Elder statesman and convener of the Pan Niger Delta Forum (PANDEF), Edwin Clark, has reacted to the resolutions between Rivers governor Sininalayi Fubara and FCT minister Nyesom Wike after a meeting with President Bola Tinubu. Fubara and Wike have been at loggerheads over the political control of Rivers State. Earlier, President Tinubu had intervened in…
An Abuja-based non-governmental organisation (NGO), Initiative for Leadership Development and Change (ILDC), has called on politicians to rally support for President Bola Tinubu to rebuild Nigeria. Ugochukwu Nnam, president of the group, made the call in an interview with journalists in Abuja on Saturday. Mr Nnam advised politicians to close ranks and support Mr Tinubu…
Without adopting and fully implementing the report of the 2014 National Conference, progress in all facets may continue to elude Nigeria, as the document contains the antidote to the political and socio-economic problems confronting the country. This was the consensus of the opinions of political, economic and academic leaders who converged on Lagos during the…
APC governorship candidate, Timipre Sylva, has replied to former president, Goodluck Jonathan over his comment on the outcome of the Bayelsa election Sylva said Jonathan’s statement is unfortunate but wants to believe the former president was misquoted. Jonathan during a visit to Governor Duoye Diri said he would have relocated his mother to Abuja had…
_The Strategist 30.08.23_ These days when I hear that popular chant around churches that “the devil and his agents” have planned this or planned that, I find myself wondering why devil and his cronies are not directing their evil at the west (Europe, North America, etc) Upon all the generational atrocities committed by the west…
The Presidency has slammed the former Vice President, Atiku Abubakar noting that it was his “inordinate ambition” to be President that is doomed, and not Nigeria. The presidency in a release on Monday noted that it advised Atiku that after over three decades of his “elusive bid for the Presidency of Nigeria, he must now…
The Ijaw National Congress (INC) has slammed the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Nyesom Wike, over his claim that he owns the political structure in Rivers State. In a statement signed on Friday by its President, Prof. Benjamin Ogele Okaba, the group posited that the political structure in Rivers should not and cannot…
By Michael Iheonukara Okpara Address at the Convocation, University of Nigeria, Nsukka by Dr. M.I. Okpara, Premier of Eastern Nigeria December 17th, 1962. INTRODUCTION:Since assuming the Premiership of Eastern Nigeria in December, 1959, Dr Michael Iheonukara Okpara, 42, has devoted his whole attention and energy to economic development of his twelve-million-people territory. Building on the…
US President Joe Biden condemned Donald Trump on Thursday for describing Hezbollah as “very smart” even as the Lebanese militant group exchanges fire with Israel following the Hamas attack on the US ally. During a campaign speech in Florida, Trump also falsely accused the Biden administration of bankrolling the Hamas assault as a result of…
Kenneth Okonkwo, a Nigerian Actor, Lawyer, Columnist and Politician has replied to the purported petition written by the National Secretary of the All Progressives Congress, Senator Ajibola Basiru, to the NBA against him for disagreeing with the judgement of the Supreme Court on the petition appeal of HE Peter Obi and the Labour Party. In…
