Category: Opinion/Editorial

Rivers Rerun: The Imperative of Magnus Abe’s Return To Senate, Why His Victory Is Not Negotiable, By Eze Chukwuemeka Eze

PREAMBLE On March 28th, 2015 the people of Rivers State and Nigerians in general trooped out to elect a new President, Senators and members of the Federal House of Representatives. We all know what happened in Rivers State, where agents of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) maimed and killed over 100 All Progressives Congress (APC)…

I have watched and read with enormous interest the ongoing debate on the introduction of speed limiters for commercial drivers in Nigeria and I must confess that the augments both for and against its implementation are clear hints that Nigeria’s road safety is still travelling on a long route of seeming undefined destination. On the…

Fellow Nigerians, something melodramatic occurred some days ago in Doha, Qatar, United Arab Emirates, where President Muhammadu Buhari dropped a bombshell inadvertently. And what was the matter? The President in his usual candour and uncommon honesty announced that one of his major campaign promises was no longer feasible and practicable; the plan to pay unemployed…