By Young Erhiurhoro The Urhobo as an ethnic group in Nigeria is a blessed land with many natural resources like oil, gas, cash crops, food crops, timber and other forest products. Many communities within the group are also blessed with rivers and rivulets, comprising many marine products. All these resources …
Read More »20,000 Housing Units by Gov Fubara, Opportunities for Creating Millionaires
By Pius Dukor It was Mathew Desmond who postulated some years ago that “Housing is absolutely essential for humans to flourish. Without stable shelter it all falls apart. The pathway to housing should be fair and equitable for everyone, and access to affordable housing is the infrastructure people in our …
Read More »Edo 2024: Shaibu’s Talk about Obaseki’s Betrayal Laughable
By Ehichioya Ezomon It’s like the kettle calling the pot black when, the other day, Edo State Deputy Governor Philip Shaibu lamented that Governor Godwin Obaseki’s betrayed him – on account of the governor “supporting an outsider” (an unknown non-politician) for the 2024 governorship, rather than his deputy of over …
Read More »Peace, Progress Model of Poverty Alleviation in Nigeria
By Gesiye Salo Angaye In 2002, Nigeria’s population was estimated around 216.7 million and a total of 88.4 million, comprising 44.7 million men and 43.7 million women who lived in extreme poverty. Poverty means insufficient income, leading to lack of food, shelter, education, health-care, security, etc. Poverty persists partly because of mass …
Read More »Edo 2024: As Esan Aspirants Sabotage Governor for Deputy
By Ehichioya Ezomon The hopes of Esan people of Edo Central senatorial district – that the 2024 governorship election will redeem the marginalisation of Esanland in the governance of Edo State – may be fizzling, or have fizzled out due partly to alleged handiwork or machination of some vauntily-ambitious Esan …
Read More »Edo 2024: Needless Attacks against Ighodalo as ‘Lagos boy,’ ‘Inability’ to Speak Esan Language
By Ehichioya Ezomon The tenure of governor of Edo, Mr Godwin Obaseki, will end on November 11, 2024, and going by Section 178(2) of the amended 1999 Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, “election into the office shall hold not earlier than 150 days and not later than 30 …
Read More »Rivers Crisis: Lawyers, Tribal Jingoists, PDP, others Fault Tinubu’s Intervention
By Ehichioya Ezomon Former Lagos State Governor and Minister of Works and Housing, Babatunde Raji Fashola (SAN) – a protégé and staunch ally of President Bola Tinubu – kicked-off the debate about whether Tinubu should intervene in the political crises in Rivers and Ondo states. Speaking at the Nigerian …
Read More »Fubara vs Wike: Rivers Becomes Edo, PDP Clever by half over Members’ Defection
By Ehichioya Ezomon The crisis in the Rivers State polity is escalating and cascading in line with the advice of supporters of Governor Siminalayi Fubara – and literally as demanded by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) – to adopt the Governor Godwin Obaseki playbook of taking no prisoners, to deal …
Read More »Autocratic Leadership in Niger-Delta Communities
By Young Erhiurhoro The above topic is very timely and important for leaders of communities in the entire Niger-Delta region. Autocratic leadership is never receptive or acceptable to the subjects or indigenes of the community. It’s never acceptable to any right-thinking person in the community. This is the major reason …
Read More »NASS Welcome Moves to Amend Electoral Act 2022
By Ehichioya Ezomon Many Nigerians agreed – and had hoped – that the amended Electoral Act 2022 would be a game changer in terms of its dynamism and innovation to cure obvious lapses in the electoral system, and ensure credibility and transparency of elections. But as shown in the process, …
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