The Ogoninews publisher Mr. Fegalo Nsuke caught up with Mr. Ben Ikari who is a prominent Ogoni activist and the following questions drew his responses below. OGN: What is your assessment of the gains of the Ogoni struggle since 1993? Ikari: Thanks so very much for granting me the opportunity to further add my voice … Read more
Yet despite the desperate attempt to supress the facts and keep these tragic events out of public glare, the anger of the people continues to boil and their rage is mounting. Chief Kataps Ngwii of the Christian Information Network wrote the following: “Goska, Southern Kaduna, 25th December, 2016: another Fulani herdsmen raid, destruction and killings. … Read more
The Ogoninews publisher Mr. Fegalo Nsuke caught up with Mr. Ben Ikari who is a prominent Ogoni activist and the following questions drew his responses below. OGN: What is your assessment of the gains of the Ogoni struggle since 1993? Ikari: Thanks so very much for granting me the opportunity to further add my voice … Read more
When Boko Haram fighters decided to release some of the 200 Chibok schoolgirls kidnapped two-and-a-half years ago in northeast Nigeria, Asabe Goni did not think that she would be among the girls allowed to go home. During their time in captivity the girls were encouraged to convert to Islam and to marry their kidnappers, with … Read more
More than 20 Nigerian “Chibok girls” who were released by the Islamist group Boko Haram in October have rejoined their families for Christmas. It is the girls’ first return home since they were kidnapped from their school in Chibok in April 2014. The young women were freed in October after Switzerland and the International Red … Read more
I LIVED in Ghana continuously for about three years from January 6, 2013 and thought President John Mahama could easily be defeated by a determined opponent. This was what happened on December 7, elections when his challenger from the New Patriotic Front (NPP) Nana Akufo-Addoh beat him securing 5,716, 026 or 53.85 percent of the … Read more
People tend to be alarmed when the Nigerian Presidency takes certain decisions. They don’t think the decision makes sense. Sometimes, they wonder if something has not gone wrong with the thinking process at that highest level of the country. I have heard people insist that there is some form of witchcraft at work in the … Read more
THE MEANING OF MMM – In truth, MMM is a Ponzi scheme. Wikipedia defines a Ponzi scheme as “a fraudulent investment operation where the operator, an individual or organization, pays returns to its investors from new capital paid to the operators by new investors, rather than from profits earned through legitimate sources.” Ponzi scheme promises … Read more
So many writers have done so many stories about the civil war that broke out in Nigeria between 1967 and 1970. In the war, sadly, at least 3 million people lost their lives. Properties worth trillions of naira were destroyed. It is more than 45 years since. 45 years and still, strong echoes of the … Read more
At the end of the Biafran War many experts came to the conclusion that genocide had been committed against the Igbo by the Nigerian government. In an effort to suppress the scandal, the Nigerian government with some help from Great Britain worked frantically to cover up the news about the atrocities. For almost fifty years … Read more
The immediate last Hajj exercise was indeed successful that it is worth reviewing. It started with the first batch of Nigerian pilgrims departing Sokoto and landing safely at Prince Muhammad bin Abdul-Aziz International Airport in Madinah on Monday August 8, 2016, at about 10.40 pm (Saudi time) on board Max Air fleet no. NGL1001. The … Read more
Over the past couple of months, local cement manufacturers in the nation have greatly expressed concern over unfair competition by foreign producers, particularly Nigeria’s Dangote Cement. Complaints directed to the government include that the activities of the foreign companies on the market makes their operational cost very unfavorable. One of the country’s leading cement producers, Diamond Cement … Read more
Local cement producers in the country have in the past months complained bitterly to government over unfair competition by importers of cement from other countries as well as the operation of Dangote Cement. This has brought untold operational difficulties on local cement producers since the market does not favour their operational cost. Direct effect of … Read more
President John Mahama has said his government will ensure Dangote Cement competes fairly in the Ghanaian market if investigations by the Ghana International Trade Commission find that the Nigerian cement company is enjoying certain subsidies and tax holidays in Africa’s most populous country, which give it certain advantages over local cement manufacturers in Ghana. Local … Read more
A Nigerian armed group said the continued presence of the army in the southern Niger Delta energy hub has undermined peace talks and prompted attacks on oil-and-gas facilities in the region. The Niger Delta Avengers (NDA) spoke out days after the oil minister urged fighters to stop attacks following strikes on the Trans Forcados Pipeline, … Read more
The Nigerian government on Wednesday expressed its readiness to partner with the Ukrainian government in military technology and equipment. The West African country’s Chief of Defense Staff (CDS) Abayomi Gabriel Olonisakin disclosed this when he hosted Ambassador of Ukraine to Nigeria, Valerii Aleksandruk, at the Defense Headquarters in Abuja, the nation’s capital. Earlier, Aleksandruk commended … Read more
USAID Deploys Disaster Assistance Response Team to Nigeria USAID is promoting an increasingly proactive monitoring approach to quickly report on the alarming conditions in newly accessible parts of northeastern Nigeria The U. S. Agency for International Development (USAID) announced today that it is dispatching a Disaster Assistance Response Team (DART) to Nigeria to support Government … Read more
Soyinka changes tune says he won’t destroy U. S. permit yet after Trump win Nobel laureate, Professor Wole Soyinka, Wednesday, stated that he will not destroy his United States’ residency permit just yet; while he warned that the victory of Donald Trump in the U.S. presidential race could jeopardize U.S. support in Nigeria’s fight against … Read more
I will not destroy my U. S. residency permit just yet – Soyinka Nobel laureate, Professor Wole Soyinka, Wednesday, stated that he will not destroy his United States’ residency permit just yet; while he warned that the victory of Donald Trump in the U.S. presidential race could jeopardize U.S. support in Nigeria’s fight against Boko … Read more
At the largest annual gathering of African entrepreneurs, held in Lagos, Nigeria, the Tony Elumelu Foundation (TEF) hosted almost 1,000 women and men from 54 African countries, for the 2nd TEF Entrepreneurship Forum. The Forum celebrates the 2016 cohort of Elumelu Entrepreneurs, selected from over 45,000 applicants. It is the annual highlight of the Tony … Read more