ShareShareTweetPin0 SharesBy Hon Eseme Eyiboh Let us begin with a confession. There is something unsettling about a politician who no longer appears to struggle. In the turbulent theatre of Nigerian politics, where noise is often mistaken for relevance, where primaries resemble wrestling contests and delegate management demands the instincts of a hostage negotiator, a man…
ShareShareTweetPin0 SharesBy Rt Hon Eseme Eyiboh The controversy surrounding the recent amendment to the Senate Standing Rules has generated more heat than light. Unfortunately, much of the public conversation has been framed around personalities rather than principles, and emotions rather than institutional logic. Yet the real issue before the Senate is neither about Senator Godswill…
Without a free and responsible press, ignorance and half-truths become the companions of the masses—offering little help for current development and no hope for the future. Please click the link to read more.
ShareShareTweetPin0 Shares•Set to pursue political solutions Fresh developments have emerged in the protracted dispute over the ownership of 76 offshore oil wells between Akwa Ibom State and Cross River State, as the Revenue Mobilisation Allocation and Fiscal Commission (RMAFC) has formally discarded the report of its Inter-Agency Technical Committee (IATC), effectively halting a process that…
ShareShareTweetPin0 SharesBy UduakAbàsi Ikpat There is a quiet but powerful culture in Nigeria’s South East that many parts of the country continue to admire and, increasingly, seek to emulate. It is the culture of enterprise embodied by the Igbo trader, the craftsman who begins with little but dreams big, the apprentice who learns the ropes…
In the aftermath of the successful neutralisation of Iran’s self-styled Supreme Leader, President Donald Trump says he knows who he would like to lead Iran going forward. But with ongoing exchange of fire, and likely Congressional halting of hostilities since Trump did not obtain prior legislative approval for the war, what are likely immediate scenarios in the conflict?
ShareShareTweetPin0 SharesBy Rt. Hon. Eseme Eyiboh Nigerian politics is not for the faint-hearted. It is noisy, dramatic, and often unforgiving. In a space where rumours travel faster than facts and headlines are written before the full story is known, substance can easily be drowned out. Real governance — the slow, patient work of building consensus, following…
At this year’s World Economic Forum held in Davos, US President Donald Trump launched what he calls Board of Peace, with mostly Arab/Muslim countries in attendance. It appears Europe isn’t in the mood for what is suspected to bea Trump show to dim the UN. CNN, with much editorialising takes a close look at the Board.
ShareShareTweetPin0 SharesBy Edet Okpo Senator Ekong Sampson is truly making a difference in the lives of his constituents, promoting healthcare, quality infrastructure, human empowerment and capacity building. His huge investment in education especially in the provision of scholarship and grants to students is no small feat, and it is clear that he is passionate about…
ShareShareTweetPin0 SharesBy Rt Hon Eseme Eyiboh Nigeria is a country that produces noise faster than it produces true heroes. Politics here moves at a velocity that forgives very little and forgets even less. To survive is one thing. To matter is another. To matter for nearly two decades at the highest levels of public life…
