Odimegwu Onwumere

Odimegwu Onwumere wrote in from Rivers State, Nigeria.

The Rivers International Education Consultants

To some people, it is a wonderful idea that Governor Amaechi has contracted Educomp Solutions, an Indian conglomerate, to manage the 24 model secondary schools that he is building in Rivers State. According to media reports credited to Amaechi, each of the schools that would accommodate about 1,000 students, cost the state government about N4.5bn...

Amaechi's Frustrations In The Hands Of Contractors

Road construction always signifies the giant steps of any government, especially in this part of the world where the leaders use the tax payers’ money to build infrastructures and wear the imminent credit accruing from them as if it was their personal money...

Rivers’ Paralytic Polio

Please, commend Governor Chibuike Amaechi of Rivers State and the Nigerian Governors’ Forum, NGF, for showing concern for the polio victims all over the country and bringing up the issue of polio in what was tagged the one day session national campaign against polio...

Bastardization of Love: Does God Read The Bible?

While many Christians, like the detractor, take cover under the disguise of being Christians and hoodwink people while still indulging in heinous practices, it is imperative to state here that God does not read the bible and does not even know what a bible is...

Rivers without Water

It should not take the Amaechi-led government till 2025 to realize some fundamental needs of the people, like drinkable water. People are tired of carrying big rubbers of water on their heads from distances. Amaechi should avoid situations where his promises and statements no longer excite the people...

Go-slow In Rivers State

A look at the menace of dilapidated roads in Rivers State under the Governor Chibuike Amaechi-led government could be likened to contributing to the enlarged enragement of many people...

Everything about them is greed

They do all the talking but do not want to listen to us talking. To them, the entire world is insufficient for seeking gains. They are hardnosed, greedy, tyrannical, and scandalous...

The Bond That Tears Rivers Apart

A press statement, Sunday 31st July, 2011, through the Chief Press Secretary to Governor Chibuike Amaechi of Rivers State, David Iyofor, said that the state needed N250 billion Bond...

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