Tag: Pius Mordi
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A race to waste more money – By Pius Mordi
There is race among state governors on who will build the most expensive and ineffectual and, perhaps, useless edifices. At first it was airports in their capital cities. It costs a lot of money to build one and only the federal government built new ones in the second republic.
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Supreme Court’s travesty on Sunday Jackson – By Pius Mordi
Sunday Jackson is a farmer in his community in Adamawa State. While working in his farm sometime in 2020, he was attacked by a Fulani man who posed as a herdsman.
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NASS’ ‘Naira abuse’ street party – By Pius Mordi
I supported Olanipekun Olukoyede’s war against spraying of the Naira at parties and how it was trampled upon. It is abhorrent, disdainful and insulting to our collective psyche. Rightly, his Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) moved against the practice.
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Dickson and Amaechi’s hunger game – By Pius Mordi
Seriously, I didn’t know Seriake Dickson had it in him. At the 60th birthday anniversary lecture for Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi, the former Bayelsa State governor and serving senator, used bare-knuckle punches at the promoters of the ‘coalition’ to unseat President Bola Ahmed Tinubu in 2027.
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Is Nigeria not at war? – By Pius Mordi
When Pope Leo XIV gave his inaugural sermon during the Mass to formally commence his pontificate, it was so gratifying he re-echoed the message his predecessor, Pope Francis, had always harped on throughout his headship of the Catholic Church. Addressing the “powerful people of the world,” he said the bloodletting in conflict zones in the…
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Peter Obi-mania! – By Pius Mordi
What started as isolated rantings of an attention-seeking wannabe critic and was treated as clownish vituperations has dovetailed into a growing industry in Nigeria’s political space. With just a few months to the presidential election of 2023, nobody paid attention when he resigned from the then established Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to pick the ticket…
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The morbid, brazen heist at NNPC – By Pius Mordi
Let’s cut President Bola Tinubu some slack. Yes, he is also the Minister of Petroleum. But he cannot be everywhere or know everything. That is why he has a Chief of Staff and designated somebody a Minister of State for Petroleum Resources. As Chief of Staff, Femi Gbajabiamila is virtually the alternate president. He determines…
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Blimey, opposition governors rooting for Tinubu’s reelection! – By Pius Mordi
There’s a shift in Nigerian politics of seismic proportion going on. As governance gives way to the politics of another electoral cycle in 2027 with many seeking reelection to their offices, especially those of the president and many governors, a new game is playing out. Governors of states run by opposition parties are taking
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Weaning states from the national grid – By Pius Mordi
Last week, an ecstatic Sheriff Oborevwori signed into law, a bill he touted as a “game changer”. It was the Delta State Electricity Power Sector Law Bill 2024. Since the Electricity Distribution Companies were created in what was supposed to be a commercialisation and privatisation exercise, it had been a tale of betrayal of
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Uromi killings and sectarian scourge in Nigeria – By Pius Mordi
As despicable as the killing of some people described as hunters was, followers of developments in the area would not be entirely surprised. It was gory to apprehend some young men and unilaterally decide to not just kill them but get their bodies burnt. That the fairly large crowd of community people that witnessed the