Category: Opinion

By Alabi Williams The political crisis in Rivers State seemed like a child’s play when the inventors first tested the waters. It has now snowballed into a matter of national concern. President Bola Tinubu is concerned. Rivers State people, owners of the mandate politicians have recklessly abused since 1999 are beginning to demand accountability. All […]

Every year, Christians celebrate the birth of Jesus of Nazareth as the event in which God decisively intervened in the affairs of the world by uniting the human race to himself. But while Christmas is a time to celebrate, the profound lessons that the story of Christmas offers must not be lost on Christians who […]

Rivers State Governor Siminalayi Fubara By Obasi Igwe Continued from yesterday Only Talbot imagined partial Ijaw connection – initially: “The people of Bonny … are a mixed Ibo-Ijaw race, the Ibo portion is said to have come down from Azumini several hundred years ago and…intermarried with the earlier Ijaw settlers.” Talbot afterwards discovered: “According to […]

Henry Alfred Kissinger, the renowned United States diplomat, passed on last month, leaving the world with mixed reactions borne out of diverse characteristics of his person. Kissinger, a political scientist, geopolitical consultant, politician, and author lived for a century. That he was an outstanding intellectual is an undisputed fact. It was in the field of […]

By Tunde Odesola Out, out, brief candle! And the bard died. Darkness descended. The soul departed the body in a final shuttle, shuffling off this mortal coil, to be heard no more but his legacy lives on, Sikiru Ayinde Barrister (MFR). Unlike Fuji music, whose originator, Barrister, battled lifelong to assert his kingship, Jùjú music […]

By Obasi Igwe Peace happily returned to Rivers, Ijaw nationalists having precipitately weighed in for Fubara, turning party affairs ethnic, and leaving Wike with barely feeble support. Rivers State is a contrivance emphasising power over harmonious development, another expression of a flawed Nigerian structure awaiting statesmanly healing, hopefully under a modern democratic secular state of equal […]

Photo: INEC News Reported incidents of electoral malpractices during the recent off-season governorship polls in Bayelsa, Imo, and Kogi states further attested to the pervasive nature of orchestrated infractions which regrettably has become an undesirable feature of elections in Nigeria. More disturbing however is that electoral offenders are getting more emboldened; owing to impunity exhibited […]

By Niran Adedokun President Bola Tinubu’s latest intervention in the political imbroglio in River State is statesmanlike. No president of Tinubu’s political stature and sagacity would sit comfortably and watch a frontline state like Rivers go up in flames. This is not just due to the state’s economic significance but also to the potential impact […]

• L-R: Nigerian striker, Victor Osimhen; CAF president, Patrice Motsepe, and Super Falcons forward Asisat Oshoala during the awards in Marrakech, Morocco …on Monday. Photo: CAF NIGERIA’S uninspiring football administrators should seize the platform presented by the individual awards handed out by the Confederation of African Football to three Nigerians in the 2023 ceremonies to […]

THE revelation by the World Health Organisation that Nigeria and four other countries contributed to the five million new cases of malaria in the world from 2020 to 2022 demonstrates the stark reality that much more efforts are required to stamp out the disease in the country. The Minister of Health and Social Welfare, Ali […]