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If Nigeria Is So Rich, Why Are Nigerians So Poor?

By John Campbell

Femi Awoyemi, in a lucid and thoughtful article in the April 5 Leadership (Abuja) highlights that more than ninety percent of Nigeria’s population is poor “and exists largely at the mercy of fate.” Read the rest of this entry

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Amaechi’s Economic Environment

It is becoming glaring everyday that Governor Chibuike Amaechi of Rivers State is turning a new leaf. Unlike in his first tenure he didn’t and was not caring about the common citizen, entirely. This time, he is making sure that the wealth of Rivers State ends up evenhandedly on the area of facilities. Read the rest of this entry

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Leyii Kwanee tasks Journalists on Advocacy

By David Amusa

The Deputy Speaker of Rivers State House of Assembly, Hon. Leyii Kwanee has implored Nigerian Journalists to engage in advocacy in order to accelerate development of the nation. Read the rest of this entry

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2015 : ‘The moment for Tonye Princewill’

EVEN as discussions and permutations ahead of 2015 general elections are yet going on in hushed voices, political watchers believe that this is the moment for Prince Tonye Princewill, the Prince of Niger Delta Politics. For nearly a decade, Princewill has remained a dominant voice in the political firmament of Rivers State, Read the rest of this entry

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Press Statement: NLC calls on Jonathan to punish fuel subsidy “thieves”

Fuel subsidy, which revealed the criminal looting of the nation’s resources, is a vindication of the Nigerian peoples protest on the issue. Read the rest of this entry

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