By Ebenezer Ojor Democracy demands eternal vigilance. Both leaders and followers have important roles to play in this regard. And to think that positive changes can occur by happenstance in any democratic system, is at best delusional. Invariably the constant adjustments and panel-beating remain crucial to keeping any system on course. Again, it has been said that if citizens can change their government through periodic elections, those in leadership are more likely to behave responsibly. Events of the 2023 general elections bring to fore, the imperative for further reforms of…
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Coalition Of CSO’s Demand Immediate Release Of Ohaneze Youth Leader, Igboayaka
A coalition of Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) in Nigeria has strongly condemned arrest and of the president, Ohanaeze Youth Council (OYC), Comrade Igboayaka .O. Igboayaka. In a release jointly signed by Chilos Godsent of Igbo National Council (INC), Comrade Ifeanyichukwu for Ohaneze Youth Council (OYC), Chinonso Uba Nonsonkwa of Nchekwa Ndi Ogbenye Foundation and five others, the CSOs alleged that Igboayaka’s arrest may not be unconnected with “his outspokenness to condemn the brutal killing of over 15 harmless Christian worshipers by Herdsmen at Amegu Nkalagha in Ishielu Local Government Area…
Read MoreTarget Of South East Development Commission Bill As Sponsored By Sam Daddy
By ReaLity In a society like a Nigerian state where the constitutional provision for decision making, leadership, protection, opportunities to get what, where, when and how is skewed in a way that a section of the country is placed above others, it then becomes a herculean task for the minority to have a say even when what is talked about is produced by him. In such a situation, the only visible option becomes demonstration which the government usually view as recalcitrance and in the government’s tyrannical ways of clamping down…
Read MoreABC Of Addressing Nigeria’s Food Challenge
By Iheanyi Ezinwo Production of food should not be a problem in Nigeria in the 21st Century. From the North to the South; East to the West, Nigeria is blessed with vast land mass and vegetation that supports agricultural initiatives of any magnitude. However, what has been missing is willingness on the part of government to prioritize food production. Each government comes with one half measure or the other that are unsustainable. The observed insensitivity of policy makers to the feelings and aspirations of Nigerians is the reason why so…
Read MoreHas Patrick Ndubueze Lived Up To Expectation?
By Kingsley Osuagwu During the countdown to the last General election, I had a reservation of the candidates that would vie for the Senatorial seat of Imo north. Since after the seat was occupied by Senator Godwin Ifeanyi Araraume I have never seen a powerful representation and purpose driven Senator among the lots that went after Araraume not until recently. Sometime in the year I took a visit to the National Assembly complex to submit some letters and visit the office of distinguished Senator Patrick Ndubueze before leaving. After submitting…
Read More2027 Imo Governorship: Ohakim Remains The Pawn In Chess Board
By Promise Onyewuchim I feel very humbled that our harmless letter to the leadership of Imo Council Of Elders in response to their clarion call for inputs on the Imo Charter Of Equity has drawn so much attention and infact became a reference topical discourse in Imo polity. Though the afore mentioned letter was highjacked by the fifth columnists and divulged to the press thus opened up all manner of discussions both for and against on the Imo Charter Of Equity. Up till this time no one has come up…
Read MoreKings and Imams in Yorubaland
By Lasisi Olagunju Beyond its outer casing of spirituality, the post of Imam in Yorubaland potentially guarantees prestige, power and prosperity. That is why people fight to be Imam as grisly as princes fight to be king. But when siblings fight to the death, they lose their chest to outsiders. The Yoruba Muslim community is almost always at war with itself. The League of Imams and Alfas of Yorubaland, Edo and Delta in April this year scrambled to douse a fire over who should be their mufti. The mufti is…
Read MoreNeed To Stop Expensive Burial In Igbo Land
By Chiemena Abara There’s a dangerous extravagant financial air that has filled the entire Igbo land which is expensive burials to make one appear like a king in death . It has become very worrisome, especially to right thinking individuals that burials in Igbo land are now made unnecessarily too expensive.. This has made a lot of families to borrow in order to burial their deceased member to meet up with the new societal burial standard. It is very disheartening and sad to observe that a person who died in…
Read More2027: No Big Political Masquerade Will Succeed Uzodimma
BY John Igwe I have refrained from joining the 2027 Imo governorship discourse because of two factors. One such factor is that it is early to put on the front burner the issue of who succeeds Governor Hope Uzodimma when he is just five months old in office in his second term. Those pushing the narrative of succession seem to be hurrying him out of office. No outgoing governor will dance to such political tantrums. The band of zoning agitators who are saying that it is their turn to produce…
Read MoreWhy Many Nigerians Can’t Forgive Arthur Nzeribe
By Fustus Arthur Nzeribe is a name that many Nigerians find hard to forgive because of his major role in ruining what could have been a turning point for democracy in the country. In 1993, Nigeria held what was considered its fairest and freest presidential election. Moshood Abiola was believed to have won this election, giving people hope for a brighter and more democratic future. But these hopes were crushed, and Nzeribe played a big part in this disappointment. Nzeribe led a group called the Association for Better Nigeria (ABN). This…
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