Opinion

2019: Why APC May Crash In Delta Again

An African adage has it that, from the way the chimpanzee walks, you will discover without much labour, that, it’s not a happy creature. In like manner, the current posturing of the nation, following a four years waiting for the promised ‘change’ and excruciating poverty that followed, one may afterwards not need a prophecy to situate that, like

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National Opinion

The Niger Delta Question and 2030 Sustainable Agenda

For the 2030 sustainable agenda to succeed, says the United Nations, partnership and collaboration must be given a disciplined attention. This world body further stated that the scale and ambition of this agenda calls for smart partnerships, collaborations, ecosystem thinking, co-creation and alignment of various intervention efforts by the public and private sectors and civil society. While

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National Opinion

Niger Delta Amnesty Programme: Time For Game Change

The recent appointment by President Muhammadu Buhari of Professor Charles Quaker-Dokubo as the new Special Adviser to the President on Niger Delta Affairs and Co-ordinator of the Presidential Niger Delta Amnesty Programme (NDAP) qualifies as a dispensation with significant promise to change the Niger Delta story for the better. Coming to drive the programme from

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Opinion

Ekanpou Enewaridideke: That Pele We Know

Over the years variegated theories have been created and bandied about Pele the rare prodigy of erudition, Pele the hysterical lover of PELECENTRIC image-mangling narratives on prominent sons and daughters of Ijaw – theories ideated to give believable verdict on the anatomy of this young man who serially sees himself as a loose cannon deliriously

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Opinion

Beyond The Waters: Gbaramatu, Kingdom Of Hope

Sailing through the rugged waters of the Niger Delta, one would wonder if anything good can ever come out of these waters. The riverine Niger Delta is dominated by the various Ijaw communities and Kingdoms whose prominent occupations are farming and fishing, with no visible development around them. One would rightly wonder how they have been

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Opinion

WARRI CRISIS: The Truth, The Whole Truth, and Nothing But, The Truth

The Itsekiri Survival Movement (ITSURMOV) in their various internet press releases claimed to own Warri sans the provision of any substantive proof. These sporadic, but subtle claims embedded in the body of their messages and the constant footnote reminders of ownership of Warri, that accompany each of their publication, are in our opinion, a shrewd

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Opinion

Opinion: Prof. Wole Soyinka is ‘Dead’

In Soyinka, the man has died. Soyinka is 'dead'! And I mourn him.

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