Peter Claver Oparah

The Niger Delta is in ferment and with it the Nigerian state and the entire world oil industry. For now, the hottest issue in international oil politics is how to deal with the cyclical Niger Delta problem...

I don’t think much of the intention of the Yar’Adua government to reform the electoral process. Although he had empanelled a body, with a sprinkle of some credible personages, he and his government have showed disturbing streaks of abhorrence towards reforming the rouge system...

It is debatable whether the troika of Babangida, Buhari and Abdulsalami Abubakar would insult us with the recent suggestion of Abacha saintlihood were Obasanjo not the woeful failure he was in the last eight years...

Most Nigerians have refused to be part of what happens in Nigeria every May 29 since 1999. They don’t tie their increasingly pathetic fate to the bacchanal revelry and obscene self-celebration that have been the hallmark of May 29...

Ohakim has a message for Ndigbo; don’t continue dwelling in self-pity, stop lamenting the tragedies of the civil war because the civil war is over, stop blaming others for your woes, work to attain whatever you want to attain...

As I am writing, the nation is practically on its knees with nothing, absolutely nothing, but official stealing working in Nigeria. The roads are wearing desolate looks with the imminence of the rains...

I found everything wrong with the queer sense of justice behind most of the recent election tribunal judgments where offences were established and no offender identified...

For the umpteenth time, Anambra State is embroiled in a man-made crisis, staged to arrest the peace and progress of the state. Predictably, the provocateurs of the present crisis are the same as the ones that have spent a great chunk of their active time sowing dread, confusion and disorder in Anambra...