L.Chinedu Arizona-Ogwu

Arizona-Ogwu writes from Oyigbo, Rivers State, Nigeria.

Nigeria And The Multinationals’ Intention: Oil Interest Or Social Influence?

Political will includes both a will to exercise self restraint and willingness to take politically risky decisions. Leaders are important for their value as role model. Especially in hero-worshiping cultures like Nigeria’s...

Constitutional Breaches: The Government Is Guilty!

The federal government is not just in Abuja .Actually, the federal government is a gigantic tapeworm with its mouth and brain in Abuja, and the rest of its innumerable segments curled through much of the land...

The Power Against People's Rights: What If Nigerians Are For Sale?

We no longer fully have what our ancestors, who framed and ratified our Constitution, thought of as freedom - a careful division of power that prevents power from becoming concentrated and unlimited...

The Lost Privilege And The Rivers Of Oil

In keeping with my uncanny ability always to be in the wrong place at the wrong time, I ventured to Rivers' political cycle just as various ethnic cysts were ramming polluted "Rivers Of Oil" packed with explosives into then habitable oil city...

Nigeria And The Greed-Ridden Democracy

Although this regime has a 7 point agenda to create vast amounts of wealth for the nation, unchecked, it does a poor job at redistributing the wealth...

Northernization and Yar'Adua's Duty Roll-Call

The Yar'Adua administration faces serious challenges on several fronts: strengthening the economy, abating restiveness, creating jobs and reducing unemployment; competitiveness in the global market...

Democratic Rights And The Basic Rules Of Politics

Changing the basic rules of politics is a risky venture that is hardly resorted to unless they become imperative. As a rule the changes are the outcome of circumstances or the result of a scenario where people lose their faith in the existing system...

Doctors' Strike: The Fear And The Tear!

Unfortunately, too many of Nigerians suffered or lost their lives because they weren’t given the right clinical diagnosis, right medicine and or the proper medicine application...

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