Anambra State commissioner for works Arc Calistus Ilozumba has been in the news lately for all sorts of reasons. Ilozumba it was who flew into an uncontrollable rage because his principal and kinsman Mr Peter Obi, governor of Anambra State was asked to justify the expenditure of the sum of N2 trillion, based on available infrastructure and delivery in the state. In the process, he described the call made by ...

The declaration of the state of emergency by President Jonathan Goodluck in the states of Borno, Yobe and Adamawa is desperate but uncalled for. It is a fruitless exercise that will neither lead to peace nor assist in ending the violence that has bedeviled some parts of northern Nigeria. It is an admission of failure on the side of the government to fashion out ways of addressing or tackling the root causes ...

  By Bamidele Aturu The events of the last one week or so in Nigeria have been quite scary and paralyzing. The unacceptable murder of police officers doing their duty to make the country safe in Nasarawa State, the killing of law enforcement agents in Bama, the forcible release of over 100 prisoners from a prison and the kidnap of Justice Rhodes-Vivour’s wife, daughter and driver were some of the grote ...

  Provocative! Indecent!! Abusive!!! These are the most appropriate words we can find to describe the language unfortunately employed by the Anambra State commissioner for Works, Arc Callistus Ilozumba to pollute a civilised debate on the Anambra State soapbox, dutifully flagged off by none but the founder of New Anambra State-liberated from the psychology of civil war defeat and the cave-holes of expl ...

Last week,  the security of the nation was once again put under severe test by the dreaded boko haram sect. In separate but co-ordinated attacks by the terrorist group 55 people including soldiers, policemen, prison officials and unarmed civilians were brutally  killed in Bama, Borno state. The Bama  prison was attacked leading to the illegal  release of 105 prisoners. In a similar tragic incident, a cult g ...

Northern leaders under the aegis of Arewa Consultative Forum (ACF) has voiced their opposition to the proposed inclusion of a six year single term tenure for president and governors in the Nigerian constitution now under-going amendment by the National Assembly. The single tenure provision was part of the recommendations made by the senate in the on-going process. The pro-North forum in a statement today by ...

We had set out from Abuja in the morning of Friday April 26, 2013 to Imo State to attend the funeral rites of the younger sister of the Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives Hon. Emeka Ihedioha. Our plane, a Bombardier jet owned by the Rivers State Government, landed at the airport in Owerri. It was in Owerri that the pilot of our plane was first tipped off that there is a plot to ground our plane ...

For obvious reasons, we have decided to ignore the several mouthy effusions of a turn-coat politician of Dan Orbih’s ilk not because we do not have something to say, but because we know his pitiable trajectory in life, the antecedents of his upbringing and the political “bouncing ball” mentality of his godfathers, gathering no moss like a rolling stone. For the purpose of keeping the records straight, this ...

A group with the name, Middle Belt Dialogue has cautioned President Goodluck Jonathan against an unconditional pardon for the islamist sect, Boko Haram. The body in an open letter signed by its leader, Emmanuel Alamu and sent to Mr Jonathan today also catalogued all the killings so far carried out across the country by the sect as a bitter reminder of its atrocities against christians. The letter obtained b ...

If you have ever wondered why our so called leaders treat us with so much disdain and neglect, the statement credited to Governor Rotimi Amaechi of River state at a public function recently should give you an idea of what is behind it. At a symposium organised by The Future Awards, TFA to brainstorm on how to find solutions to some of Nigeria’s problems, the governor was quoted to have said that there could ...