Opinion

I am constrained and surprise at the way the Kogi state chapter of Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) has decided to keep mute at the permanent 35 or 40% salary payments to teachers and pensioners in the local government segment in the state. For more than four years now, these set of people are marginalized compared…

Courtesies. It gives me joy to once again welcome all of us to yet another Press Week of the Kogi State Council of Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ) despite the challenges faced by the Council and its members, we are here gathered again to celebrate the end of another Journalistic year. It is the practice…

It’s up to the voters now.  An anxious and divided nation, gripped in the most serious health and economic crises of modern times, finishes voting Tuesday in what both sides describe as the most crucial presidential election in their lifetimes. Partisans for President Donald Trump and Democratic challenger Joe Biden who disagree on almost everything…

Time Tested Tradition. Notwithstanding the glory , reverence and extreme privilege bothering on deification that comes with ascending the throne of the Attah Igala, the contest for the stool has over time been devoid of the desperate, acrimonious and cutthroat competition that is often associated with the tussle for royal stools in other lands ….

It would have been the greatest miracle of our time if Chief Olabode George, the Atona Oodua  of Yorubaland, who, ironically, has been unable to identify or chart a clear political, ideological or moral path for himself personally, had not seized the opportunity of the current #End SARS crisis to launch a vitriolic but largely…

Last night I tuned to Channels for a 10pm news; little did I know that I was going to watch an upcoming actor, Dr Saka Haruna in a show of awful performance. Like every Kogite I have had sleepless nights over the incident in Kogi state where criminals overran a peaceful protest and took advantage…

By Aminu Isa When it was announced that former finance minister Dr.Ngozi Okonjo- Iweala will be aspiring for the position of the DG of the WTO, I was least exited and in fact, optimistic that she will clinch the position having worked with sister’s Bretton Woods institution,The World Bank ( WB) for decades. Even though…

Not many remember what happened in Riyom, Plateau state many years ago. In case you’re among the many who didn’t, this story of mine will refresh your memory.I met my wife, Rhoda in the UK. She was on a state government scholarship and she emerged as one of the best graduating students in her institution….

Today Friday 23, October 2020 I visited Confluence Breed International School Lokoja,I was taking round by the proprietor of the school,Hon. Shiru Lawal,the former administrator of Lokoja Local Goverment. I was impressed with what I saw particularly,the educational equipments.and setting arrangements for the incoming pupils,where each class will accommodate twelve pupils. The school is one…

|Having eliminated their neighbours, they often find that it becomes much more difficult to keep their body and soul together. For, where families have lived as neighbours for years, even if not for generations, the elimination of the rnembers of one family by members of the other, in these violence communal conflicts, leaves wound in…