L.Chinedu Arizona-Ogwu

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

“Health Is Waste”, They Say!

Nigerians are worried over ostensible reluctance of the aspiring politicians. Their inability to tell the people what they have to offer when the whole country goes to polling boots to elect them into offices, this year, is one pain...

These Nigerian Aspirants:  To Rule-Up Or Run-Down The Nation?

The people of Nigeria are pinning their hopes that their plight and wishes are addressed by the next government regardless of the ethnicity-trend...

Harm The Poor Governance In Nigeria!

In order to confront the economic downturn, the whole world has resorted to expansionary monetary policy, reducing interest rates to historical low in order to jumpstart the economy, enhance financial activities and create jobs; Nigeria needs to learn from these actions...

Voters Registration: Looking at the Mistakes and Misgivings!

Voter registration is the most crucial of all steps involved in holding an election. Anyone with common sense would understands that voter registration and preparation of voters’ list tells it all...

Nigeria may be ‘fragile’, Not a failed State!

Political violence has by and large been a part of the nation’s political lexicon for a very long time. In a sense, therefore, one could say that it is all part of the process, that indeed in our effort towards creating a fully functioning system of democracy, it is quite natural for us to come to terms with such realities...

Saving Nigeria’s Economy: Sanusi In The National Assembly

It is a popular joke that a carpenter of a developed country becomes an engineer when he comes to any project in a third world country. Those statements sum-up the effect of misusing our collective resources; money and wealth by those in authority...

My Nigeria and my social responsibility

Patriotism may indeed be the last refuge of Nigerian people. But despite that, it is never a wise thing to question a person’s integrity only because he or she does not agree with the accuser...

Revealing Port Harcourt!

In Port Harcourt, as I’m writing this piece, the nightmarish traffic congestion is no more. In almost all parts of the city, there is no more regular load shedding, loss of underground water level, severe environmental pollution, over-flooding of storm drainage, no more lack of adequate open space and play areas...

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