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This year’s World Earth Day, commemorated last Saturday, April 22, was a special one. The vivid colours shone the brightest from London. Humans dressed up to look like animals and plants. You see them in all hues – toads, trees, teddies and termites. Families hold hands and walk among the mobile camouflage. Children chuckle and…
As the inauguration of the next Nigerian legislature, termed the 10th National Assembly, draws near, different people and groups have started plotting to emerge leaders of the Senate and the House of Representatives. Arguments based on zonal and religious balancing have been pushed forward by different individuals and groups to favour them. One of such…
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Ethiopia started and completed a brand new 756km (Ethiopia to Djibouti Port) standard gauge rail project within 5 years at a cost of $4.5bn.(Average cost of $5.9m per kilometer). This rail project was executed across a stretch of very treacherous mountainous and undulating landscapes. Yet, the Ethiopians roasted their government for doing the project at…
Are you aware that Nigeria has four existing refineries, with combined capacities to process and refine 445,000 barrels of crude oil per day, located in Kaduna, Warri, and Port Harcourt respectively? ✍️Are you also aware that the first Nigeria REFINERY in Port Harcourt at Alesa Emese was built in under 2 years ( from 1963…
The fact that Rivers State Governor Nyesom Wike brought the next president of Nigeria and a previous president of Nigeria to London for decisive meetings last week, accompanied by his political allies, is a reflection of his current political influence. Bredda Bola Tinubu, the All-Progressives Congress’ (APC) presidential candidate, was the first person he met….
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The challenges facing the Imo Youths in Imo State are innumerable and pathetic, but we can stop them if the Imo State Government begins to accommodate the youths in her government. I want to re-echo the voice of Prof Eyo Ita in 1934 (as the National Leader of the Nigerian Youth Movement, NYM) who then…
Today, I’m on a political voyage to discuss political justice and fair play as it concerns the Executive Governor of Rivers State Chief Nyesom Wike. All my readers should read this article with a mind bereft of political resentment, rancor and bias. It’s only by so doing one can appreciate the inherent reality. The science…
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For some years now, the socio-political stature of lmo state has remained in deplorable condition, so have other states, Nigeria and almost every other nation- state in Africa. This is the general mentality of the common man in the concerned polities who everyday long for the advent of new things and who at the presence…
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Governor Hope Uzodinma of Imo State is swimming against the tide. His decision to go against the position of southern governors on open grazing is damnable. It is a miscalculation. It is an albatross that will always come round to haunt him. No doubt, Uzodinma is looking at politics. But the issue at stake cannot…
Tops in current affairs discourse and discussion in Imo State, include the menace of flooding across the State, particularly in areas around the capital Owerri. Indeed, it has become too worrisome coping with the current challenges posed by flooding in the State. It’s more so when, according to insider sources, billions of naira have been…
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Geographically speaking, Owerri situates on a plain and is surrounded by some body of water that empties it’s self into Imo river and can’t be prone to Floods of any kind. Let’s Begin with a brief definition of the word; FLOODING Flooding can be defined as a type of extreme weather. It happens when there…
The Iri ji (new yam) is an annual rich cultural festival reveredly held by the Igbo people at the end of the rainy season in early August. The ceremony which is a very culturally based occasion, tying individual Igbo communities together as essentially agrarian and dependent on yam, is usually done as a thanksgiving for…
“Most of the lands supposedly acquired in the 40s, 50s and 60s in Lagos on a 99year lease are coming to an end”. [ultra_list list_type=”ultra-list1″] [ultra_li]If you have ownership of a piece of land , why paying tenement rate? [/ultra_li] [ultra_li] Are land truly sold in Nigeria or are we simply selling 99year leaseholds ?…
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