Opinion & Columns

By: Amb. Ozimede Izuagbe Peter With static checkpoints gone, Rivers can dominate highways through “Smart Check” — a fluid, intelligence-driven model. Roving tactical teams move like shadows across key routes in marked and unmarked vehicles, never staying long enough to be predicted. They stop only vehicles that signal danger: no …

By: Amb. Ozimede Izuagbe Peter There are moments when leadership ceases to be paperwork and becomes presence. When a Commissioner does not just sit in an office, but walks the streets, feels the pulse of the people, and forces discipline into the system by example. That moment is now in …

By: Ehichioya Ezomon  Edo State Governor Monday Okpebholo assumed office in November 2024. Since then, the Idumabi Community of Irrua Kingdom in Esan Central Local Government Area of Edo Central Senatorial District of Esanland has received his administration’s attention in terms of provision of and/or promise to provide amenities for …

Summary: Why Nigeria’s conversation about policing must go beyond criticism and confront the realities of support, funding and public responsibility By Lanre Olagunju When Nigerians talk about the police, the conversation is often driven by frustration. Stories of misconduct, slow responses, poor investigations, and security failures understandably dominate public discourse. …

By: Ehichioya Ezomon  Two hidden facts emerged from the Wednesday, June 10, 2026, explanation by the spokesman of the Nigeria Democratic Congress (NDC), Osa Director, on why the political parties, weeks after the legislative primaries held in May 2026, didn’t publish the lists of candidates that scaled the ballots: Those …

    By Ehichioya Ezomon   The sustained omission of the name of Vice President Kashim Shettima from political messaging of the All Progressives Congress (APC), especially in his North-East homestead, has meshed with the adage, “Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action.” This popular saying, …

By:  David Oguzierem ‎ ‎The statement from the Presidency about Rivers State is not a joke. This is not PR. ‎This is not political grammar. ‎ ‎This is a clear warning from Aso Rock. ‎ ‎President Tinubu spoke plainly. No padding. No diplomacy. ‎And the message was simple: he is …

    By Ehichioya Ezomon   Controversial social media influencer and activist, Martins Vincent Otse, monikered, VERYDARKMAN, tried on Thursday, January 15, 2026, to assuage Nigerians’ disappointment with, and heartaches over the Super Eagles’ failure to reach the finals, and win the diadem at the weekend-ended African Cup of Nations …

    By Isidoros Karderinis   Mikis Theodorakis, who was born on the island of Chios on July 29, 1925 and hails from Galatas, Chania, on the island of Crete, on his father’s side, and from the coastal city of Cesme, Asia Minor, on his mother’s side, is, based on …

    By Isidoros Karderinis   The unprecedented kidnapping in the world annals, in the manner in which it took place, of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro constitutes not only a military intervention in a sovereign and independent country in violation of the principles of international law, but also constitutes a …