PERSPECTIVE – Heroes of a blighted nation
By Owei Lakemfa Femi Soyinka, Professor of Medicine may not be known much outside the medical field or outside the university system where he taught for thirty years. Certainly, he was known in the world…
Category: Features
PERSPECTIVE – Okowa is not a traitor, and did not betray anybody; the traitors and betrayers know themselves
By MSD The Movement for Stronger Delta MSD, has read with deep concern and utmost disappointment, the growing, yet unprovoked and obviously ill-timed, ill-intentioned, and ill-directed castigations of Governor Ifeanyi Okowa for accepting the…
PERSPECTIVE – Nigeria’s presidential flag-bearers and the road to 2023
By Abiodun Komolafe The _Independent National Electoral Commission_ (INEC)-monitored party presidential primary elections have come and gone and, as the saying goes, the rest is history! With various candidates pushing private agenda, diverse groups’ interests…
PERSPECTIVE – Stop terrorists’ influx into Nigeria
By Tola Adeniyi Buoyed by the spectacular achievement of Major-General Muhammadu Buhari in his rabid drive of the undisguised Fulanization Agenda, 16 countries where the pastoral Fulani could be found were emboldened to gather in…
PERSPECTIVE – Crisis looms as impunity grows within APC
By Etim Etim About eight months to the general elections, APC seems to be waltzing into another wave of crises that may hinder its electoral chances in many constituencies across the country. The arbitrary…
ATIKU’S VP NOMINATION: YOU ARE A TRAITOR, SOUTHERN, MIDDLE BELT LEADERS BERATE GOVERNOR OKOWA
STATEMENT BY SOUTHERN & MIDDLE BELT LEADERS’ FORUM, SMBLF (17-06-2022) The Southern and Middle Belt Leaders’ Forum (SMBLF) has berated the Governor of Delta State, Senator Dr. Ifeanyi Okowa for accepting his nomination as Vice…
PERSPECTIVE – Belgium, too arrogant to apologise for killing 15 million Congolese
By Owei Lakemfa Belgian King Philippe, Queen Mathilde and Prime Minister Alexander De Croo paid a six-day visit to the Democratic Republic of Congo, DRC, from June 7, 2022 on what should have been a…
PERSPECTIVE – Who wins Osun governorship election?
By Abiodun Komolafe In 2018, I wrote a piece on the then governorship candidates of the leading political parties in Osun State. In the article, entitled _‘Osun: Picturing into the future’_ (The Nation, September 18,…
To my people of Ndokwa and Deltans, by Ochor
"I understand that for sometimes now the social media had been filled with struggle for the office of Deputy Governor of Delta State, come 2023, with my name and other sons of Ndokwa nation being…
Burning fuel tanker: Okowa, NUJ commend driver for heroic deed
Governor Ifeanyi Okowa of Delta and the state Council of Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ) have commended Mr Ejiro Otarigho, driver of the petroleum truck that exploded at Agbarho, Ughelli North Local Government Area, on…