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  Well known for his steadfast adherence to principles and thorough leadership, Professor Samuel Ogheneovo Asagba stands very tall as a man of great moral rectitude. His style of leadership has distinguished him as a hardworking and an upright Nigerian. Naturally zealous about development, the current Vice-Chancellor of Delta State University, Abraka comes across clearly as a competent hand that would not back away from a public interest policy. Perhaps, the most fascinating part of Asagba is that he is a reformer. A highly accomplished scholar, biochemist, and academic leader, Asagba's career reflects a lifelong dedication to excellence in research, education, and institutional development.  The seasoned academic with over three decades of experience in teaching, research, and university administration began his academic career at the Delta State University, where he steadily rose through the ranks, holding several strategic positions including: Head of Department of Biochem...

  BY DR AUSTIN ORETTE   It is becoming very tiresome to listen to the negative stories of corruption. It has become fashionable to ask the question “Can anything good come out of Nazareth? No day goes by without the story of corruption and people complaining incessantly about the odious system. With all the gall and bitterness that Nigerians complain about corruption, no one has defined the entity called corruption. Corruption here, corruption there and corruption everywhere but the Nigerian conveniently excludes himself as the purveyor of corruption. He is good while the other people are bad. His tribesmen are good because they are not in power. His barometer of corruption is always subjective. Corruption is an activity done by others but never us. If we are to build a just society we have to be honest with ourselves and understand that if corruption is a bacteria, it cannot grow in a sterile medium. To eradicate corruption, we have to examine ourselves and the role each and ...

  When I write about thorny issues of Biafra, the proponents of Biafra always tell me my observation is one-sided. This makes me laugh. What have they been doing since the end of the war? They have been telling one sided stories. I can’t help it but laugh. What were they expecting from me? Were they expecting a love letter that extols their braggadocio? Were they expecting me to accept the lies and grandiosity of Mr Kanu? This is ridiculous.    Nigerians are beginning to counter the lies that the Biafrans have been telling their children. These people are emotionally disturbed that the only answer they have is emotional subterfuge that short circuits the observation that led to our present discontent. Telling me that they are angry does not become a corollary to the facts that created our present history.    Most things the current Biafrans say are not factual and they Know it and also stretch the truth that makes any third party and independent observer give th...

 UNEASY NEIGHBOURS AND THE BIAFRA DIALOGUES  BY DR AUSTIN ORETTE   Lately, there have been eruption of kings and kingdoms of the Igbo people all over Nigeria and other parts of the world. If these occurrences were not being normalized, they will be easy to ignore.   Some months ago, I wrote that the two tribes militating against Nigeria progress are the Fulani and the Igbo. From the surface, they look different but their core ideology is the same.   I wrote a five part essay on how the Fulani people achieved their dominance of Nigeria. They used Religion. They are colonizers and they only want to be Nigerians if they are in charge.   The Igbo people only want to be in Nigeria if they are in charge. The South-East people want to achieve the same thing by using commerce and psychological warfare. Where the Fulani people are quiet, the Igbo people are haughty. You can hear their steps many miles away. The Fulani people are austere while the Igbo people are opp...

 GODSWILL AKPABIO : KEEPING IT IN PERSPECTIVE                    Sen.  Akpabio I received calls from ardent followers of my *KIIP* column to re-publish a piece I wrote on March 8, 2019 about Sen. Godswill Obot Akpabio’s political future after he lost the Senate race in 2019. The article was inspiredy by the negative press statement by Barr. Emmanuel Enoidem after Godswill lost the election. In the article, I made some  strong predictions about his political future, (while those that called me today say I 'prophesied”. Today, in the wake of his election as the Senate President, they ask me to publish the said article again. And I have hereby obliged.  And my solemn prayer is that may God guide him to use the powerful position, the third in Nigerian national protocol list, for the good benefits of the common man in the country and particularly his most neglected, often forgotten and vulnerable Annang women and children....