Opinion & Columns

Across Africa, in the pantheon of Pan-African heroes, the story of liberation is never written in ink but in courage. Nelson Mandela’s steadfast walk, Kwame Nkrumah’s clarion call for independence, Patrice Lumumba’s fearless truth in the Congo, Aline Sitoé Diatta’s resistance in Senegal; there stand sons and daughters who shape …

  By Uwem Offon    It began as a misunderstanding within a young marriage. Yet, what should have been resolved with dialogue, patience, and forgiveness ended in flames. A promising military officer, barely five months into matrimony, was set ablaze by God knows who and consumed in a violence so …

  By Ehichioya Ezomon   Like the fabled tortoise that’s never absent in stories, former President Goodluck Jonathan’s lately the talk-of-the-town – and the “beautiful bride” courted for drafting into the presidential contest in the 2027 General Election. The one-term (or “two-term”) president (2010-2015) – relishing another four-year stay at …

  By Macderson Brown Austin Ezekiel-Hart, during the six-month emergency rule in Rivers State (imposed in early 2025 amid a political crisis, leading to the appointment of Vice Admiral Ibok-Étè Ibas (rtd) as Sole Administrator), faced significant pressures to compromise civil service due process and engage in actions that flouted …

  By Austin Orette   Two sets of people settled in the Anambra-Imo River Basin. The dominant empire in the region at that time was the Benin Empire whose influence spread from present day Edo state to the Republic of Benin in the West and Onitsha in the East. The …

  By Ehichioya Ezomon   Days after restoration of democratic governance in Rivers State, “busybodies” are honinig strategies to stir a crisis for Governor Siminalayi Fubara, who endured a six-month suspension from office following President Bola Tinubu’s imposition of a state of emergency rule in Rivers on March 18, 2025. …

  By Ehichioya Ezomon   An Esan proverb says, “You don’t ask a sensible child to leave a smoke-filled place.” Another idiom says, “A person does not see dirt and allow it to enter their eyes.” If that happens, in both cases, it means the child or person has no …

  By Austin Orette Religion in Nigeria will always be a cog in the wheel of progress because this is the Trojan horse the colonizers left behind. It is the only thing that leads to arrested development of any intelligent discussion of finding solutions to what is holding Nigeria back. …

  By Ehichioya Ezomon    All things being equal (ceteris paribus), the suspended democratic institutions in Rivers State – the executive and legislative arms of government – will be restored by Thursday, September 18, 2025, exactly six months after President Bola Tinubu declared a near-marshall rule over the state. In …

  (By Dez Mayorz News)   Chiefs and people of Dabira Community in Bille Kingdom, Degema Local Government Area of Rivers State, have issued a rejoinder against what they describe as “baseless fabrications” and “historical distortions” by Kalabari groups parading under the newly-contrived title of Torusarama-Piri. In a statement signed …