VIEWPOINTS

The current climate of opinion in the country that looks upon corruption in public offices as a threat to the society calls for celebration on the part of the government. But this celebration is also viewed as superficial by some commentators as the purported achievement only exists in the frame. …

“Youths are the leaders of tomorrow’, so we have been told over and over again. The truism in this weather-beaten rhetoric presupposes that the current crop of leaders at both state and federal levels shall at one time or the other yield the reins of leadership to the youths. But …

If 2014/2015 was a year we played dirty and nice just to sell our individual candidates, be prepared to have triple fold of it in 2018/2019 Delta Gubernatorial. It’s a fight to finish. The dice we threw then will be changed. The dance beat will also change, not because the …

Please, brothers and sisters, join me today in this great journey of sacrifice, to secure our future and say no to tyranny. I will not just sit and lie to you that it is going to be easy. We are not embarking on this journey for selfish interest. I am …

With the newly constituted council executives and legislative arms formally inaugurated recently and have commenced works in their various local government councils, Ika Weekly Newspaper reporter recently went round Boji-Boji Metropolis to seek the views of Ika residents about what they expect from the new local government council executive. Though …

One inherent challenge associated with opinion writing in Nigeria is that intellectually, opinions are more often accepted but politically rejected without justification;  a development that presents the writer’s effort as a baggage of goodness without good luck. However, despite these incessant rejections, opinion writing neither abates nor wanes.  Instead, it …

There have been a lot of occurrences in the Nigerian political landscape in the recent time. Most of these are so funny that one hardly finds the right adjectives to qualify them. And even though they have been captured under the above headline, it remained a difficult task to provide …

Though the LG election in Delta state has come and gone, leaving the entire Deltans as ‘causalities’, not of a civil war but a deformed democratic process occasioned by the will of man. An outcome that has, in turn, left the proponents of disorder praying in their inner selves for …

From observations, there is no doubt that our leaders are experts, PMB inclusive,in listening without being attentive to the masses; an attribute that has, in turn, made their relationship with the people civil but cold. A situation occasioned by our handler’s inability to learn that ‘success is a lousy teacher …

There was a veiled agreement among stakeholders at a recent gathering in Lagos, that the governments in Nigeria at all levels are shirking the traditional but universal responsibility of provision of economic and infrastructural succor to the citizenry which the instrumentality of participatory democracy and election of leaders confer on …