By Greg Obioha The alleged food blockade by the North is mere road show that lacks basis to succeed. It is height of foolishness and delusion for those behind that jamboree to make any impact to cripple the south apart from ruining their own personal and corporate economy there in the north. Those food items from the north are products of strenuous farming activities and the funniest thing is that they are perishable and unprocessed items that could rotten if not sold and put to use through the end users,…
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WHY IGBOS SHOULD BE TRIBALISTIC
By Henry Chukwuka Tompolo, Ateke, Asari Dokubo and their Niger Delta Militants supposedly surrendered their arms to their arch enemy, Nigeria and cashed out in Millions. In 2016, Mr. Clark announced a sequel in the name of Niger Delta Avengers. Everybody hailed them. I remember in 2016 how everybody was rooting for them because we bought into their idea, which they say is justice. I can’t remember a single article from anybody from their region condemning their actions. I don’t recall a prominent Niger Deltan branding them terrorists and calling…
Read MoreInsecurity And Honesty Of Purpose
By Eze Onyekpere Nigeria is currently at a tipping point in its politics and security, a point from which any further descent will lead to a fatal crash, anarchy, and total collapse. We are at the tipping point in the sense that any further series of small negative occurrences, changes or incidents will become significant enough to cause more large scale and violent negative consequences. The drums of war have been brought to the public square and the sound can be heard from a long distance. Sadly, our leaders are…
Read MoreBuhari’s Niger Republic Development Agenda
By Bolaji O. Akinyemi Unofficial historical records claim that Muhammadu Buhari’s father was a poultry farmer from Niger Republic who came to settle in Northern Nigeria and eventually married a Kanuri Muslim from today’s Borno State. Muhammadu is therefore the 1st generation Nigeria citizen from the Buhari lineage. What a privilege for him to have become the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria within a generation! A parallel of some sort between Buhari and Obama! Though Obama visited Kenya a couple of times as the sitting president of the…
Read MoreLeast corrupt state: Yet another milestone for Imo State
It is a wonderful feeling pervading the length and breadth of Imo state currently. It is as if the people of the state are getting a double treat this Christmas season. The cheery news is the announcement recently that Imo State is the least corrupt state in the country. The affirmation is coming from no less a quarter than the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) working in partnership with the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) and UK AID. Imolites are much justified to feel a sense of…
Read MoreSocial Media Bill: Short walk to totalitarianism?
I have consistently tried to create levels of differentiation between democracy and dictatorship, especially dictatorships of the military variant as we have had in Nigeria. I have argued that Nigeria is still very far away from the goal posts of what could be called a democratic society. In my view, the environment does not as yet look anything democratic because the actors are largely strangers to the ethos of and what is more, too many of them are tied to the old order, not to talk of the fact that…
Read MoreImo: A harvest of intellectuals
Something extraordinary is sure brewing in the heartland of the southeast. It’s not about the Ahiajoku intellectual feast happening in Owerri in a week’s time, nay. It is not about the shellacking of the three musketeers at the Appeal Court, nope. It is about the intellectual harvest (or coup, if you like) wrought by Governor Emeka Ihedioha recently. While many who otherwise would have noticed the feat have been carried away by the inanities of a frivolous election litigation, Governor Ihedioha is pacing afield, seeking out the best minds wherever…
Read MoreThe arcana of statecraft
Disambiguating the above title, it simply means the secrets of running a government. You can also interpret it to mean the little things that matter the most in the art of governance; the essential, basic ingredients. Governance is an art of course as well as science and great leaders across history understand it is the small intangibles that add up to become the foundations for great monuments and beacons for lasting legacies. Paying attention to such fine details as the number of blocks to be derived from a bag of…
Read MoreUnmask masquerades behind Imo pension fraud, now
The word pension according to an English dictionary means a gratuity paid regularly as benefit, due to a person in consideration of past services, notably to one retired from service on account of retirement, disability or similar incidence, especially a regular stipend paid by the government to retired public officers. Almost all the countries of the world practice pension. There is no gain saying the fact that almost (if not all) cultures value old age and if one did not meet an untimely death, it will meet old age. It…
Read MoreFighting Poverty through Quality Representation: Ogbuagu’s Initiative
Poverty has remained endemic in Nigeria. The absence of the three basic needs of man, food, health and shelter culminates in extreme poverty. Ironically, these are also the three primary responsibilities of government. Successive governments in Nigeria have overtime played lip service to the issue of eradicating poverty. This perhaps, is the reason Nigeria has become the poverty capital of the world, overthrowing India. The June, 2019 report of the United Nations Development Program has it that over 98 million Nigerians are multi dimensionally poor, although the National Bureau of…
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