By Frank Tietie As I write, leaders of Okuama, an Urhobo community in Delta State, remain in detention without formal charges nearly two years after their arrest over allegations linking them to the tragic killing of soldiers of the Nigerian Army during the conflict between Okuama (Urhobo) and Okoloba (Ijaw). In March 2024, Okuama came […]
Oshiomhole: Akpabio keeps selling himself as a leader who prefers partnership over division
By Rt Hon Eseme Eyiboh A recent video of Senator Adams Oshiomhole praising Senate President Godswill Akpabio has put the spotlight back on the 10th National Assembly. In the clip, Oshiomhole called Akpabio’s leadership exceptional. He said the Senate President has brought politicians from opposition parties into the APC without threats, pressure, or public fights. […]
MR PRESIDENT, HEED THE “MADMAN”
By Tunde Olusunle, PhDFellow, Association of Nigerian Authors, (FANA) If his utterances, actions and overall behaviour betray a certain psychological imbalance, he deserves to be genuinely understood and excused. By his own account, he has been on the battlefield for well over four years, much as he should have been reassigned to other duties and […]
South East Development Commission (SEDC): A Budget Defence That Sparked Regional Outrage
By Chukwudi George Ozalla Perspective The South East Development Commission (SEDC) was conceived as more than another federal agency. It was presented as a historic corrective, a long-awaited institutional answer to decades of neglect, structural imbalance and unresolved post-civil war wounds in Nigeria’s South East. For many, it symbolised the delayed fulfilment of the promise […]
When Party Supremacy Overrides Conscience: Defections, Democratic Drift and the Fragility of Nigeria’s Political Foundations
Perspective By Chukwudi George Ozalla I write this not as a spectator of Nigeria’s politics but as one deeply immersed in it. For years, I have interacted with elected officials. I have covered primaries where hope filled the air in the morning and disappointment settled by nightfall. I have monitored elections in tense communities where […]
