Any public officeholder who desires to reach and keep his place at the top of his political career must be prepared to do so the hard way. He must be determined to go the extra-mile to entrench good governance because in our today’s incredibly fast-moving world, giving reasons for non performance is no longer fashionable. […]
Opinion
2023 Countdown (5): PDP-G5 boastful, yet fearful
Twenty-seven days to the February 25 presidential election, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) hasn’t found a common ground with its five governors opposed to the National Chairman, Iyiorcha Ayu. The PDP-G5 – chaired by Benue State Governor Samuel Ortom, and headed by Rivers State Governor Nyesom Wike – have made Ayu’s resignation a condition for […]
Ayade’s reformatory strategy in education
A good and quality education lubricates the brain and mind and makes them profound, creative, imaginative and enterprising. When Governor Ben Ayade took over the reins of governance in Cross River State in 2015, he found that the educational system in the state was dysfunctional, broken, and in a mess. For example, he found to […]
Between Peter Obi and Tinubu’s mother
was scrolling through Twitter when I came across this post from @ChifeDr real name Dr. Aloy Chife. “I have a Ph.D. And I’m very proud to be called “Igbo trader” I will clean toilets if the money is good. Has decades of elevating work-shy little men into positions of power really turned us into arrogant […]
Potency of PVCs
T he trouble with Nigeria has festered beyond leadership failure as diagnosed in the early eighties by our late literary icon, Chinua Achebe. It now includes failure of followership. By failure of followership, I am pointing at the condemnation of both the shortcomings and excesses of leaders as well as the reluctance of the Nigerian […]
Peter Obi, South East and 2023 polls
When Pastor Paul Osaromen dropped a usual message to the nation about four years ago that the Igbo of Nigeria should prepare to take over the reign of leadership of the country after President Muhammadu Buhari, not many were too surprised. Yes, because any discerning mind knows that it was about time to give the […]
Atiku and Tinubu’s diagnoses/solutions to Igbo question (2)
Biafra War reparation against the Igbo was one of the worst war punishments ever recorded in modern history. Apart from the ‘twenty pound’ pauperization policy, the ethnic cleansing of the Igbo in South-South states of Rivers, Bayelsa, Cross River and Akwa Ibom by reason of the Abandoned Property Decree, 1970 and the glass ceiling on […]
Fallacious politics of 2023
A close friend and comrade recently asked me if I am Obedient, suggesting that I am supporting Mr. Peter Obi, the Presidential candidate of the Labour Party. To say the least, I was very dismayed that anyone could imagine I will support any candidate other than Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu. I may excuse any person […]
Nigerian electors and electoral matters
I t might sound weird or vague but the truth remains that there has been a continuous rape of the Nigeria’s electoral sphere, hence an urgent need to genuinely rescue the system. Democracy is simply a rule or leadership that involves the majority. In a wider description, it is a system of government in which […]
Between Peter Obi and Tinubu’s mother
Echi Anthony I was scrolling through Twitter when I came across this post from @ChifeDr real name Dr. Aloy Chife. “I have a Ph.D. And I’m very proud to be called “Igbo trader” I will clean toilets if the money is good. Has decades of elevating work-shy little men into positions of power really […]