Dokubo Goodhead

Mr. President, you may have one year in office, but you can have such a hell of a year that you leave indelible marks on the pages of history…

For several days now, stories have been circulating about your health. The rumor mill has gone into overdrive with all kinds of speculations, including the one that you are at death’s door because you are suffering from a very pernicious form of pericarditis, as well as the chronic kidney ailment that you have had for some time now…

Before I get to the subject of this letter, let me start by saying a very big thank you to you for the revolutionary decision you have taken to transfer ten percent of the proceeds of the joint venture partnership between the central government and the oil companies to the oil-bearing communities…

Before I begin this letter, let me quickly issue a disclaimer: I am writing to you as a fellow Rivers person and lover of the state, not as a seeker of political office. Let me now go to the subject of the letter: Governor Rotimi Amaechi and the waterside slum settlements…

Before I begin this letter, let me quickly issue a disclaimer: I am writing to you as a fellow Rivers person and lover of the state, not as a seeker of political office. Let me now go to the subject of the letter: Governor Rotimi Amaechi and the waterside slum settlements…

A coterie of the ruling elite, surprisingly not just in the North, where the Bala Na’Allahs were calling for a Final Solution, but elsewhere, talked about the fire and brimstone that the central government would unleash on the Niger Delta if the fighters of the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta do not accept the amnesty…

A coterie of the ruling elite, surprisingly not just in the North, where the Bala Na’Allahs were calling for a Final Solution, but elsewhere, talked about the fire and brimstone that the central government would unleash on the Niger Delta if the fighters of the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta do not accept the amnesty…

Madam Secretary, the people of the Niger Delta will be immensely grateful to you, President Obama, and the good people of the United States, if the U.S. government would intervene to ensure that the oil companies stop flaring gas in the Niger Delta, replace dilapidated pipes, be proactive about oil spills, and embark on remedial measures to restore the oil-ravaged rivers of the Niger Delta…

Mr. Prime Minister, the impending military campaign and the state of anomie in the Niger Delta are totally avoidable, if you and other leaders of goodwill will step up the diplomatic work and help solve the Niger Delta Problem once and for all…

Mr. Prime Minister, the impending military campaign and the state of anomie in the Niger Delta are totally avoidable, if you and other leaders of goodwill will step up the diplomatic work and help solve the Niger Delta Problem once and for all…

Mr. Prime Minister, the impending military campaign and the state of anomie in the Niger Delta are totally avoidable, if you and other leaders of goodwill will step up the diplomatic work and help solve the Niger Delta Problem once and for all…

Mr. Prime Minister, the impending military campaign and the state of anomie in the Niger Delta are totally avoidable, if you and other leaders of goodwill will step up the diplomatic work and help solve the Niger Delta Problem once and for all…

Mr. President, your Foreign Minister, Mr. Ojo Madueke, has summarily dismissed the idea of the internationalization of the peace initiative, arguing that the use of foreign mediators would amount to the surrendering of our sovereignty…

How do these peddlers of secession position the Ijaw with regard to the plight of the black person not only in Nigeria, but on the African continent? If they are only about what we could do with the oil in our backyard, should we not be suspicious of their claims of altruism?

How do these peddlers of secession position the Ijaw with regard to the plight of the black person not only in Nigeria, but on the African continent? If they are only about what we could do with the oil in our backyard, should we not be suspicious of their claims of altruism?

Perhaps hurt that your offer of amnesty to the Niger Delta militants was rejected, and perhaps no longer willing to accept the general atmosphere of malaise in the Niger Delta that has driven away investors from the region and made life difficult for its inhabitants, you have decided to give the green light to the Nigerian military…