The tirade early this week by the Minister of state for Budget and National Planning Mr. Clement Agba, on the 36 Governors, where he blamed them for the rising poverty index in the country comes to the Nigeria Governors’ Forum as a surprise. The Minister got his message totally...
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By GODWIN ATSER – On 01 November 2011, history was made— a little-known son of Africa would take over perhaps the largest agricultural research institute on the African Continent. That person was Dr. Emmanuel Nteranya Sanginga, who would become the first African-born Director General of the International Institute of...
OMOLARA ORESANYA – Between now and May 29, 2023, President Muhammadu Buhari is presented with a rare opportunity to bequeath what many Nigerians consider his best two legacies, to wit: Free and fair elections and a credible national census. Analysts have argued that while Buhari may have fared well...
Politicians in Nigeria are often described as shameless people; hardly displaying integrity and common-sense. They are used to swallowing their vomit, again and again. Even those who display a bit of principles, are still called unprintable names; because when they are canvassing for votes, they exhibit desperation and forget...
When the late Professor Dora Nkem Akunyili happened in the ecosystem of the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) as the agency’s Director General in 2001 and served for eight years, her performance hugely validated her choice. She made both her recommender, General Muhammadu Buhari...
The National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) has stirred an unnecessary storm and in the process may have scored an inconsequential victory. Last week, the NBS revised the definition of poverty by shifting from the now proverbial living on $2 a day to something called “multidimensional poverty”. This has unsettled...
As part of our media plans towards Professor Zulum’s re-election, insha’Allah, we have been working behind the scene, to implement a syndicated multimedia plan (combining TV, Radio, Newspapers, online and Social-Media) within a timeline, that should, insha’Allah, start on 1st January, 2023 and run till the March Governorship. Our...
Mr. Hassan had been living abroad for over two decades. When he made some money, he felt the need to have the property back home. Then, he talked about it with his brother. For one year, Mr. Hassan sent a lot of money to his brother based on the...
As far back as 1905, the Spanish philosopher George Santayana in his work, The Life of Reason, made the eternal aphorism: “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” This simply means that people who do not learn from the mistakes of the past are going...
Those who are aspiring to lead the country should learn strategic communication and campaign initiatives from Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, the candidate of the All Progressives’ Congress-APC. His campaigns have been most strategic, issue-based, sector-specific, and all-encompassing in both content and delivery. He takes his campaigns to his target...
By OSE UMUKORO It is now obvious that some politicians in Nigeria prefer the gutter of infamy to the hallway of integrity and honour. If not, how do you place the blatant lies and obvious misrepresentations by Nyesom Wike, governor of Rivers; Adams Oshiomhole, former APC Chairman and Ovie...
Over the weekend, the good people of Delta State and, indeed, many Nigerians were assaulted with the vile propaganda that is the stock-in-trade of the All Progressives Congress. Addressing a press conference, Senator Ovie Omo-Agege, the APC governorship candidate for Delta State launched a tirade against the Governor of...
A few years ago, Mr. Ranti bought a piece of land somewhere in Lagos. He didn’t buy it to develop it, rather, to resell it. The cost of that land then was 500 thousand naira. And he waited for a few years because he knew how land rapidly appreciates....
Gong by information at the public domain, a Warri , Delta state based Newspaper, GbaramatuVoice, in furtherance of its Niger Delta Economic Discourse Series, will on Tuesday, November 29, 2022 by 10am, at the BON Hotel, Warri, Delta state, hold a focused group discussion that centers on two separate...
Church and Distinguished members of the Synod, I am greatly honoured to be here on this occasion of your historic, sacred and hallowed chambers of your synod. On behalf of my Running Mate Senator Ifeanyi Arthur Okowa, the Governor of Delta State and our party the Peoples Democratic Party...
“I am thoroughly embarrassed about the level of hostility being exhibited by our brother and friend Prof Charles Soludo towards Peter Obi. He cannot claim to be self made. People like us participated in making him. I was Pro-Chancellor and Chairman of Council at the University of Nigeria when...
On Wednesday, November 9, 2022, a former member of the Senate of the Federal Republic of Nigeria from 1999 to 2007, Ifeanyi Godwin Araraume, approached a Federal High Court in Abuja, with a suit challenging his removal as non-executive chairman, Board of the newly-incorporated Nigerian National Petroleum Company (NNPC)...
“Quos Deus vult perdere, prius dementat” Soludo is at it again. He has said that Peter Obi is not having the chance to win the 2023 Presidential election Soludo, we all know, is obsessed with attention-seeking and saying fictitious things from time to time. Once he feels he has...
By SUNNY IGBOANUGO – Last month or so, Chris Ngige, Minister of Labour and Employment, was on Politics Today, the popular current affairs programme on Channels Television. There, his host, had asked him a direct question about his choice between Asiwaju Ahmed Bola Tinubu of the All Progressives Congress...
The menace of drug abuse and trafficking present a grave danger to the nation. There is a nexus between drug trafficking on one hand and organised crimes such as terrorism, kidnapping and money laundering. It has been a major dent on the nation’s image. Unfortunately, Nigeria is afflicted by...