A COMMUNIQUÉ ISSUED AT THE INAUGURAL PUBLIC LECTURE OF URHOBO RENAISSANCE SOCIETY HELD AT PTI CONFERENCE CENTRE, EFFURUN, OCTOBER 1, 2019. In response to the constant calls for the development of Urhobo as an ethnic nationality and a people, patriotic Urhobo thinkers and leaders, led by Professor Hope Oghenerukevbe Eghagha, birthed the Urhobo Renaissance Society […]
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That the Niger Delta region is exploited, and remains undeveloped is partly our fault. Yes, our fault. Because, for too long, we have not projected ourselves the way and manner other people from other climes have projected themselves. We continue to cry of marginalization, acute exploitation, deprivation, yet, we have failed or refused to do […]
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TWO days from now, the fantastically corrupt Nigeria will clock fifty-six, with nothing corporeal to make merry about. Fifty-six years of arrested development! Just as the iconic poet, Elder J.P. Clark puts it creatively thus, since when the neocolonialists took over the helms of affairs in 1960, “nothing works” in this fantastically wealthy Nigeria, and […]
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Nigeria remains a nation that is sorely betrayed by her people. For too long now, we have ascribed the blame of “the trouble with Nigeria” to bad leadership while we continue to exculpate the people, all of us, as victims of an ineluctable and cruel fate. An evaluation of the Nigerian condition easily yields conclusions […]
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