Category: Analysis & opinion

A Nation And Her Uniformed Men

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By Sunny Awhefeada   Nigeria’s uniformed men are many. From riffle wielding military men in green, blue and white uniforms, depending on the service arm, to bribe eating policemen in black uniforms, to conniving prison warders, potbellied customs and immigrations officials, devious road safety men, overzealous hunters and vigilantes, unruly road transport workers and multifarious traffic control organizations, our uniformed men are legion! They are many and they are let loose on the length and breadth of our besieged country. They confront us everywhere and anywhere we turn, at home,…

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Delta State Is Not The Strongest Financial State In Nigeria As Claim By Tilije- NDC

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A pressure group under the aegis of New Delta Coalition, NDC, has faulted the claims by the Delta State Commissioner for Finance, Dr Fidelis Tilije that Delta State is the strongest financial state in Nigeria.     The group in a statement issued and signed by Godwin Anaughe, on behalf of New Delta Coalition, held that the he claim made by Delta State Commissioner for Finance, Chief Fidelis Tilije, that Delta State is the strongest financial state in Nigeria, is a blatant falsehood.   According to the statement, “This egregious…

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NED NWOKO: HOW NOT TO LOSE SELF ESTEEM

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By Zik Gbemre   The manner Sen Ned Nwoko is prosecuting his political harlotry in joining the bandwagon defection to federal ruling APC is leaving me wondering if something, somebody or group who don’t mean well have suddenly not maliciously reformatted the brains of the supposedly articulate chief campaigner for  Anioma State. After all the hype about his Anioma state campaign which I supported wholeheartedly because of its implication to the state of rest of Delta post Anioma creation, Ned Nwoko should be worried why despite defecting to APC, his…

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NED NWOKO: HOW NOT TO LOSE SELF ESTEEM

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By Zik Gbemre     The manner Sen Ned Nwoko is prosecuting his political harlotry in joining the bandwagon defection to federal ruling APC is leaving me wondering if something, somebody or group who don’t mean well have suddenly not maliciously reformatted the brains of the supposedly articulate chief campaigner for  Anioma State. To use his defection as a guise to intensify his ethnic discrimination against incumbent Governor Sheriff Oborevwori is, to say the least, disgusting, so reproachable, going by the trending utterances attributed to him. Yes, some may be…

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Ned Nwoko; A Case of Good Riddance To Bad Rubbish

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  By: Bayagbon Daniel   Those who underrated Governor Sheriff Oborevwori in the past were all taken aback with star projects spread across the state without noise.   Haven seen the steel he ( Gov Sheriff ) is made of, still yearning to do MORE, those who previously underrated him are now licking their wounds shamelessly in severe pain seeing his outstanding performance; they wished he failed but were disappointed.   Governor Sheriff only SIN was attending to the yearnings of Deltans, by way of raising the bar of good…

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UZOR: DELTA CHIEF PEACE BREACHER MASQUERADING AS CHIEF PEACEMAKER 

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By Zik Gbemre,     From his Asaba comfort zone, self acclaimed Delta State Chief Peacemaker, Chief Edwin Uzor, watched like spectator as Governor Oborevwori’s political officeholders from Okpare Olomu attempted to set the Ughelli South LGA community on implosion in defiance of the community constitution and manipulation of government institutions.   He was aware and consented when political officeholders from Okpare Town induced a community tyrant and some elders to compromise due process enshrined in the community constitution to appropriate community lands to selves.   Uzor was aware when,…

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We Are Looking for the Doctors By Sunny Awhefeada

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By Sunny Awhefeada   Brigadier Sani Abacha, as he then was, it was who announced the 31 December 1983 putsch that torpedoed the ill-fated government of Alhaji Shehu Usman Aliyu Shagari and sounded the death knell for the second republic. An unforgettable line in Abacha’s coup speech was that our hospitals had become “mere consulting clinics”. That criticism of our public health sector was a searing indictment of the failure of government in that sector. Although, the speech pointed to a negation of the purpose of government, we must realize…

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Soludo’s Sermon By Sunny Awhefeada

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By Sunny Awhefeada   I do not know the last time Professor Chukwuma Soludo, the Governor of Anambra State, had the opportunity of teaching in the classroom. I surmise that it must have been more than twenty years ago before he escaped from the austere classrooms at Nsukka to join the government of former President Olusegun Obasanjo as Chief Economic Adviser and later becoming the Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria. The great teacher that he is, Soludo loves to talk and whenever he had the opportunity to do…

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GOVERNMENT INSENSITIVITY TO THE PLIGHT OF OKUAMA PEOPLE SO INCITING

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By Zik Gbemre   The piteous conditions residents of Okuama, Ughelli South LGA community of Delta state now live upon return from the Ewu IDP Camp after being displaced for months attest to the gross insensitivity of the Delta state government to theirs. The Abraham Ogbodo led Camp Management Committee indicated the camp opened 27th May 2024 had to be shut in December 31st of the same year after nearly over 15,000 claimed IDP population had left for their ancestral homeland at the start of a new farming season. When…

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WHY NIGER DELTANS DO NOT WANT TO BE PART OF BIAFRA

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By H.E Goodluck Jonathan Former President of Nigeria, Goodluck Jonathan yesterday delivered a lecture at Texas US on why remaining indivisible with Nigeria than joining forces with Biafrans in splitting the country will pay Niger Deltans more. I begin this write-up by saying that I mean no ill-thought towards the Biafran struggle or Igbos in general. What I’ve written here are mainly my personal reflections concerning the Niger Delta, especially with regards to non-Igbo groups and their stake in the Biafran movement which has been rebirthed for some time now.…

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