Opinion Archives — Page 20 of 28

Mar

07

2022

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Arochukwu Constituency 2023: Ike Okorafor, our best leg forward

Opinion

One of the parting gifts of 2023 political dispensation to Nigerians is that it is going to offer us the opportunity to correct any errors in the way players view politics and change the orientation of the average Nigerians who have suddenly felt inclined to political happenstances around them which have heightened the desire to push for a change in status quo from selecting leaders of the people for them to the people voting who will lead them. This awareness has become more obvious as a result of the despondency and epileptic developmental strides of the people entrusted with the…

Mar

07

2022

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Emmanuel Onwubiko: Be Desperate, Orji Uzor Kalu, please!

Opinion, Politics

By Emmanuel Onwubiko “Until philosophers are kings, cities will never have rest from their evils” Plato (427- 347BCE). “According to Georg Hegel, political ideas are an abstraction from the political life of a society, state, culture, or political movement. To make sense of those ideas, and the institutions or movements they explain, involves examining their history and development. That history is always a story of how we got to where we are now. What we cannot do is look forward to see where history is going. In Roman mythology, the Owl of Minerva was a symbol of wisdom. For Hegel, the Owl only…

Mar

02

2022

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THE MAN CALLED KALU IJOMAH UKEH PT. 1: The Lofty Task Of Leadership

Opinion

THE MAN CALLED KALU IJOMAH UKEH PT. 1: The Lofty Task Of Leadership Defining reality is a huge part of leadership. Every citizen would want to follow a leader who is honest about the current situation they face as a people with a purpose to offer lotions to them. Leadership is the potential to influence the behaviour of others. It is also the capacity to influence a group of persons towards the realization of a goal by being involved in shaping and moulding the behaviour of the group towards the accomplishment of the set goals. Max DePree makes it seem…

Feb

28

2022

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Minister of State, FCT, and Satellite Towns infrastructure development, by Gambo Jagindi

Metro, Opinion

By Gambo Jagindi Abuja is the capital city of Nigeria and one of the eight most populous cities in the country. Located in the center of Nigeria, the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Abuja, is a city built in the 1980s based on a Masterplan by a Japanese architect, Kenzo Tange. Abuja replaced Lagos, Nigeria's most populous city as the capital on Dec. 12, 1991. Though development of the city is still in progress after more than three decades, the indigenous communities and the city's poor believe that Abuja was designed for only the rich, insisting that the masterplan has no…

Feb

24

2022

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OPINION: Where are the patriots?

Opinion

Dr. Charles Okhai Something of great importance is missing in our society. Something very significant and high national value is obviously and remarkably missing in our nation. They are like seasonings without which no meal can taste good. In the same way, without Patriots no nation can attain her full developmental potentials. Nigeria is unarguably far backwards socially, economically, and politically. The missing link is the dearth of Patriots in our society. The Lack of Patriots underscores our underdevelopment and stagnation as a nation. Sometimes in the past , we had some vibrant Patriots who fought fearlessly and doggeddly for…

Feb

23

2022

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Senator Orji Uzor Kalu: Another Joseph in Disguise

Opinion

Dapo Ipool Joseph was a chaste and notable Bible character. In his lifetime, he was busy building the capacity of a nation builder while going through his harrowing wilderness experience. His experiences of being thrown into a well and sold into slavery by his brothers, his puritanical chastity to resist the licentious Potiphar’s wife, Zuleika, the little time he spent in the Egyptian prison, were all his trying periods and preparation for divine greatness. Despite his travails, Joseph’s relationship with God was pristine and without compromise. He chose to go to the prison rather than to infest his Bible trained…

Feb

23

2022

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OPINION: Exploring the finance Act to grow non-oil revenue

Business, Opinion

By Sunday Michael Ogwu The expirience of COVID-19 especially on developing nations with dependent oil resource like Nigeria has further heightened the called for the diversification of revenue source. Oil benchmark prices dropped below zero force producers to pay off takers because of the compounding demourage from warehouses. Nigeria has not hidden its desire to diversify its revenue sources especially in the last couple of years with the Finance Act opening up more channels to extract non oil revenue. The 2019 finance Act was described as the most far-reaching tax reform in 20 years, designed to facilitate corporate restructuring and…

Feb

22

2022

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Ike Okorafor : INTERVENING SOCIAL DOCTOR

Opinion

The Author of Declaration, Gemma Malley surmised what a call to service should connote when she wrote: “I vow to serve, to pay my dues And train myself for Legal use. I vow to bear the Surplus shame And repay Nature for the same I vow to listen, not to speak; To steel myself when I am weak. I vow to work and most of all To serve the State if it should call.” It is on the aegis of this that an Abam born, Prince Ike Okorafor , from the progeny of the late paramount ruler of Ohafor, Eze…

Feb

22

2022

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ABIA 2023: KALU IJOMAH UKEH, THE ENIGMA IN THE ABIA STATE GOVERNORSHIP CONTEST.

Opinion, Politics

ABIA 2023: KALU IJOMAH UKEH, THE ENIGMA IN THE ABIA STATE GOVERNORSHIP CONTEST. The 2023 contest for the Lion House, seat of power of Abia State is gathering momentum and many qualified, prepared and ebullient candidates have been thrown up by the necessity of demand for true change in Abia State, especially from the Abia North Senatorial Zone, whose turn it is to produce the next governor of Abia State in line with principles of Charter of Equity that has kept Abia State politically stable from inception. One of such seriously prepared and qualified aspirants is Chief Kalu Ijomah Ukeh…

Feb

21

2022

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Prince Ike Okorafor, a good blend of ancient and contemporary politics

Opinion

One significant thing about the declaration of Prince Ike Okorafor (Dike Ogu 1 of Abam), to contest for the seat of Arochukwu State Constituency, Abia State Assembly is the reality that in as much as many see him as Yankee-Breed in Local Politics, a fresh horn in the game, the fact remains that he is a young man that has been in touch with home, its challenges, its ups and downs, and has contributed immensely to processes of finding succour to her many problems all his life. He has been an active politician and card-carrying member of the PDP since…