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THE SWEARING-IN/INAUGURATION OF NIGERIA’S PRESIDENT-ELECT BUHARI AND NIGERIANS’ EXPECTATIONS
Zik Gbemre
Amidst the usual colourful ceremonial display and dexterity by the Nigerian Military and school children parades, Gen. Muhammadu Buhari (Rtd) will take the oath of office and allegiance as President and Commander-In-Chief of the Nigerian Armed Forces and the Federal Republic come Friday May 29, 2015. The inauguration ceremony will usher Buhari in as ...
NIGER DELTA AND THE IMPERATIVE OF INTELLECTUAL MILITANCY
CHIEF BOBSON GBINIJE
NIGER DELTA AND THE IMPERATIVE OF INTELLECTUAL MILITANCY
“The fact that man knows right from wrong
Proves his intellectual superiority to the
Other creatures; but the fact that he can
Do wrong proves his moral inferiority
To any creature that cannot.”
- MARK TWAIN
The anecdotal portrayal of Greek mythologist and substantiated by an Urhobo adage, explicitly ...
DAKUKU PETERSIDE: THE AUDACITY OF THE NEXT GOVERNOR OF RIVERS STATE
SENATOR IFEANYI OKOWA, A GRASSROOT POLITICIAN
BUHARI AND THE STEPS OF SINGAPORES’ LEE KUAN YEW
The insanity of the electoral system
INEC – DELTANS EXPECT A FREE AND FAIR GOVERNORSHIP ELECTION THIS TIME AROUND
Zik Gbemre
As the general elections approaches, INEC, as usual, had come out some weeks back to allay fears over election rigging and other election irregularities. We know that this has always been the usual practice. But the question is how true is INEC’s words? For it is one thing to come out and allay such ...
Will Rebranding of Buhari work?
X-RAYING THE GOVERNOR UDUAGHAN ADMINISTRATION AND THE LEGACY BEING LEFT BEHIND
A LOOK AT THE OTHER SIDE OF PRESIDENT JONATHAN
By Zik Gbemre,
It is not every time that we have had cause to write about Nigerian political leaders and express their recorded successes. While we are not here to sing praise of anyone, but we believe it is good, as objective critics, to highlight and see ‘the good side’ of President Goodluck Jonathan and not only ...
NEW QUARTERS FOR MARK, TAMBUWAL, OTHERS TO COST N27.1B – A CLEAR MISPLACEMENT OF PRIORITIES
By Zik Gbemre,
Seriously, the level of public funds wastefulness and corruption at high spheres of government circles is daily becoming a clear channel through which the nation is ripped off by the Nigerian government. Aside the fact that our Presidential System of government, which is in no way similar to what we have in the USA (even ...
Much Ado about the Ubiquitous PVC
By Alex O. Akpodiete Atawa
We are less than two weeks from the first leg of the 2015 General Elections, which is the Presidential and National Assembly polls. The ubiquitous issues of Permanent Voters Card (PVC), Temporal Voters Card (TVC) and the new card readers are everywhere. Proponents of use of the PVC say it is ...
THE CORRUPTION STORY UNDER OBASSANJO AND JONATHAN
POWER: DESPOTS BEWARE!!!
BY BOBSON GBINIJE
“We must define democracy as that form
of government and of society which is inspired above every other,
with the feeling and consciousness of the dignity of man”
Thomas Mann (1875-1955)
Narcissistic psychopaths and Hitleric nihilists have an insatiable and venomously gluttonous appetite for power. Power is authority, prerogative, jurisdiction, force and domination. When ...
LAWS WITHOUT IMPLEMENTATION IN NIGERIA
ZIk Gbemre,
It has been observed that policy implementation is one of the major problems confronting developing nations, with Nigeria as a clear good example. It is appalling to note how policies are rolled out regularly in developing nations like Nigeria but, most of the time, without achieving the desired results. Our law makers at the National ...