The APC merger negotiations have progressed very well with encouraging outcomes. It is to the credit of the leadership of the merging parties that so far issues of potential candidates, post-merger party leadership, etc. have not disrupted the merger negotiations. In fact, they have not so far emerged as serious contentious issues; although no doubt in not too distant future ... Read More »
It seems like the time of dominance for the Short Message Service (SMS) is about to come to an end. Why? Because according to recent research, SMS was responsible for only 17.6 billion of the messages sent daily in 2012 compared to the 19 billion sent by chat apps. This might not seem like much of a difference but this ... Read More »
“If you wanna be somebody, if you wanna go somewhere, you better wakeup and pay attention” was the message of Whoopi Goldberg to her exuberant young students in Sister Act. At a time when everything was crashing, lawlessness became pleasurable, conventions no longer tenable and all initiatives end up producing ... Read More »
Explosion spree in Borno. Baga! The name sounds explosive. The village has exploded. Baga ghosts are subscribing to the graveyard. Graveyard is full, dead bodies piled high, waiting for new graveyard to be commissioned by His Excellency. There is tears in town, sorrow resides on the streets of Baga. Landscape is desolated, fumes of blood everywhere. Families vanished with the ... Read More »
Governor Rotimi Amaechi has been severally praised for his results as Governor of Rivers State. Most of these are well deserved. He certainly makes the 8 years spent by Peter Odili look like nothing but wasted years for the people of Rivers. It is only normal that many see his success as enough reason ... Read More »
