Opinion

APPLAUSE AS BARRISTER EMEKA MGBUDEM TAKES OVER AT THE MINISTRY OF PETROLEUM RESOURCES AND NATURAL GAS DEVELOPMENT TO REPOSITION THE SECTOR. By Dr. Engr. Odo Ijere One of the New Commissioners that was engaged by the 3R government of His Excellency, Senator Hope Odidika Uzodimma on the 29th of April, 2024 is the Nwangele born, Isu clan, Imo illustrious son and mega businessman, Barrister Emeka Mgbudem who was appointed to man the Petroleum and Natutal Gas Ministry in Imo State. Barrister Emeka Mgbudem is an erudite corporate lawyer and private sector player who founded Owen Chambers based in Victoria Island,…

Orji Uzor Kalu: From Humble Beginning To A Global Galaxy,  Putting The Records Straight   Emmanuel Odoemelam, Abuja Right from his days at Government College Umuahia (GCU) known as the Eton of the East, Kalu has been a leader who has demonstrated courage, resilience, punctuality, and strong character in dealing with people. Kalu started his Secondary School education at Eziama High School, Aba, and switched to the renowned Government College Umuahia where he was referred to as "Labour Ke" an industrious student who is more of a workaholic, who gets his assignments and academics done right on time. Despite being…

Yahaya Bello’s EFCC Comeuppance By Farooq A. Kperogi I am not from Kogi State, but I have strong opinions on former Kogi State governor Yahaya Bello—as most Nigerians do. There is no doubt that few politicians in Nigeria are as universally reviled and despised as Yahaya Bello because of how he turned governance into a violent infant play, denuded it of even the faintest pretense to sanity and respectability, and developed an uncanny capacity to incite raw rage in people. That’s why there is mass excitement in Nigeria over his current travails with the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission. Most…

My last encounter with Okwadike by HRH Eze Amb. David Kingston Okey-Dede I became close to Okwadike, His Exeellency Dr Chukwuemeka Ezife moment I started attending Eminent Elders Consultative Forum meeting which he Okwadike was the chairman gradually we became friends with numerous visits to his home and in one of my visit to his house on October 2023 to inform him about my upcoming Offala Festival which supposed to hold on the last Saturday of November but latter rescheduled to Saturday 2nd December 2023, that day he asked that I should come upstairs and we sat at the barcony…

BBC, Betta Edu, and Her Ministry of Corruption, By Farooq A. Kperogi By Farooq A. Kperogi The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) aroused the rage of Nigerians this week when it revealed in its periodic newsletter called “EFCC Alert” (which it shared with news organizations on Monday) that it had recovered up to 30 billion naira of the money allegedly stolen by suspended Humanitarian and Poverty Alleviation minister Betta Edu. The rage wasn’t directed at the EFCC, of course. It was directed at Betta Edu for the deficiency of morality it must take for her to steal that much…

Dr. Orji Uzor Kalu Never Owed Any Pensioner In The State As Governor  By Kelechi Nwankpa A retired civil servant from Obingwa, Abia State, sat in front of my radio, fuming with anger as he listened to the Commissioner for Finance make false claims about the payment of pension areas in the state. I couldn't believe what i was hearing. "I have to speak up," I thought to myself. "The truth must be told." I picked up my phone and dialed a local radio station, telling side of the story, he never owed us As i waited for the call…

Opinion: Stop Lying, We Know Who Introduced Religion, Ethnicity Politics in 2023 By Comr Amos Kalu The Presidency and his boys should wake up to their responsibility of fixing Nigeria and stop acting as if every Nigerian is blind because they are holding the helm of affairs on behalf of Nigerians. Gone are those days when they come up on National Dailies to twist our minds on realities of governance, no, today we are in the era of social media that doesn't easily forget as evidence always abounds for anyone interested in the truth to confirm it. It is a…

  By ILYASU GADU A couple of weeks ago I got a call from one of my readers in Lagos who wanted me to confirm rumours of a coup and reports of soldiers of the Brigade of Guards manning strategic places in the FCT. I told him, like all residents, that I saw the unusual presence of soldiers in the city and a couple of checkpoints, but that I could not say for sure if that indicated a coup scare. As he persisted in his inquiry, I advised him that either Major General Edward Buba of Defence Information or Major…

TINUBU'S CATACLYSMIC PRESIDENCY AND ITS MANY DANGER SIGNALS No one needs to be told that the nation of Nigeria has finally landed itself in a precipice of chaos and pandemonium. The danger signals are rife and undeniable. The lower limits of suffering has reached its irreducible minimum boundary conditions. Anything can snap and trigger the apocalypse long foretold and long awaited. We're indeed in real trouble. There is frustration everywhere now with the nation attaining its worst bedlam of crisis since constitutional democracy returned in 1999. The truth is that Tinubu's government was negotiated as a sinking ship where he…

The audacity of the personalities behind the politically motivated trial of the former Governor of Abia State, Orji Uzor Kalu speaks volumes on the increasing threat to undermine the rule of law, the tenets of democracy and delivery of justice. In December 2019, Mohammed Idris, then a judge of the Federal High Court in Lagos, (now a Justice of the Court of Appeal) sentenced Mr Kalu, to 12 years in prison for N7.1 billion fraud. The judge sentenced his co-defendant, Udeh Udeogu, to 10 years in jail despite the fact that all the witnesses testified in favour of Senator Orji…