Opinion
Okorocha: Let history take care of Ohakim
Governor Rochas Ethelbert Anayo Okorocha must strongly believe that Imo citizens are people he could ride anyhow he pleases. Indeed, Imo citizens have given him that impression by stomaching all manner of indignities from the governor. How else can anybody ... Read More »
Ibeh deserves our encouragement
BY ROBERT OBIOHA At times, Nigeria is an unusual place to be. It has been described as the worst place for one to be a mother, an indictment on her high maternal mortality rate and poor ante-natal care. Her high ... Read More »
By law, Jonathan is serving his final term
There is a lot of misconception, even among lawyers, not to talk of laymen, regarding the position of President Goodluck Jonathan’s tenure vis-à-vis the 2015 election. While many people are putting pressure on the president to go ahead and contest ... Read More »
Slum dwellers and the President’s boy
For the second time in the life of this administration, a serving minister in the person of Mr. Godsday Orubebe has engaged in (apologies to late music legend – Fela Anikulapo Kuti ) a ‘roforofo’ fight (public spat) with other ... Read More »
Mystery of the floating corpses
If there are any doubts that Nigeria is a country in which horror walks on four legs, and life has no value at all, the latest report of 18 male corpses found floating in Ezu River in the border between ... Read More »
Reps: If this House must not fall (2)
WATCHING the spokespersons for the Senate and House of Representatives, Enyinnaya Abaribe and Victor Afam Ogene,fanatically defending the “zero allocation”to the Securities and Exchange Commission(SEC)in this year’s budget,even a half brain with one eye Read More »
The Leveson Inquiry Report, U.K.(2)
As far back as March 2002, the mobile phone of the dead, youthful Miss Milley Dowler, was hacked by somebody at the News of the World newspaper in London. The information extracted from the phone later provided material for the ... Read More »
Uneasy times are here again
Every nation under the heaven faces daunting challenges but genuine leadership strives in the face of these problems to find a better life for the citizens. As a younger man, I had always thought that the future would fast be ... Read More »
Pigs in politics
I really cannot discern “manor farm” from “Animal farm.” I cannot differentiate “Napoleon” from “Snowball.” Both men and pigs now work with two legs. I see pigs attempting to put on human faces, human clothes. I see pigs attempting to ... Read More »
Okorocha: A tentative assessment
The rescue mission administration of Governor Rochas Okorocha of Imo State is in its second year. Come May 29, 2013, the Okorocha regime will be marking its two years in office. Since his emergence as the helmsman in Douglas House, ... Read More »
