By REUBEN ABATI Dear Nnamdi Kanu, We have never met. I only know you by reputation and I have had cause in the last year to write on your activities within the public arena and offer my own views about…
Category: Features
THE FIELD NEGRO AND THE HOUSE NEGRO
By Chukwubudike Ugbaja. In the USA, in the days of physical slavery there were two kinds of negro slaves: the field negro and the house negro, also referred to as “field niggas” and “house niggas”. While the field niggas worked…
NGO BILL, THE TOXIC BILL
By Chidi Odinkalu Nigeria’s House of Representatives is presently considering what perhaps qualifies as the most dangerous piece of legislation to come before the National Assembly since the return of civilian rule in 1999. It is the NGO Regulation Bill…
GOV LALONG: COSMETIC OR GENUINE PEACE
Peace is a relative term. It does not mean just absence of war. It has different layers. Societal peace, that’s the general peace among people when there is no intergroup or intra group war or crisis. Individual peace; that’s when…
GOV. WIKE AND THE UN AWARD
The centre-piece of Governor Wike’s development programs have been to improve the living conditions of Rivers people, by developing infrastructure that will enhance their living standards in communities where everyone will be proud to live in. The actualization of the…
THE BLOOD OF THE IGBOS AND THE 2019 AGENDA
By Rev Father Felix Uche Akam To the dead, those who received on our behalf the death brought to our doorsteps with a code name, Operation Egwu Eke II (Python Dance II), I say rest in Peace. You will not…
LEGAL EXPOSITION: LANDLORD VERSUS TENANT
By Emmanuel Okonkwo One of the basics of life is Shelter – where to lay your head. And for all average persons (or affluent persons who prefer to stay in a rented apartment for whatsoever economic reasons), one of the…
RESTRUCTURING: TASK EL-RUFAI PANEL MUST NOT BUNGLE FOR APC
By Dr. Olukayode Ajulo When, lately, Nobel laureate Professor Wole Soyinka slammed former President Olusegun Obasanjo for trivializing the agitations of Nigerians on restructuring of the country, it only showed the keen interests by some Nigerians on necessity for reorganization…
NUHU RIBADU’S TWELVE POINTS TO NIGERIAN POLITICIANS
By Esievoadje Oghenetega 1. Leadership is essential. Leadership at all levels should be beyond reproach to provide the needed example. There should also be the will to apply the sanctions. As I have pointed out several times, lack of will…
ASO ROCK 2019: WHY IBRAHIM DANKWAMBO IS AN OPTION
By Esievoadje Oghenetega One thing about the Nigerian media is that they only focus their attention on Governors and leaders in the south, in most cases hyping and overrating some of the southern Governors when doing their ratings and rankings,…