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Aug

16

2024

Edo 2024: Of Mute Monday, Dancing Olumide And Astute Asue… A Choice So Simple.

Metro, News, Opinion, PoliticsEdo State, Nwaokobia Jnr, Politics

The politics of Edo State Governorship contestation have been very intriguing since the return to civil rule in 1999. Very curiously however, the 2024 Edo State Governorship Election appears the simplest and the most predictable. Not in anyway denigrating the league of other contestants for the high office of Governor of Edo State, what is largely before us is a Three-horse race. We have Monday Okpebholo, the candidate of the All Progressive Congress APC, the Ruling Party at the Centre. We have Olumide Akpata, the candidate of the Labour Party LP. And we have Asue Ighodalo A.I, the candidate of…

Aug

04

2024

By Amos Oge Kalu

“..And Finally Mr. President Spoke Without Listening”

Column, News, Opinion, PoliticsChris Nwaokobia, Nwaokobia Jnr, Opinion, Politics

Shame on the handlers of this Presidency. Shame on Mr. President. Shame on the All Progressive Congress APC. Shame on all those who have direct access to Mr. President but cannot tell him the Truth. And shame to all those who undermine the extent to which an aggrieved people can go. Unfortunately, President Bola Ahmed Tinubu appears to have been ensconced and removed from all those who can tell him the Truth. Mr. President has continued on the same trajectory as his Aides who believe that threat and orders can attend and assuage the anger in the land. Mr. President…

Jul

30

2024

By Amos Oge Kalu

Progressively Shameless: Of ORO, Protesters Against Protest, Dissociaters And The Tinubu Presidency.

Column, Economy, Metro, News, Opinion, PoliticsBola Ahmed Tinubu, Metro, Next Level, Nigeria, Nwaokobia Jnr, Opinion, Politics, Security

When some citizens during the last General Elections decided to desecrate ancestral values, norm and tradition by deploying the ORO Traditional programmatic to stop Nigerians of other ethnicity from Voting in Lagos and or mobilizing to stop President Bola Ahmed Tinubu then a candidate from winning the Presidential election, little did they know that the gods would be angry. More than one year into the Tinubu Administration, it is apparent that the government lacks direction. As a Mystic and one vast in Metaphysics I can boldly say that the gods are angry. And rather than appease the gods, they have…

Jul

28

2024

By Amos Oge Kalu

A Protest Long Overdue. A Protest Made In Heaven. A Protest Orchestrated By Karma, Delivered To The Gen. Z. Africa Rising!

Metro, News, PoliticsChris Nwaokobia, Next Level, Nigeria, Nwaokobia Jnr, Opinion, Politics

I'm compelled to script these words to put the issues before us in proper perspective. To advise Leadership correctly. And to help create order in the emergent chaos fueled by Political Operators, Agents of State and Spokespersons of Government. I must inform them here and now that to desperately seek to stifle the political space, to strangle the freedom to hold contrary opinion and to Nicodemusly outlaw the right to protest and the freedom of assembly is the greatest threat to peaceful protestation and demonstration. That the planned protest is long overdue is truer than the reality of night and…

Jul

22

2024

By Amos Oge Kalu

Revisiting 134% Increase In Minimum Wage (70k): Ajaero, Osifo, Organized Labour Living And Leaving To Fight Another Day.

Column, Economy, News, Opinion, PoliticsBola Ahmed Tinubu, Chris Nwaokobia, Economy, Next Level, Nigeria, Nwaokobia Jnr, Politics

I am compelled to do this incisive effort which is apparently targeted at putting the records straight ditto the decision of Organized Labour to settle for a 134% increase in Minimum Wage thus taking the minimum wage from 30k to 70k rather than insisting on the 250k which was the position until the last meeting Organized Labour had with Mr. President and his Team. There is a preponderance of angry opinions out there seeking to lampoon and vilify the position of Organized Labour, some have said that Labour sold out, others have argued that 70k is not good enough, and…