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WHERE THEN IS JUSTICE? For 13 good years the people of Ikot Akpatek, Ikwe and Odio communities has been going through pains for neglect of NDDC Contractor who was contracted to construct IKOT AKPATEK-IKWE-ODIO ROAD awarded since 2002. All effort to persuade the Contractor, Worldwide Technologies Ltd and NDDC Management to leverage the affected communities by completing the road construction was in futility. Several appeals and SOS has been written to NDDC and Akwa Ibom State government to intervene, yet it hasn't yielded any positive result. The people of the three communities have lost over 6 lives at ITOKU BRIDGE alone and property (cars, motor bikes, food stuffs, building materials, etc) worth millions of Naira has been lost to the same bridge. Market women has lost their goods and wares to the high current of water passing ITOKU BRIDGE especially during raining season.  The children and pupils of Odio and Ikwe cannot go to the only nursery school at Abat due to the curr...

Northern Youths Give Non-Northerners 2 Weeks Ultimatum To Leave As Nigerians grapple with terrorism, insecurity and other vices that keep diving the country,  the youths who are the major victims of the sins of their fathers, should be doing everything possible to unite the country but some misguided youths in the Northern part of the country, under the aegis of Arewa Youth Development Foundation, has called on all Non-Northerners living in those parts to leave within two weeks or face their wrath. The ultimatum was contained in a statement read and jointly signed by the group’s National President, Aliyu Usman and Secretary, Comrade Alfred Solomon, during a courtesy call by the group to the new Emir of Kano, Alhaji Muhammadu Sanusi II, in his palace. According to the group, their call was necessary because they have lost confidence in the unity of the country and also alleged that: For the past four years, a  policy of direct subjugation of the north and ...

Chibok Girls And The Significance Of Malala's Visit To Nigeria By  Inibehe Effiong Contrary to the pessimistic and cynical views expressed by some Nigerians on the practical relevance and functional usefulness of the very historic visit to Nigeria by Malala Yousafzai, the home truth is that the struggle for the release of the over 200 Chibok girls from the excruciating captivity of Boko Haram has taken a new dimension. Born on 12 July, 1997, Malala Yousafzai, a spirited Pakistani teenager is a school pupil and education activist from the town of Mingora in the Swat District of Pakistan's northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province. In the afternoon of Tuesday, 9 October, 2012, Malala had boarded her school bus when a gunman asked for Malala by name, pointed a Colt 45 at her and fired three shots, she survived. Her offence was defying the Taliban's ban on girls from attending school. That singular incident altered the status of Malala from a local Pakistani school ...

Press Statement Osun Guber: Campaign Now Or Keep Quiet After Defeat’, PDP Tells APC Says APC Engaged In Political Gallivanting And Rigmarole The leadership of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has knocked the All Progressives Congress (APC), charging it to face reality and use the period before the August 9 governorship election in Osun state to campaign and canvass for votes just like the PDP instead of engaging in political blackmail and empty propaganda in the media. The PDP commended its candidate, Senator Iyiola Omisore as well as party stalwarts in the state for engaging in vigorous all-inclusive campaign in all the nooks and crannies of the state, which it said has resulted in the massive support currently being enjoyed by the party among the people. PDP National Publicity Secretary, Olisa Metuh in a statement on Sunday said PDP was not resting on its oars but was working harder than ever to ensure victory in the polls, noting that the factors which gave it victory i...

Happy Birthday to a literary ICON, Professor Wole Soyinka. Akinwande Oluwole "Wole" Soyinka (Yoruba: Oluwo̩lé S̩óyinká, pronounced "Shoyinka"; born 13 July 1934) is a Nigerian playwright and poet. He was awarded the 1986 Nobel Prize in Literature, the first African to be so honored. Soyinka was born into a Yoruba family in Abeokuta. After study in Nigeria and the UK, he worked with the Royal Court Theatre in London. He went on to write plays that were produced in both countries, in theatres and on radio. He took an active role in Nigeria's political history and its struggle for independence from Great Britain. In 1965, he seized the Western Nigeria Broadcasting Service studio and broadcast a demand for the cancellation of the Western Nigeria Regional Elections. In 1967 during the Nigerian Civil War, he was arrested by the federal government of General Yakubu Gowon and put in solitary confinement for two years. Soyinka has strongly criticised many Nige...

Jonathan In His Duty To Re- Run For Office NIGERIA JULY 13, 2014 - NO COMMENT By Ugorji O. Ugorji Sometimes in the life of a person or the history of a nation, a seemingly voluntary and personal choice or decision becomes a duty expected of the person or the nation by those whose lives will be affected regardless of what the decision is. In this piece, I suggest that in the personal life of President Goodluck Jonathan as we currently know it and in the unfolding history of the nation known today as Nigeria, the anxiously awaited decision of the President to run for re-election has assumed the status and stature of a duty to himself and to the nation. It is important to first visit the historic nature of the Jonathan presidency in order to develop a template for the arguments to follow: (1) He is the first elected President of Nigeria from a reportedly minority group (the Ijaw) in the Southern part of Nigeria, breaking the storied tripod political permutations bet...

Jonathan Commissions 324 Housing Units In Enugu — July 12, 2014President Goodluck Jonathan has again restated the determination of his administration to provide quality and affordable shelter to Nigerians. President Jonathan stated this at the commissioning of a 324 unit housing estate fully financed by the Federal Mortgage Bank of Nigeria ( FMBN) in Enugu, yesterday. Represented by Vice President Namadi Sambo, President Jonathan said the present administration accorded priority to the housing sector due to the importance of the housing sector to the socio- economic development of any nation as it constitutes an important element of job and wealth creation. Jonathan described the commissioning of the estate named Elim, as another visible and verifiable pointer to the success of the housing delivery initiative the present administration commenced about four years ago. He expressed delight at the commissioning of the estate which was financed by FMBN using resources of th...