Opinion

People often underestimate the power of their individual vote during elections. Most people have the errornous believe that it is a good volume of votes is what secures victory in an election, but always fail to consider the fact that just one vote can make a whole lot of difference in an election.With this ignoramus attitude, important elections have been lost severally to the wrong candidates. Think about it, even the volumes of votes come only on the accumulation of one vote. History is replete with elections won just on the power of a single vote. In 1654, just one…

The just concluded special conventions of the Peoples Democratic Party PDP, All Progressives Congress APC and indeed that of other political parties did not end without a sour taste in the lips of many Igbo patriots. While some were left highly disappointed, others have totally surrendered to fate on whatever becomes of the position of Ndigbo in the project Nigeria. The popular belief that the Igbos don't support themselves openly played out with the voting choices of PDP and APC delegates from the South-East region of the country. From the results of both presidential primaries, we saw how the Igbo…

There has been a silent change of baton at the cash inflow pipeline into the Federation Account, the proverbial national cake. For decades the Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation [NNPC] held sway as the top national cash cow. Since last year, the oil giant’s contribution to the Federation Account has dwindled to zero, no thanks to the N4 trillion annual subsidy bill which it shoulders on behalf of government. Non-oil sources have since become the Federation Account’s mainstay. Four sources, Federal Inland Revenue Service [FIRS], Nigeria Customs Service, Department of Petroleum Resources and Ministry of Solid Minerals now generate most of…