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THE SIGNED NON-VIOLENCE PACT BETWEEN NIGERIAN POLITICIANS AND MATTERS ARISING
THE QUESTION OF STANDARD AND PATRONAGE OF MADE IN NIGERIA GOODS – WHAT FUTURE PROSPECTS
Zik Gbemre
It is a known fact that one of the quickest way for any society to holistically transform from being a developing economy to an advanced modern society, which offers the best living standard for its populace, is for that society to go through an Industrial revolution, especially in the area of manufacturing. But this ...
RE: BUHARI CERTICATE SCANDAL – HOW WE SEE IT
INSECURITY IN NIGERIA IN THE EYES OF THE INCREASING TENSE PRE-ELECTORAL ENVIRONMENT
By Zik Gbemre
For quite some time now, the issue of insecurity has been a thorn in the
flesh of the present administration. And as incumbent President Goodluck
Jonathan of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and former Head of State,
Gen. Muhammadu Buhari (rtd) of the All Progressive Congress (APC) intensify
their political campaigns across the country, international attention on
the ...
DELTA GUBER: URHOBOS AS COMRADES OF ULYSSES
By Bobson Gbinije
“A man can be free even within prison walls.
Whoever has once had it can never lose it.
There are some people who are never free outside a prison.” Berthold Brecht (1898-1956).
We need no scholastic prolificity, mental binoculars and cerebral virtuosity to know that politics is a game of numerical superiority and Machiavellian acrobatics. Hence, ...
PRAXIS OF THE PRESIDENTS
INSECURITY IN NIGERIA IN THE EYES OF THE INCREASING TENSE PRE-ELECTORAL ENVIRONMENT
Zik Gbemre,
For quite some time now, the issue of insecurity has been a thorn in the flesh of the present administration. And as incumbent President Goodluck Jonathan of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and former Head of State, Gen. Muhammadu Buhari (rtd) of the All Progressive Congress (APC) intensify their political campaigns across the country, ...
2015: OKPES AND THE LABOUR OF SISYPHUS
By Bobson Gbinije
“If you shut up truth and bury it under the ground,
It will but grow, and gather to itself such explosive power
That the day it burst through, it will blow up everything in its way.”
- EMILE ZOLA (1840 - 1924)
Any collectivity’s edenic illusions of their apocalyptic imagination will expressly reflect signpost of somersaults and ...
THE NEED FOR THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT TO PROVIDE FREE UNINTERRUPTED POWER SUPPLY TO THE THREE HOST COMMUNITIES OF UTOROGU GAS PLANT IN DELTA STATE
Zik Gbemre
We humbly write to prevail on the Federal Government of Nigeria and relevant authorities in the oil and gas industry and the Power Sector to arrange with the Benin Electricity Distribution Company (BEDC) to provide ‘free’ uninterrupted powersupply to the three host communities of Utorogu Gas Plant, namely: Iwhrekan, Otor-Udu and Otu-Jeremi in Ughelli South LGA of Delta State.
BEDC had disconnected the ...
THE HIGHLY CONDEMNABLE TERROR ATTACKS IN FRANCE AND DIFFERENT PARTS OF THE WORLD
By Zik Gbemre
With the recent terror attacks in France that has claimed about 17 people that were massacred by at least three terror suspects over three days, we join the rest of the world to condemn these increasing terror activities against humanity.
The recent (and over the years) senseless and mindless killings in different parts of the ...
THE BUDGET OF THE NIGERIAN FEDERAL MINISTRY OF DEFENCE AND THE NEED FOR ACCOUNTABILITY
ZIK GBEMRE
When President Goodluck Jonathan recently said the Federal Government will continue to place high premium on the development of a strong and efficient Armed Forces, including sustaining efforts at equipment modernization and lifting the morale and welfare of officers and soldiers, we could not help but wonder what the Nigerian Government and security authorities ...
RE: US ‘NEW’ RELATIONS WITH CUBA
By Zik Gbemre
With regards to your email dated 12/18/2014 (7:13 PM), which reiterated the
recently renewed United States of America (USA) diplomatic relations with
Cuba, we truly appreciate this step by the US Government. It was really a
welcome development that on December 17, 2014, US President Barack Obama and Cuban President Raúl Castro, announced the beginning of ...
AUSTERITY MEASURES AND CHRISTMAS
By Bobson Gbinije
“That man is prudent who neither hopes nor fears anything
From their uncertain events of the future”
ANATOLE FRANCE (1844-1924) Procurator of Judea
The reason for the Christmas season is the commemoration of the glorious birth of our Lord and Saviour Jesus the Christ. Although, the exact date of His birth remains an issue of great ...
DELTA STATE BEYOND OIL – X-RAYING THE OVER-PUBLICIZED AGENDA UNDER THE LENS OF THE ‘REALITIES’ IN DELTA STATE
By Zik Gbemre
Never have we seen or witnessed a government that loves to use all manner of publicity stunts to make itself look good in the eyes of the world, like we have seen exhibited by the current Delta State Government led by Dr. Emmanuel Eweta Uduaghan. In fact, such publicity by the Delta State ...
2015: COUNTDOWN TO THE REVOLUTION?
By Bobson Gbinije
“They shall beat their swords into ploughshares,
And their spears into pruning-hooks;
Nation shall not lift up sword against nation,
Neither shall they learn war anymore”
The Holy Bible – (Isaiah 2 :4)
Beaming our mental binoculars alone the trajectory of what generally constitute a REVOLUTION and what an EVOLUTION is, implies some forms of dialectics and scholastic ...