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IT IS ALL ILLUSION

It is all illusion….. A mirage….. Dashed hopes. We have arrived at that point again when politicians pretend to be what they are not. They make promises they don’t intend to keep. But, we have seen this over and over again. They manipulate the gullible. They are friendly with all when they are canvassing for votes but become lords when they win power…..become inaccessible…..with stern looking…

LIVING IN DENIAL OR IS IT CLUELESSNESS?

The All Progressives Congress [APC] government is living in denial. It is the worst thing anybody, organization or even a party can do to itself. Nigerians are going through harrowing experience and nothing is being done about it. The APC rode to power on the back of goodwill and the supposed integrity of President Muhammadu Buhari. Back in 2015, the masses had lost patience with the Peoples…

How ‘MUST’ Will Put Nigeria Asunder.

The word Must assumes compulsion, necessity and obligation, and certainty. It does not give room for dithering, negotiation and second opinion. Must is found in the real and rigid world, in totalitarian governments and in nature, where day must follow night. It is a misnomer in politics where you do not have permanent friends but permanent interests. Now, there is a heated debate as the…

Dear all, Coronavirus is very real. Deaths from this pandemic world wide is in the region of 270,000 persons. In the United States of America, about 80,000 deaths have been recorded while the death toll in our own Nigeria has now reached about 3600. So it is real. From all of us here @pepple, our hearts go out to our brave health workers who are serving others on the front lines of this pandemic.…

COVID -19 AND POLICY SOMMERSAULTS

“If anyone of you lacks wisdom, let him ask of God, that giveth to all men liberally, and upbraideth not; and it shall be given him”. James 1:5 KJVA

These are trying times, indeed. Never before, in recent times, have we seen a pandemic that has affected the whole world at the same time. It has brought the world to its knees and crippled all aspects of life, and from the standpoint of Africa…

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The NDDC Sustainable Development Goals: A Bridge too far?

This piece is an attempt to examine the success or otherwise of the Niger Delta Regional Development Master Plan of the Niger Delta Development Commission [NDDC], which I have termed “sustainable development goals”, and which is intended to turn the region into an “African Dubai” by the year 2020.

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President Buhari And The Run against History.

Indeed history beckons for President Buhari. The task ahead is daunting, what with the inflation rate at 11.08 per cent, Unemployment rate 23.1 per cent, Youth Unemployment/Underemployment rate 55.4 per cent [Q3 2018]. Nigerian States and Federal Debt Stock data as at 31st March 2019 reflected that the country’s total public debt portfolio stood at N24.95trn. Nigeria’s Gross Domestic Product…

International Monetary Fund 2019 Article IV Nigeria Report.

The International Monetary Fund [IMF] said, in its just-released 2019 Article IV report on Nigeria, that Nigeria’s economy is recovering. But persisting structural and policy challenges continue to constrain growth to levels below those needed to reduce vulnerabilities, lessen poverty and improve weak human development outcomes, such as in health and education.

Please read the press release.

On…

Rivers State and Its Desperate Politicians.

I weep for Rivers State. We have got it all wrong. Our politicians are so desperate that they can kill, maim, burn, destroy, consume, vanquish anyone and everything on their way to power. What ordinarily ought to be a fair game of competition has now become a do or die, by all means, affairs. It is I or no one else. Rivers State has become a pariah state in the comity of states in Nigeria. It has…

President Buhari’s Speech after Receipt of Certificate of Return.

Today President Buhari and his Vice President, Prof. Osinbajo received from the Independent National Electoral Commission [INEC], the Certificate of Return which validated their success at the just concluded Presidential and National Assembly Elections.

In a speech read immediately after, the President said their Government will remain inclusive and doors open as it was the only way to build the…

#Nigeria Decides; President Muhammed Buhari it is.

Nigerians have indeed decided. The Presidential and National Assembly elections, 2019 which kicked off across the nation on Saturday, October 23, 2019, have now come to an end. The Presidential election was a very keenly contested race between the incumbent President, President Muhannadu Buhari of the All Progressives Congress [APC] and Alhaji Atiku Abubakar of the Peoples Democratic Party [PDP].

#3.The Politics of Governance in Rivers State.

The politics of governance in Rivers State, lest we forget. I wrote this piece in August 2017. Please compare and contrast what has been happening since then in the state, in your conscience and imagination, can you spot any difference? Please read on.

The 2015 general elections and the December 10, 2016 re-run elections in Rivers State have come and gone, even though some of the results are…

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