Opinion

BLACK MEN AND CHILD ABANDONMENT

Several years ago in Port-Harcourt the garden city and the capital city of the Nigerian petroleum industrial complex otherwise known as the “bread basket of Naija,” I was introduced to the Nigerian Television Authority NTA. In those days the...

DUMB NIGERIAN YOUTH … IN THEIR OWN WORDS

As expected, I met with a barrage of flak for my article “For Once, Let’s Blame Nigerian Youth” published in SaraReporters July 8 and in other Internet portals. Little minds are happy to stay stuck in little ruts, smugly resisting...

AND WE THE #MOB MOVED ON: #ABSURAPE REVISITED

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In 2011 the Nigerian social media erupted when the horrific gang rape video of a young lady surfaced online. The hour long video depicts a rape by at least 5 men and at a point she begs to be...

NIGERIA’S INDUSTRICIDE, AND THE ZEBRA CONFLICT

I happen to share offices in the same premises with one of the zonal offices of th Manufacturers Association of Nigeria (MAN). In the last 9 years they have not bought a newspaper or papers, nor journal, they do...

TAXATION AS CATALYST FOR DELTA RENAISSANCE

The ‘’Delta beyond Oil’’ policy thrust was conceptualised by the Executive Governor of Delta State, Dr. Emmanuel Eweta Uduaghan to reduce total dependance on oil revenue and to replace it with what the citizenry can do regarding governance and...

CHRISTIANITY HAS NO CLASS DISTINCTION (4)

V. The Annulling of Ethnic Distinctions: In the Bible there is another distinction between Greeks and Jews. The Jews re a very religious race, whereas the Greeks are a race that embraces philosophy and wisdom. Historically, when one speaks...

2015: THE WIN-WIN IN A NORTHERNER, JONATHAN NOT RUNNING

Last Monday, wisdom shouted from a hilltop in the North such that everyone would hear. But those who heard are dismissing it with a wave of the hand. Others who must react overlooked the wisdom and in its stead...

NYESOM WIKE AND OTHER JONATHAN’S CONFLICT ENTREPRENEURS

Professor Paul Collier of the Centre for the Study of African Economies at the University of Oxford is indeed an accomplished academic of global repute. However I have found myself sometimes disagreeing with some of his postulations. Nevertheless, there ...

RIVERS CRISIS: INJURIES OF A COMPROMISED MEDIA

Since the Rivers crisis became a major issue on the nation's political front burner, the worst victim has been the media. In this case, both the traditional and the online media. The main political gladiator, the embattled Rivers State...

THE PAINFUL DEATH OF 3 NUJ OFFICIALS

On the first Friday of August 2013, three officials of Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ) went the way of all flesh from a fatal auto crash. The road mishap that claimed the lives of the three journalists and left ten...