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2 months ago | 
centurypost.com.ng | Reno Omokri |Valentine Obienyem |Emeka Alex Duru
On Monday, April 13, governors on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) met in Ibadan, the Oyo State capital. Their discussion centred on matters affecting the party, including plans for the 2027 presidential election. Among the governors at the meeting were Senator Douye Diri (Bayelsa), Ahmadu Fintiri (Adamawa), Caleb Mutfwang (Plateau), Sheriff Oborevwori (Delta), Agbu Kefas (Taraba), Peter Mbah (Enugu), and Dauda Lawal (Zamfara).
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Jan 13, 2025 | 
nationaldailyng.com | Emeka Alex Duru
Nigerians need issues of hunger and poverty presently holding them down to be tackled. They need assurances of a better future for their children. They need adequate security for their businesses and properties. These are the issues that matter to the citizens. Peter Obi is not the issue.
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Jan 10, 2025 | 
daylightng.com | Emeka Alex Duru
In my article of November 3, 2023 on, ‘How democracy dies in Nigeria’, I made extrapolations from the 2018 publication on comparative politics by Harvard University political scientists, Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt, titled; ‘How Democracies Die’. The book alerts on how leaders can subvert the democratic process to increase their power.
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Dec 29, 2024 | 
newtelegraphng.com | Emeka Alex Duru
You may notice the subtle attempts by the political leadership to push the blame of the recent mishaps at the food distribution centres on the organisers of the events. The agenda seems to be working. Thus, the organisers are being painted as careless or even reckless. They have become scapegoats or fall guys, as we say in popular lingo.
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Dec 14, 2024 | 
newtelegraphng.com | Emeka Alex Duru
You may have noticed the various dimensions the tax reform proposal by President Bola Tinubu is assuming. It is gradually taking the pattern of a typical Nigerian public affair, featuring those flaunting their support for the president and those perceived to be against him. Politicians on both sides are regaining their voices and posturing as defenders of the people, 19 months into an administration that has left Nigerians without much to advertise except hunger and miseries.
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Dec 8, 2024 | 
centurypost.com.ng | Chidi Amuta |Emeka Alex Duru
You may have noticed the various dimensions the tax reform proposal by President Bola Tinubu is assuming. It is gradually taking the pattern of a typical Nigerian public affair, featuring those flaunting their support for the president and those perceived to be against him. Politicians on both sides are regaining their voices and posturing as defenders of the people, 19 months into an administration that has left Nigerians without much to advertise except hunger and miseries.
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Dec 5, 2024 | 
thenicheng.com | Emeka Alex Duru |Ikechukwu Amaechi
I consider the controversies on the reform bills needless and distracting. Bad enough, even the presidency that owns the proposals, lacks appropriate communication strategies to market the agenda. By Emeka Alex DuruYou may have noticed the various dimensions the tax reform proposal by President Bola Tinubu is assuming. It is gradually taking the pattern of a typical Nigerian public affair, featuring those flaunting their support for the president and those perceived to be against him.
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Nov 29, 2024 | 
nationaldailyng.com | Emeka Alex Duru
Some other famished and fleeting characters, like Reno Omokri and Asari Dokubo, seeking rehabilitation, have on occasions adopted Igbo bashing as route to recognition and prominence. These incidences of talking down on the Igbo or working against them without consequences, must have emboldened Abati to toe the odious path. On Friday, March 17, 2023, I did an article titled, “Igbo as scapegoat of Lagos politics”.
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Nov 29, 2024 | 
centurypost.com.ng | Emeka Alex Duru
On Friday, March 17, 2023, I did an article titled, “Igbo as scapegoat of Lagos politics.” In it, I recalled observations of Prof Chinua Achebe in his concise book, The Trouble With Nigeria, that Nigerians of all other ethnic groups will probably achieve consensus on no other matter than their common resentment of the Igbo.
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Nov 28, 2024 | 
thenicheng.com | Emeka Alex Duru |Ikechukwu Amaechi
Some other famished and fleeting characters, like Reno Omokri and Asari Dokubo, seeking rehabilitation, have on occasions adopted Igbo bashing as route to recognition and prominence. These incidences of talking down on the Igbo or working against them without consequences, must have emboldened Abati to toe the odious path. By Emeka Alex DuruOn Friday, March 17, 2023, I did an article titled, “Igbo as scapegoat of Lagos politics”.
