Opinion Corner

When 73 people were killed in Benue State in early January, the Minister of Defence, Mansur Dan-Ali, briefed State House correspondents, after a meeting of the security chiefs with President Muhammadu Buhari, and gave the government position on the reasons for the continuous attacks by the herdsmen. He said: “Whatever crisis that happened at any time, there has to be …

BEING A SPEECH BY THE REV DAVID UGOLOR ON THE OCASSION OF HIS INAUGURAL LECTURE SERIES AT THE CONSTANTIAL HOTEL, BENIN CITY EDO STATE NIGERIA, 5TH FEBRUARY, 2018 Protocol Your Excellency, the Deputy Governor of Edo State, Rt. Hon. (Comrade) Philip Shaibu, The Secretary to the Edo State Government, Barr. Osarodion Ogie The Chief of Staff to the Edo State …

Being Text of a Lecture Delivered by Dr. Sam Amadi at the Reverend David Ugolor Inaugural Public Lecture Series on Monday, February 5, 2018 at the Constantial Hotel, Benin, Edo State, Nigeria   Let me thank God for the lives of our comrade and brother, Reverend David Ugolor, who is celebrating 48 years of God’s blessings and mercy. David has …

By Desmond Agbama It was late music maestro Sunny Okosun of blessed memory who sang a song titled: “Which way Nigeria,” and that song has remained even more relevant and meaningful in the present day Nigeria, due to recent reports about missing thirty-six million naira and seventy million naira respectively. Nigeria is a country where corruption has reached its zenith …

By Louis Odion, FNGE A dialogue imaginatively ascribed to what would ordinarily pass as an innocuous photograph from a routine official event opens perhaps the best aperture on the festering culture of political degeneracy. (The author of the mischief that trended in the social media is understandably anonymous.) Face lit up with his trademark fawning smile, Rochas Okorocha is shown …

By Louis Odion, FNGE As the second week of Lent opened last week, the mostly Catholic folks of Odiguetue community could not have envisaged murder and mayhem while in a solemn pursuit of the state of grace riding the steed of faith. But how mistaken they were; the ecumenical sobriety invoked by days of dedicated fasting would be shattered by …

Edo State House of Assembly’s recent rejection of financial autonomy marks a new low ground in the on going legislative imperialism of State Assemblies in Nigeria. Executive expansion of dominance and exploitation of the weaker legislature has eroded the sense of placement inherent in the practice of separation of powers characteristic of modern democracy. The unequal exchange of perks of …

How can a government that takes the likes of Amaechi seriously be taken seriously by the rest of humanity? Who were those in PDP that caused that Party credibility problems? Were they from Jupiter? Most of those men and women are right in bed with this regime. It is not surprising that they are gradually afflicting the government with their …

By Erasmus Ikhide The damning verdict that Africa Continent has regressed terribly in the 21st century in every respect in modern memory has come to stay. African Union (AU) leadership in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia made more worsening mistakes which further dampen the thinning hope for a better future for the continent. The fraudulent honor done on President Muhammadu Buhari as …

By Erasmus Ikhide Nigerians and the global community are unsettled with the compromising silence of President Muhammadu Buhari and the Nigerian traditional media over the repatriation of $73.3, which forms part of the Malabu oil deal. This is mainly one of the reasons President Buhari’s circuit show of anti-graft gambit has been overwhelmingly submerged in total condemnation. Quite condescendingly, Mr. …