By Engr. Ondeku During times of famine and, in the heat of it in Africa, a dog became pregnant in the town of Ifuan in Ghana and, because there was a ruling that banned everybody from birthing as measure to depopulate and mitigate the strength of starvation in that town; people and other…
*By Tunde Olusunle* The story was told at the onset of the Fourth Republic in 1999, about a challenge which confronted the media, as it sought to commence reportage of the new era. President Olusegun Obasanjo immediately he was inaugurated, rolled out a list of top government functionaries who were to serve in…
By K.S.S Enebe I want to start by asking the usual statement/question about “politics” branded as “Dirty Game or practice. To me, politics is like any other field of discipline or study like medicine, law, accounting administrations, engineering etc. Therefore, it’s the people that are involved in the game or practice of politics…
Barrister Julius Elukpo PHD is a household name in Kogi state. He was one of the founding fathers of the state. A University Don, legal icon and an entrepreneur per excellent. He is reputed to be the longest chairman of Elders forum in the state, the position he has held tenaciously to fight…
By Sheidu Danjuma Asaka, Ph.D Kogi State by all standards is a microcosm of Nigeria. It is a state dominated by three major ethnic groups namely: the Igalas of the East, the Okuns of the West and the Ebiras of the Central. Within these major groups are a number of ethnic minorities. For example,…
BY COMRADE OPALUWA ELEOJO SOMEON, B.Sc., M.Sc., CRIMINOLOGY AND SECURITY STUDIES. “One Chance” is slang for the violent crime perpetrated usually by criminals who use various methods to rob most times unsuspecting passengers of their belongings under the guise of being commercial driver. It can also be seen as criminals disguising themselves as passengers…
By Tunde Olusunle For my masters degree thesis 36 years ago, I was assigned to Prayag Tripathi, a bespectacled, painstaking and thorough Indian professor of English as my supervisor. His job contract unfortunately expired just before I submitted the last and concluding chapter of the work. Tripathi personally discussed with and reassigned me…
Whoever wishes or intend to make bumper harvest must do massive planting on a fertile soil garnished with strategic nourishments and conscious follow ups. As a people, we seem not to understand the potency or importance of the dictum above,there is no way you’ll reap Yam where you plant groundnuts, no, absolutely impossible….
Being a paper delivered by Dr Joe Okei-Odumakin, President, Women Arise & Centre for Change @ the 10th Year Memorial of Hon. Dele Deezy Tafa (1968-2012). Date: 3rd May, 2023 Venue: Civic Center, Magongo, Ogori/Magongo LGA, Kogi State. The return to democratic governance in 1999 has been fraught with several issues that withheld Nigeria…
By Hon Dr Onujabe Nasir. onujagbenasir@gmail.com (08033489385) History in any form is a good omen to mankind since is a reminder of the past, preservation of the present for future purposes. It provides opportunity for the younger generation to trace the path of their actions and know how to live peacefully and harmoniously in…
