Opinion Corner

While the whole world denounces these hunger, poverty, human rights violations, killings of hundreds and thousands, among them children and women, the leaders of today still continue with their misleading propaganda; ‘we are fighting to protect the country.’ In all of these humiliation and intimidation, Dino Melaye is the winner and those persecuting him are the losers for a tormentor …

By Louis Odion, FNGE Abuja disease is a peculiar affliction in Nigerian politics. It refers to the tendency of an actor with otherwise modest endowment or from humble station to transmute to a monstrous creature once he/she enters the nation’s capital and begins to frequent the power circles. Intoxicated by a new false sense of identity, such upstart does not …

The supreme irony of our national tragedy is that we are uniquely blessed with selfish and vain leaders. The gang piloting Nigeria since creation day swarms with conceited and ultra-corrupt leaders who serve the masses rotten pottage in a potty while they gobble “isi ewu” in golden chinaware and down exotic wines in diamond chalice. We’re worse than slaves. We, …

More than any government in our republican history, this government has been the slowest to act on matters that require urgent government attention. It cannot continue like this merely because a few privileged people have formed a vanguard of blame-him-not around President Buhari. They are definitely not helping Nigeria but themselves. Let me remind all such persons of the proverb …

By Osaze Edigin The business of representation and lawmaking is too expensive to be left in the hands of those who know nothing more than self, political leaders and the governor’s agenda actualization. Activists over the years have left their core place in an arm of government which is the legislature to charlatans and political jobbers, the legislature is a …

By Louis Odion, FNGE It was typical of punctilious Godwin Obaseki to assume that mere appeal to reason – this pious invocation of the spirit of good neighborliness – would be enough to rein in the Barbarians arriving Edo’s ancient gate. But as he seemed to have realized with regret at the weekend after yet another hand-wringing visitation to the …

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 …