Although I would want the Saraki trial to continue – to serve as deterrence to other negligent or fraudulent public officers – I can’t help agreeing with those who say that the latest ruling of the Code of Conduct Tribunal is a discriminatory application of the law and an affront to fair hearing principle enshrined […]
Ogbuagu Anikwe
Ogbuagu Bob Anikwe, a veteran journalist and message development specialist, is now a community journalism advocate and publisher of Enugu Metro. Contact him on any of the channels below.
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Lagos, their Lagos
I escaped from Lagos yesterday, after spending three days of pure torment on her roads. I’ve come to the conclusion that, in order to continue to cling to this madness, a resident must carry about a bag of patience and hope (hope that the traffic situation will somehow, magically, improve in the nearest future). Thank […]
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Survive the Peace
Most of my friends who are APC sympathisers have advised that the government slows down or abandons it’s current resort to “propaganda” and instead embrace “strategic communication” as a better strategy to win the soul of EVERYBODY and thereby inaugurate the peace it needs to govern. I buy the objective but am not sure that […]
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Governor Tambuwal is the Man
I just read the story of the release of Patience Paul, the school girl who was abducted and turned into a sex slave in Sokoto. According to the lawyer who represented the family, Governor Aminu Tambuwal called immediately he read of the story and promptly initiated actions that got the girl freed from her abductors. […]
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Fulani Herders, the Case For
These are some of the viewpoints I’ve come across so far, in support of doing nothing about this problem that Nigeria is confronting, and as both herders and local farmers pay the terrible cost with their lives and their property: 1. Is it because Buhari is now in power that you want to play politics […]
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A Vile Murder in the Social Media
Before you post your next FB comment on the unfolding Ese tragedy, here’s an objectivity test, and it applies to all, whether you are a northerner, a wailer, an Ijaw, a Christian, Muslim or a traditional religionist. Ask yourself: “If this thing had been done to my little sister or daughter, what will I write […]
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A headache called Judiciary
The President’s headache is different from the headache of the common people on dispensation of justice
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Rev. Fr. Mbaka's Lemon
The news is that Rev. Fr. Ejike Mbaka, the stormy petrel of the Catholic Church, has been transferred from GRA Enugu to a parish at Emene as a resident priest. For the record, a resident priest is an official guest in a parish where he is posted to carry out a special assignment. The resident […]
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On the Kogi Conundrum
Wada & late Audu… before it all went down I’m worried about this Kogi matter. I know we always disagree on political matters but don’t you think, like me, that my party the APC is wrong? I just want to pick your brain if you don’t mind. Pick the brain of a clueless man? Hahahaha! […]
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The President as a Minister
The ambiguity in having a president directly supervise an MDA played out again yesterday 24 October 2015 in the National Assembly as Senators sought to summon President Muhammadu Buhari to explain the current fuel scarcity in the country. A motion on the floor by Enyinnaya Abaribe (PDP, Abia) to invite the President to explain why […]
