Opinion

Anayochukwu Rochas Okorocha has just got reelected as governor of the South Eastern heartland of Imo state for another four year tenure. He has been in the saddle as governor since 2011. In the last four years the performance of...

We cannot afford to fail again on generation of electricity to homes and industries in Nigeria. But we certainly need a new approach without dislocating the enormous investments made by previous governments. A good example is how affordable cell...

The politics of fuel ignited the downfall of President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan. The politics of fuel will ultimately ignite the success or failure of the second coming of Gen. Muhammadu Buhari (rtd).   Perhaps the defeat of Jonathan in the March...

A friend narrated what he saw in a one of the videos of xenophobic attacks currently going on in South Africa.   Here him, ‘’I saw a crowd charging at a white vehicle. In the crowd were youths,men and women and...

Long before the tectonic plates of Nigeria’s political architecture shifted in favour of the progressives’ camp as represented by the All Progressives Congress (APC), George Akume, who served as Governor of Benue State from 1999 to 2007 under the...

If there is one word to capture with precision the political situation in the most important black nation, Nigeria, it has to be transition. Yes, for the past sixteen years that the country returned to civil rule, the Peoples...

Truth be said, it is in the interest of national inclusiveness and pragmatic politics that the number three position in the country remains in the North Central as the jostle for the Senate Presidency ramps up. Let me explain. Nigeria...

Dr. Goodluck Jonathan is the first Nigerian President to lose an election. It is a strange phenomenon in this clime given the fact that the system has always assisted an incumbent to win. This is referred to as incumbency factor. Much...

In June 2010, America’s President Barack Hussein Obama sacked a senior military commander named General Stanley McChrystal. At the time, General McChrystal was the commander of American and North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) forces in Afghanistan.   What was the respected...

Since Monday the 20th of April, 2015 there has been no electricity supply at the University of Uyo Teaching Hospital (UUTH), Uyo, Akwa Ibom State. The avoidable blackout has completely hindered all medical services which are electricity dependent. With...