Odimegwu Onwumere

Odimegwu Onwumere wrote in from Rivers State, Nigeria.

Amaechi, Contractors and the Future of Rivers State

Amaechi seemingly did not tighten up how contracts were awarded in Rivers State. He might say that it was not in his office to award contracts, but since this concerned his government, the criteria with which contracts were awarded then to mostly indigenes, were not committed to assiduous supervision...

Is Nyako in the Sambisa Forest?

It beats every sense of reasoning when a machinery of the Federal Government like the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, bemused the world with the statement that the former Adamawa State Governor, Admiral Murtala Nyako has escaped from the country after he was impeached as governor...

Rivers: Those That Would Abandon Amaechi

Around Amaechi are people one could call spoilers within. They are sharks that swallow both the small and big for the hunger of wealth...

Agents Of Satan Now In Abia

Abia State has become the devil’s den with daylight robberies, killings and kidnappings. The state has become a free for all place for killers and armed robbers...

Unsafe abortion: Young girls die out of lack of knowledge

Unsafe abortion has lingered as one of the chief factors for the increasing maternal death rate in the country. The level at which unsafe abortion is destroying the lives of young Nigerian women has become a cause for concern...

UNESCO: Unfounded figure of Nigerian Children out of School

The United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization, UNESCO can embarrass a nation it is serving with educational information when it goes out to do or permute funny numbers to...

Orji has no moral justification to congratulate Fayose

It is only in Orji’s Abia State that a government could not account for the money it has so far received from the Federation Account...

Akunyili, Bayero: So, Gov. T.A. Orji can express shock?

Governor Theodore Ahamefule Orji is really working in Abia State for only those he has marshaled out to be praising him, not for the collective well-being of the state...

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