Government Officials Need Roads Too

By Moses Darah   The Success Ovie Ossai’s slogan of “Even a professor needs a skill” comes to mind as the agitation to draw Government’s attention to the deplorable condition of roads in Abraka gathers momentum. Majority of the government officials do not ply any other special route within Delta State. The kidnappers ambush both the poor and rich on the bad spots. At this moment, everyone should be concerned on the selfless movement of ‘ABRAKA NEEDS ROADS’, show support and stop antagonizing the actors. In a sane society, the…

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Analysis &Opinion: Is This Another Season Of Omen For Africa

By Sunny Awhefeada, J. P. Clark in one of his poems “Seasons of Omens” poetizes Nigeria’s first military coup which occurred on 15th January 1966. Deploying metaphors to adumbrate the tense political situation that led to that tragic episode in Nigerian history, Clark uses the tropes of parallelism and refrain to underscore the poem’s thematic preoccupation in the line, “Then came the five hunters” as well as the clincher “Then the five hunters struck”.   Observers of Nigerian history do not need the literary critic’s exposition to understand that the…

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