Archives for Opinion - Page 23
2015 ELECTIONS AND NATIONAL INTEREST (WILL NIGERIA SURVIVE?)
By Bobson Gbinije
“If liberty and equality, as is taught by some,
are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained
when all persons alike share in the government to the utmost”.
ARISTOLE (384-322 B.C) Politics
When the groundswell of pusillanimous tergiversation and the recherché of culpable taciturnity becomes the mantra in any ...
The Horrendous War against the Innocent and Law-abiding Citizens
By Jesse Ese
99.9% of those who have been caught red-handed in the act of criminality, terrorism, and the host of other dreaded activities always attribute the blame to government. They say that the government has refused to provide jobs, and social amenities that make life easy for mankind.
Some of them complaining of lack of employment ...
UDUAGHAN’S WEIRD LEGACIES AND OKOBIA ROAD
By Bobson Gbinije
“Our world is a neighborhood.
We are tied together in the single
Garment of destiny, caught in an inescapable network of mutuality.
And whatever affects one directly affects all indirectly”
(Martin Luther king Jr)
The arrogant segregationists and the Caucasoid depots thrived in their Golgotha savagery because their victims were sandwiched in the tragedy of despondency, non-violent complacency ...
2015 ELECTIONS AND NATIONAL INTEREST (WILL NIGERIA SURVIVE?)
By Bobson Gbinije
“If liberty and equality, as is taught by some,
are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained
when all persons alike share in the government to the utmost”.
ARISTOLE (384-322 B.C) Politics
When the groundswell of pusillanimous tergiversation and the recherché of culpable taciturnity becomes the mantra in any ...
POLITICIANS, VOODOO AND POWER
By Bobson
“Man supposes that he directs his life and governs his actions,
when his existence is irretrievably under the control of destiny”
GOETHE (1749-1832)
The ruthless apotheosization of money, wealth, success, fame, greatness and power etc has stimulated the cacoethes and passion for multidimensional strategies for achieving them. The deification of money and power has ...
NIGERIA’S POLITICS OF ENDORSEMENT
Zik Gbemre
It is really sad to see how many things happen in this country which ranges from the strange to the absurd and from the weird to the ridiculous, to the extent that often times, such things have become the norm and brazenly made acceptable for all and sundry to swallow. Nigeria is a place where ...
OBASANJO: CRUCIFY HIM! CRUCIFY HIM!! BUT THE (IAC)
CHIEF BOBSON GBINIJE
Our global village is being continuously bedraggled and bemused by conflictual vortexes and counter-vortexes, and it has now become fundamentally imperative more than ever before to institutionalize instrumental actions of crises management and schism resolution to backpedal mankind from the epicenter of this anarchical entropy.
We need consultative initiatives, all-embracing strategic repositioning and synergistic ...
Rev. Atawa-Akpodiete awarded Ambassador … Encourages Christians to be active in politics
The Rivers State capital was agog as a respected Man of God and his wife were made Ambassadors in service of Christ. The event which took place at the Ministry of Justice Conference Hall, in the State Secretariat, was part of the 2014 Church Management Conference, organized by the Church Management Support Ministry (CMSM) in ...
WHO TAKES OVER FROM THE CURRENT SHELL NIGERIA MD/COUNTRY CHAIR?
Zik Gbemre
As the current Country Chair/Managing Director of the Royal Dutch Oil Company based in Nigeria, Mr. Mutiu Sunmonu, bows out of office soonest, the question of who takes over the mantle of leadership becomes very expedient to put into consideration and find answers to.
Indeed, Mr. Mutiu Sunmonu won the hearts of many with several ...
BEATIFICATION OF NATURE AND GOD AT ALFA BEACH
Nature herself has imprinted on the minds of all the idea of God.
Cicero (106-43BC) De Natura Deorum
CHIEF BOBSON GBINIJE
The monomaniacal obsession and instinctual attachment which naturalists, environmentalists and ecologists etc. have for cosmological immaculacy, has been rubbished by a monstrous civilization. The industrial revolution has unleashed it’s destructive and horrendous brigandage on nature, precipitating a ...
POLITICIANS, 2015 AND THE ANATOMY OF PATRIOTISM
BOBSON GBINIJE
Our country, right or wrong.
When right, to be kept right;
When wrong, to be put right.
Carl Schurz (1829-1906)
My affections are first for my own country,
And then, generally for all mankind.
Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826)
The growth and development of any nation, state and collectivity must be silhouetted on the transcendental imperative and fundamental matrix of patriotism. Patriotism is ...
ON ADDRESSING MULTIPLE TAXATION AND LEVIES IN WARRI, ENVIRONS AND OTHER PARTS OF DELTA STATE
Zik Gbemre
Recently, Chairmen of Tax Boards across the Federation met in the oil city of Warri, Delta State and resolved to find ways of ending multiple taxation and levies which they said have become burdens on the people. To say that Nigerians, especially the common masses, have greatly suffered in the hands of relevant ‘real and fake’ tax/levy collectors ...
WILL OBUH FIGHT BACK AS ANIOMA REJECTS UDUAGHAN IMPOSITION?
AMAECHI: THE MAN, HIS FEATS, ‘SINS’ AND TRIBULATIONS: AN INSIDER’S ACCOUNT
RE: COMPLAINT ON THE PUBLIC HARRASSMENT, ASSAULT & EXTORTION OF MONEY FROM VEHICLE OWNERS BY FRSC OFFICERS
Zik Gbemre
This is to bring to the attention of relevant authorities of the Federal Road Safety Commission (FRSC), and other relevant authorities of the government, about the observed public harassments, assaults and extortion of money from vehicle owners by officials of the FRSC whose office is at Orhuwhorun Road, Warri Delta State. As partners with ...