Politics

Will Fubara return as Rivers Governor? Anyone who believes that after six months, Tinubu will recall Fubara must be living in a fool’s paradise. That is definitely not Tinubu’s plan and it won’t happen unless he sees fire in the eyes of the people. If the idea was for Fubara to come back after six months, then there would have been no need for the state of emergency in the first place. By IKECHUKWU AMAECHI The question that continues to agitate many minds in Nigeria today is: Will Siminalayi Fubara return as the governor of Rivers State after serving out the…

That the 10th Senate has become a theatre of the absurd is an understatement. What is worse, the situation is getting more bizarre by the day, a situation which the theatre critic labelled “the absurdity of the absurd.” Truth be told, Akpabio has done terrible damage to the law making arm of government by his unreasonableness. It is high time he stopped being silly. By IKECHUKWU AMAECHI My March 13, 2025 column titled, “Akpoti-Uduaghan’s suspension: The joke is on Akpabio, Senate,” elicited diverse comments. I would have been surprised if it didn’t. The roforofo between Senate President Godswill Akpabio and…

By IKECHUKWU AMAECHI Thirty years ago, women made a bold global declaration in what came to be known as the Beijing Conference. The 1995 Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action, which was adopted at the Conference, stressed the need to uphold all human rights and fundamental freedoms for every woman without exception. Since then, most governments have adopted by consensus a political declaration to respect, protect, and champion the rights, equality and empowerment of women, a fact which Sima Bahous, Under-Secretary General and Executive Director of UN Women, reiterated at the ongoing 69th session of the Commission in New York,…

By IKEDDY ISIGUZO Every man got a right to decide his own destiny; And in this judgment there is no partiality - Bob Marley in his 1979 song, Zimbabwe SENATOR Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan did not need to commit any offence to be suspended. Evidence abounds that His Excellency, Dr Obong Godswill Akpabio, was ready to inflict maximum punishment in a case in which he was the principal accused. The Senate was tangential to the matter. Its inclusion as an institutional victim of Natasha’s allegations against Akpabio failed woefully to befuddle the issues. Natasha was seemingly being punished for not accepting seats…

By SHEDDY OZOENE All through the last Yuletide, the grapevine in Enugu State was abuzz with speculations that Chijioke Edeoga, the Labour Party (LP) state governorship candidate in the 2023 election, was getting restless watching political actions from the sidelines. Speculations centred on his possible move away from the party on which platform he came close to becoming the state’s helmsman, to either the All Progressives Congress (APC) that holds sway at the federal level or the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) that was his nemesis in 2023. Reports of his closed door meetings with leaders of the PDP in the…

By SHEDDY OZOENE The crisis that has plagued the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in recent months, finally blew into the open last Wednesday as the party’s 79th Board of Trustees meeting turned into a ring for a physical fight. The bitter contest for the position of the party’s national secretary between Senator Samuel Anyanwu and former Youth Leader, Sunday Ude-Okoye had turned into fisticuffs as loyalists of both men engaged in a free for all. The forceful removal of Ude-Okoye from the BOT meeting, which had Anyanwu in attendance, had incensed his supporters who engaged Anyanwu’s loyalists in a fruitless…