Issues and Perspectives

Rivers State which was created by General Yakubu Jack Gowon on 27th May, 1967 among eleven other states as a political detour from Regionalism to Stateism is a multi-ethnic state that has the Ogoni, Etche, Ekpeye, Ikwerre with Ijaw as the predominant ethnic tribe. Ijaws who are also the predominant people in the geographic Niger Delta region (Akwa Ibom, Bayelsa, …

Interesting. My question is this, about eight million voted for Tinubu, six million for Atiku and six million for Obi. Added up it is about twenty three million votes. Nigeria is supposed to be 200 million people. Eighty nine million registered to vote. That is about one in every four registered voters voted. Why such a low turnout to vote? …

Ebony Herald news Platform 23rd November to 26th November. matters arising from ben Murray Bruce article. Prince Dr. Wumi Akintide and Amb. Albert Omotayo How I wish that President Tinubu and Ali Shettima and their Government have the courage to tell Nigerians the blunt truth that Ben Murray-Bruce has told Nigerians BELOW “The Naira will not rise even if Nigeria …

If the report credited to the Nigerian First Lady on the social media that VP Shettima is plotting to kill President Tinubu is true, and if the allegation or rumor by Sheikh Gumi that Onyesom Wike had to be removed by Tinubu to placate or appease the Northerners, and if the allegation that Wike, as FCT Minister has ordered for …

Gov. Rotimi Akeredolu Like I’ve mentioned everywhere I have spoken lately, Akeredolu is a straight forward human being who does not play game with everything that comes his way. He is steadfast and very frank.Left to Arakunrin as he’s fondly called, he won’t love to have gone through all the stress they are are making him to go through now. …

Hon ChibundumsHon Prince Chibudom Nwuche former deputy speaker has called on Nigerians to rally behind FCT Minister Nyesom Wike in his drive to restore the Abuja master plan and instill discipline in urban development.Those who have lived in Abuja since the return of the democratic dispensation in 1999 can attest to the deterioration of the capital city by illegal structures …

Israeli leader Hamas leaderI want to emphasize in talking about the Israeli/Palestine stalemate that War between the two factions is not the best solution.War is only going to destroy more lives and properties on both sides of the isle and multiply or escalate the cost of Peace and Negotiation which are what ultimately end bitter confrontation and conflict from time …

National Unity has remained very elusive in Nigeria because the 1914 Amalgamation Proclamation by Lord Lugard was a marriage of convenience solemnized without consultation or consensus of the 3 nations that were merged into one in a grand deception which was the brainchild of Lord Lugard the British Envoy who had made the suggestion to merge the two Protectorates and …

Republicans are now preaching that Elections no longer work and should not work anymore in America.They are now directly telling us that what works are Violence, the obnoxious Electoral College Conundrum of 570 handpicked Electors and their Gerrymandering Manipulations all over the country where the Democrats can win 70 percent of the votes but score only 30 percent of the …

Much Ado about nothing”is the name I give to Tinubu’s Certificate Racketeering Scandal at Chicago State University and the preoccupation of Abubakar Atiku to continue to embarrass and force the Supreme Court to remove President Tinubu from office.Atiku is now beginning to look and sound like the fake mother in the Bible who quickly agreed to the suggestion by very …