When media celebrates media, by Ken Ugbechie
June 1, 2021 The Afternoon of Tributes may have marked a historic moment in Nigeria media as a special moment to celebrate the departed but we must never lose sight…
2023: Okowa and treachery of Delta politics, by Ray Umukoro
MAY 22, 2021 Since 1999, Okowa holds the record of amassing the highest majority votes cast in favour of any gubernatorial candidate. His victory in 2015 was overwhelming. It got…
Okowa: When a leader listens…
MAY 16, 2021 ‘Six years in office it’s obvious that Okowa has not stopped listening to people; he loves engagement with different audiences; he loves scouring through the social media…
Okowa: Leadership above the noise
MAY 10, 2021 By Jackson Udema Leadership is in doing, not in talking. All great leaders act. No pontification. No story-telling. They brace up to confront situations knowing that challenges…
Printing of money: Obaseki’s primitive presumption, By Jackson Osagie
APRIL 19, 2021 The Governor of Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, Godwin Emefiele, was all too charitable in responding to the rather medieval hypothesis of Mr. Godwin Obaseki, governor of…
Twitter in Ghana shows death of free speech in Nigeria, By Ken Ugbechie
April 18, 2021 On Monday, April 12, news broke that Twitter has announced it will be opening its first office in Africa. That’s good news. The bad side of the…
NNPC, US Report and Kyari’s transparency exemplum
By Ray Umukoro April 18, 2021 For the first time in as many decades, the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, got into the good books of the United States and…
Military Pension Board: Lawal, a reformer on duty
BY JACKSON ALI; APRIL 14, 2021 When Commodore Sabiru Abayomi Lawal assumed duty on September 18th, 2020 as the 28th Chairman of the Military Pension Board, MPB, he came with…
Danladi Umar: A Jurist and His Crude Conduct, By Ken Ugbechie
Monday, April 5, 2021 If you chance upon Justice Danladi Yakubu Umar, the Chairman of the Code of Conduct Tribunal, CCT, you’ll meet a handsome, seemingly innocuous young man. A…
Tony Elumelu: Epiphany of a Delta Boy
It might be safe to say nobody saw it coming. Except Tony Onyemaechi (Who knows tomorrow?) Elumelu himself. Or his parents. Running around Ifeyinwa Primary School as a zesty tot…