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OPINION: DUBAI, NIGERIA & A NEW YEAR Of UNCERTAINTIES*

Posted by admin on Sunday, 01 January 2023 in Opinion 745 Reads

By Zik GbemreAs we step into 2023, the usual New Year messages, still flying about, are often suffused with loving and prayerful thoughts and goodwill for all kinds of people, friends, acquaintances, relations, compatriots, political leaders, and so on.The common New Year messages typically sound like, “Wishing You A Happy And Prosperous New Year”, ...

Ovie Omo-Agege: In Case You Have Forgotten!

Posted by admin on Wednesday, 30 November 2022 in News, Opinion 807 Reads

Senator Ovie Omo-Agege By Ejiro IdamaNigerian politics has a way of throwing up dimwits who clothe themselves in the shining robes of identities that they really are not. These dimwits have largely contributed to the retarded development of Nigeria as a nation. Since our politics and social consciousness are still evolving, it is expected that ...

THE WORLD GLOOMY FORECASTS ABOUT WORLD ECONOMY AND UN HYPOCRITICAL STAND

Posted by admin on Friday, 18 February 2022 in Opinion 1266 Reads

Dr Emrowosovwa Umagba By Emrowosovwa UmagbaThe world is in extremis.The world economy need to be rescued from collapse. if you look back vividly at the world economy data map and barometers in the previous year's, carefully analyzing the oligarchy and opprobrium of the governing method of grouping of country's into continents, you will understand what I ...

MAGODO ESTATE BROUHAHA: POLICE HAS DUTY TO DO THEIR JOB – Zik Gbemre

Posted by admin on Wednesday, 05 January 2022 in Opinion 1368 Reads

Gov Sanwo-Olu By Zik Gbemre...The Police have a duty to respond against likely any breach of public peace anywhere including moving into private estates....Gov Sanwo-Olu got it wrong in joining the estate residents to stop the police from doing its job.*_...The Governor role as Chief Security Officer of Lagos does not give him the power to ...

OPINION: SHELL ASSETS DIVESTMENT IN DELTA: THE WHOLE TRUTH FROM AN INSIDER’S VIEW

Posted by admin on Monday, 03 January 2022 in Opinion 1230 Reads

By Zik Gbemre...I am vindicated by the unbiased account expressed by a former Shell General Manager on why the oil major left Delta state.*_...Until we situate the blame in all honesty and amend our ways, we will remain stagnated as a state and in south south of the Niger Delta at large.*_When stakeholders often rationalise ...

Political Pendulum: Who is Behind Zik Gbemre’s Attacks On Chief Ighoyota Amori.

Posted by admin on Friday, 15 October 2021 in Opinion 1682 Reads

Ighoyota Amori By Fred Latimore Oghemesivbe Esq.There is a new trend of politics gaining grounds in Delta State, and if allowed to penetrate would certainly track the walls and the Lizards and Reptiles will have comfortable shelter in the spaces created.I read the lengthy but senseless arguments put forward by Zik Gbemre, a voice crying in ...

IMPERSONATION: A CALL FOR ARREST, PROSECUTION OF CHIEF AMORI

Posted by admin on Friday, 15 October 2021 in Opinion 1640 Reads

Ighoyota Amori By Zik Gbemre...Chief Amori has no legitimacy to refer to himself or be addressed as a Senator of the Federal Republic of Nigeria....Having failed to accept the reality and still parading himself as a Senator, only an arrest and formal prosecution and punishment would deter him...He also needs to be stopped from bringing shame ...

AFRICA’S FAILURE: WHO CAN FAULT PUTIN?

Posted by admin on Thursday, 09 September 2021 in Opinion 1674 Reads

President Vladimir Putin's By Zik Gbemre...No one could have expressed the bitter truth about Africa's self inflicted backwardness more convincingly than President Putin puts it..Africans, especially Nigeria should rather blame selves than blame Putin or anyone else over the piteous reality staring at them...The continent of Africa has a choice to make the difference or ...

ZIK GBEMRE ON THE CULTURE OF WASTEFULNESS AND POVERTY IN NIGERIA

Posted by admin on Monday, 09 August 2021 in Opinion 1488 Reads

...Most Nigerians are poor mostly because they are wasteful! They waste time, waste ideas, waste opportunities, waste talent, waste relationships, waste money… We do the same thing as a country...Wastefulness is immoral. God abhors the wasteful...We can never cure poverty by giving the poor handouts, and giving graduates N5,000 a month. We must pull down ...

OIL DEGRADATION, POLLUTION OF NIGER-DELTA CREEKS, LANDS: A SHARED BLAME – Zik Gbemre

Posted by admin on Monday, 02 August 2021 in Opinion 1438 Reads

...Most pipeline vandalism in recent times are third party induced for various unlawful gains*_...The increasing crime now a shared evil involving host communities, service contractors and some oil companies workers....The polluted communities endangering lives and livelihoods of generations unborn It is very uncommon to experience crude oil/condensate spillages caused by equipment failure on the vast pipelines ...

OPINION: Niger Delta Activist, Isreal Joe speaks on Shutting Down of Social Media by FG

Posted by admin on Friday, 25 June 2021 in Opinion 1674 Reads

President Muhammadu Buhari I watched keenly, the presentation of the Minister of Information Lai Mohammed to the members of the National Assembly. He spoke convincingly and justifiably on the suspension of Twitter in Nigeria. He attempted to contact the gullible people with his arguments of archaism.He forgot to state the employment opportunities given by the social ...

OPINION: Delta 2023: Professor Sam Oyovbaire’s Statement Misleading

Posted by admin on Monday, 03 May 2021 in News, Opinion 1810 Reads

Professor Sam Oyovbaire Generally, democracy is about free choice and it is within the constitutional right of members of any organized and duly registered political party to aspire for the office of the Governor of any particular state, just as they cannot also deny others of this same right. Indeed, unhindered freedom of association and ...

Olu of Warri: I still stand by the edit (law) of 1979 – Omolubi

Posted by admin on Thursday, 08 April 2021 in Opinion 2548 Reads

Prince Omolubi Newuwumi JP I Prince Omolubi Newuwumi JP from Utonlila Community the chairman of concerned Ginuwa 1 ruling house.Utonlila was founded by Ugbewun and Deso who are sons of Erejuwa 1 the then Olu of Warri, Ugbewun begot Ejutse, Ejutse begot Ewuru, Ewuru begot Newuwumi, Newuwumi begot Peter, Peter is my father. This made me ...

ON HOW TO REVAMP NIGERIA’S UPSTREAM AND DOWNSTREAM OIL & GAS SECTOR

Posted by admin on Monday, 05 April 2021 in Opinion 1797 Reads

By Zik Gbemre With recent reports that the President Muhammadu Buhari-led Federal Executive Council (FEC) had approved a whopping $1.5 billion to rehabilitate the epileptic Port Harcourt refinery, I consider it a national tragedy and a shame of a nation that Nigeria, despite its over fifty decades of oil and gas exploration and production activities, has ...

ON BOLA TINUBU’S SOLUTION TO NIGERIA’S INSECURITY PROBLEM – IS THAT THE BEST HE CAN COME UP WITH?

Posted by admin on Thursday, 01 April 2021 in Opinion 1561 Reads

By Zik GbemreI was a bit taken aback and surprised, when the National Leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Bola Tinubu, recently asked the Federal Government to recruit at least 50 million Nigerian youths into the Nigerian Army to address the insecurity situation in the country. In his speech at a colloquium to celebrate ...

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