Tourism is a big industry that provides pleasure, entertainment, investment opportunities, employment and revenue to the people, including visions from all over the world. Anambra state is naturally endowed with rich cultural, historical, traditional, environmental and archeological features, which rank higher than most other tourist centres in Nigeria. The wonderful hospitality of the good people of the State helps to make Anambra a destination of choice for both local and foreign tourists as well as investors in the tourism industry. The tourism policy of Anambra State is modelled after the tourism policy of the Federal Government of Nigeria. The main…
Author: Clem Aguiyi
I had written this opinion before the Federal High Court judgement which nullified the participation of former Senator Andy Uba in the November 6th Anambra Gubernatorial Election as the APC candidate. The bombshell of judgment described the APC primary election as crude and primitive. Justice Inyang Ekwo in his ruling rightly declared that APC had no candidate in the said election, thereby denying Senator Uba any locus standi to further challenge Soludo’s victory. Before now, I had joined those that appealed to Uba to save himself a shameful political demise by respecting the will of the people. Rather than accept…
Once again we have come to the season of Christmas, one of the most beautiful seasons of the year- an annual festival commemorating the virgin birth of Jesus Christ, observed primarily on December 25, as a religious and cultural festival celebrated by billions of people around the world. Growing up, Christmas was always the best time of the year, exciting and dazzling. It has always been a tradition in my family to decorate our home with Christmas tree, cards, flowers and lights. We also slaughter either live chicken, turkey or goat depending on what was within the reach of my…
In Anambra, governorship elections despite pre-election tensions and prediction of dooms always end on a peaceful note. Within the past 16 years, we have zero record of litigating the outcome of governorship elections and there are reasons for this; no individual’s ambition no matter how inordinate is bigger than the aspiration of the State, no citizen of the State is powerful enough to wrestle the entire state to the ground and no one want to be seen as a distraction to the progress of the State. In Anambra we see ourselves as brothers, we quarrel like brothers and settle our…
Friends, do you hear that sound from the land of the rising sun? It’s the victory sound of the silent majority that has restored our dignity and stopped some dangerous elements from taking over the State. Permit me to pay my respect to President Buhari for being remarkably neutral in the just concluded Anambra gubernatorial election. He allowed the wish of the people to manifest. Being himself a beneficiary of free and fair election it is good that he is bequeathing Nigeria a legacy of free, fair and credible elections. This he has demonstrated with an improved INEC. I salute…
Some issues that agitated my mind in the past few weeks include whether God has left the Anglican Church and whether the body of Christ now communes with the devil? For Christ sake! Why would a man of God be pitching to elect a bad candidate as governor because they belong to the same religious denomination rather than root for a good man that will work for the people? Why should some anointed men of God turn the House of God into a political theater, thus, causing the Lord to take flight? For ‘it is written…
Barring any last-minute unforeseen circumstances, the Anambra State Governorship Election will be held on the 6thof November 2021. INEC, the electoral umpire had indicated her preparedness to conduct the election as scheduled. It has released the final list of candidates and declared there will be no going back on the date, apparently in response to the violence on the streets in the state instigated by some people campaigning for ‘No Election’. I agree with INEC that the election must go on except if Nigeria is self-admitting that she has become a completely failed state. The government has no business…
We were taught we are one country, that we are one people and that we are one nation under one God. We were taught about unity and strength and why we must under all circumstances stay united as one people. We were taught that a bundle of stick cannot be easily broken but that a single stick can be broken effortlessly. We grew up knowing there is joy in being together. We boasted of our numbers and proudly declared our country, ‘the giant of Africa’. For some years now our unity is tested as we are under attack by some…
Many reasonable voices had before now spoken on the precarious State of the Nation. Wide-ranging solutions had also been proffered, the least being for the President to address the nation. There are times when silence is not golden. This is such a time. Only God knows why the president is mute at a time we needed to be reassured that help is on the way, and that we will pull through this difficult period as one people. While Nigeria burns and we wait for Nero, let me address fellow South Easterners on the following words as first written by Chief…
Some writers are like prophets, not because they want to be called prophets but because in their writings they could predict the future. In 2011, Mr. Duff an American journalist writing on Nigeria wrote vividly about the conspiracy by some internal and external forces to tear down the pride of Africa with hope of plundering her natural resources. Duff rightly predicted the rise in ethnic consciousness as against nationalism. He spoke of the rise of Islamic militancy sweeping through the Sahel. He concluded that Nigeria will be engulfed in ethnic war caused by ethnic squabbles. He said there is need…
This is the most difficult opinion article I have written in my entire career as a writer. Difficult because I enjoy painting glowing pictures of my town, most people do. Now jarred by recent ugly events unfolding before my eyes, framing this opinion becomes a difficult task. And no matter how it is framed, the truth is that peace has left Enugwu- Agidi-the beautiful, and the town is now enveloped by uncertainty and violence orchestrated by land bandits whose speciality is auctioning ancestral lands to strange people without the mandate of the community. Enugwu Agidi-the beautiful is a small hilly…