HOW DID RIVERS STATE GET HERE?
By Sotonye Ijuye-Dagogo
This situation is shameful, disgraceful and annoying. It is brought upon us by a jester who dances naked all over the country, fighting injustice that exists only in his own imaginations.
Nigerian News Leader
First with details then facts
2023: WILL TINUBU BREAK THIS JINX?
By Bolanle Bolawole
As I lay me on my bed one morning reflecting on happenings around the world, with particular reference to Nigeria, I could not but recall the official flagging off of the All Progressives Congress presidential candidate, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s campaign in Jos, the capital of Plateau state, on Tuesday, November 15, 2022, 30 years after another Yoruba son and icon, MKO Abiola, had dramatically also flagged off his own campaign for the country’s top job on the platform of his party, the Social Democratic Party (SDP), in the same tin city. Abiola ran a very popular and robust campaign and it was no surprise that he won by a landslide in all parts of Nigeria, except in Igbo land, whose people voted for Abiola’s opponent, Bashir Tofa from Kano State but whose running mate, Sylvester Ugoh, was Igbo from Imo state. True, then, is the saying that blood is thicker than water! That most unfortunate tribalism of the Igbo, however, took no shine off Abiola’s triumph as the 1993 presidential election remains a watershed, as historians would call it, in the history of elections in Nigeria. It was the freest and fairest as well as the most peaceful ever. Abiola’s mandate was pan-Nigerian in that, even in Igboland, he met the constitutional requirement of at least 25 percent of the lawful votes cast in most, if not all, of the eastern states. Abiola’s election was also unique in the sense that it was a Muslim-Muslim (MM) ticket; his running mate, Babagana Kingibe, from Borno State, being also a Muslim. Notwithstanding, Abiola won handsomely in many Christian-dominated areas.
I WANT TO BE LIKE BUHARI
By Barr. Ezugwu Okike
The late story teller, Chinua Achebe, was very consistent in calling himself and contemporaries, the members of a lucky generation. As he travelled the world and lectured, he kept saying it. That was consistent with the Achebe character. He was a very modest and honest man. The more general attitude of mankind is to shake things out of the ordinary. The first man who travelled to Onisha from Nsukka returned and told his kinsmen that every route to Onitsha was tortuous and long. They gathered and admiringly looked upon him as a fabulous adventurer. He did not want another person to undertake the journey and return to render his accomplishment commonplace. Achebe would not do that. He would have told his kinsmen that Onitsha was not that far and that the journey was easy.
HOW NOT TO REDESIGN THE NAIRA
By Hassan Gimba
Among the reasons given by the Central Bank of Nigeria governor, Mr. Godwin Emefiele, for the redesigning of the ₦200, ₦500 and ₦1000 notes is that there is some ₦3.2 trillion in circulation out of which 2.7 trillion is outside the banking system. The assumption is that those stupendous amounts outside could be proceeds of crime - corruption, kidnappings, robbery, etc., and so they would cease to be legal tender since the owners would not take them to the banks for fear of being found out.
YOBE STATE GOV, MAI MALA BUNI, A GENTLEMAN, QUINTESSENTIAL DEMOCRAT AT 55
By Mamman Mohammed
“Some are born great, some achieve greatness and some have greatness thrust upon them” -William Shakespeare.
For those who have been close to, or have interacted closely with, Yobe State Governor, Honourable Mai Mala Buni, CON, it is very convincing to assume that the famous 17th century English playwright, William Shakespeare, had Buni in mind while writing the play “Twelfth Night”.
GOV WIKE'S EXECUTIVE ORDERS IN RIVERS STATE, AN AFFRONT ON ELECTORAL ACT....Charles Harry
- * Says Rivers Electorates Will Uproot PDP's Impunity In 2023
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'Accord Party, Popular With The People'
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Endorses Dumo Lulu-Briggs (DLB) As Right Man For The Job
By Celestine Okafor (Editor-in-Chief) @CelestineOkaf11
Foremost Niger Delta activist and top-rate organic intellectual, Alatubo Charles Piriye Harry, has appraised the political developments in his State, Rivers, in the past 23 years, and projects that the people's power at the polling booths, will overthrow the impunity culture and sub-standard governance which has allegedly characterized the oil-rich state since the dawn of democracy in 1999.
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