with my cousin’s history. The essence of the series is to comically deride some politicians who borrowed money from the bank to pay for Nomination forms to contest for PDP or APC Presidential ticket. Now the truth has come out as alleged that many who purchased the one million naira ticket were sponsored by Bola Tinubu and some by Abubarkar Atiku. That was evidently clear because the arrangement was that those who bought the Nomination…
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Unmasking Of The Unknown Gunmen
By Amby Uneze The popularization of the term “unknown gunmen” started in Imo State after the military were invited to Orlu in the wake of alleged fighting between security forces and the Eastern Security Network of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB). Before the invitation of the Nigerian military to that area by the State actors, Imo State was generally peaceful and there was no bloodletting which is now the order of the day. We recall that from 2011 to 2019, eight solid years of former governor Rochas Okorocha’s administration,…
Read More2023: Can Nigerian Youths Continue To Be Leaders Of Tomorrow?
By Uzorma Nathan I write this piece today in order to consolidate my conviction on my commitment to emancipate the youths from the political quackmire of politico-economic slavery and servitude occasioned by the greedy nature of the political class (our fathers) who have always referred to the youths of this country and Imo state in particular as leaders of tomorrow. Our tomorrow has refused to come and the youths have continued to watched with keen interest only to discover that the political wall-clock is still tickling anti-clockwise against them, this…
Read MoreMuslim-Muslim Presidency Ticket: This Will Not Stand
By Dr. Chuks Osuji A lot has been written and said on the subject of Muslim-Muslim President ticket. Although I have written on this disturbing issue, nobody can stop writing on the subject because it exposes those pretenders who argued that Muslim-Muslim ticket is normal. While I was about to write this article my attention was drawn to a post on my WhatsApp platform. It revealed a more disturbing fact about religious distributions of Nigerians in this country. Although the information was chilling, it showed vividly that in terms of…
Read MoreDeveloping New Culture Of Democracy In Nigeria
By Chuks Osuji Evidently, so many years ago, an American political scientist, Michael Huntington had opined that when a certain society begins to develop a new culture in its social, political and in any other aspect of the usual different culture, such a society is gradually approaching a social decay, and that the end of such a process, such society would then embrace a new culture in that societal life. Definitely, in all societies that have been accepted in culture of political culture known as Democracy is often described as…
Read MorePolitics, Assumptions, Sentiments And The Jagaban Style
By Kelly Diva POLITICS: All Progressives Congress, APC, the ruling party in Nigeria has finally chosen its Presidential candidate for the 2023 General election and he is no other than the Party’s leader , the fomer Governor of Lagos State , the Jagaban , Bola Ahmed Tinubu. I am going to pause here a-bit and re-direct my opinion piece to the South East politicians who had over the years clamoured for the Presidency . They have argued and justified for years why zoning the presidency to the South East was…
Read MoreThe Superiority Of Dollar At PDP Primary In Abuja
By Chuks Osuji There is no doubt that money changing hands in Nigerian’s Electoral System has been known as integral part of our elections. It is for this reason that Nigeria’s electoral system has been known as a system of the highest bidder. However, all along the practice which began in 1999, was initially restricted to vote buying at the polling centers. However, the entry of Alhaji Abubakar Atiku with the desperation to become Nigeria’s President, there has been gradual expansion and extension of such practice. The practice came to…
Read MoreNegative Effects Of Continued ASUU Strike
By Gerald Njoku It is incontrovertible to state that the continued ASUU strike in the country has placed the nation’s education system on a momentous crossroad. The recent extension of the warning strike by the leadership of the Academic Staff Union of Nigerian Universities (ASUU) by another twelve weeks has again dashed the hopes of parents, students and all stakeholders in the education system of the much anticipated resolution of the crisis between ASUU and the federal government. This crisis in the education system has continued to frustrate the ambitions…
Read MoreNorthern Nigeria; Safe for Igbos, Christians?
By Christian Akpunonu In retrospect, the sad memories of human carnage in the Northern parts of Nigeria sends rude shock and chill down ones nerves. The commemoration of ugly incidences like the Maithasinian riots, the Kaduna massacre,Sabo Ngeri Kano massacre and countless others will definitely pose a natural question as to whether the North is actually safe for soujourners.The chequered history of the Northern Nigeria is replete with ugly incidences of mass killings,arsons, kidnapping,terrorism and all sorts of violent criminality. This is the consequence of typical religious intolerance. The Islamic…
Read MoreOrlu Senate Big Shoe, Not For All Comers
Orlu Senatorial zone, otherwise Imo West Senatorial zone is the second largest Senatorial zone in Nigeria after Jigawa(a certain senatorial zone in Jigawa is 14 LG’s). It is made up of twelve Local Government areas namely: Nwangele, Orlu, Nkwerre, Isu, Njaba, Oru East, Oru West, Orsu, Ohaji/Egbema, Oguta, Ideato North and Ideato South. It is a sub state in a state almost as big as Ebonyi and Bayelsa states. The authochotonous inhabitants of Orlu zone are mainly sedentary farmers and traders. As civilization opened up especially through British colonialism,…
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