I have met people in this world. Some are handsome and beautiful and the others, financially rich and poor, schooled and educated and what have you. Many of these people that I have met needed someone to trust, rely on, and love them. But only a minute number had the qualities they wanted from others. So, when they wanted someone to trust, they knew who to go to. To them, this person was a fool, because he was not given to the ramshackle nature of the modern world, where sincerity is attributed as foolishness, but waywardness has all that can…
Author: Odimegwu Onwumere
Representation of youths in Nigerian democracy without a doubt still remains a tall dream and this affects their behaviour towards political settings. ODIMEGWU ONWUMERE unearths that youths are sidelined in Nigerian democratic system by factors like unemployment, poverty, illiteracy, unfavourable legal architectures, low economic conditions, different discriminatory practices, gender bias, ethnic sentiments, corruption, godfatherism and sundry issues Youth-friendly policies of the AU and homily by the UN that countries should take youths into their policies seem not applicable to youths in Nigeria. Not garnering the political will they needed, youths in the country believe that a youthful president will benefit the country and enhance the electoral…
Over-regulations were once seen as the bane of micro-insurance in Nigeria which hardly allowed foreign investment. But this seems to be no more as regulators have established reengineered micro-insurance in the country with timeless benefits for low income earners, to enable them handle their risks. ODIMEGWU ONWUMERE however traces experts’ suggestions stating that the bar for financial inclusion should be raised, mobile money enhanced and regulators should intensify micro-insurance incursion, escalate access point in the country, for effective penetration “Micro-insurance is not just a scaled down version of regular insurance… the product and processes need to be completely reengineered to…
Expectations are heightening among inhabitants and political watchers of Bayelsa state politics as the state gubernatorial election slated for November 16 draws nearer. The query is centred on whether the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) should continue to rule the state or there should be a change of party. In another insight, many are not inclined to supporting any political party to produce the next governor of Bayelsa state, but an individual whom they believe will embody them very well. If the postulations of people should be anything to go by, then Chief David Lyon, the flagbearer of the All Progressives…
The Deputy Governor of Delta State, Barrister Kingsley Otuaro is a man that can be trusted, especially in this era, where and when some governors and their deputies, political Godsons and Godfathers, political allies and friends and sundry are in loggerhead. Observing the steadiness in Otuaro, the Delta State Governor, Dr. Ifeanyi Okowa on April 16 2019, described Otuaro as a competent man, during the occasion marking Otuaro at 51. Okowa, who was on leave during the period under review, also commended Otuaro who was acting governor, for the salient role he played in the ‘Smart Agenda’, which was geared…
It is on public notice that there are people and groups frightening the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the February 23 2019 presidential election, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar. Their tactics is by asking him to sheathe the legal battle he is instituting to reclaim the supposedly mandate given to him by the Nigerian electorate that was brazenly robbed by the All Progressive Congress (APC) candidate, Maj. Gen. Muhammadu Buhari. It would be disservice to hundreds of millions of Nigerians if Atiku gets down not to reclaim this mandate that the APC is brandishing whereas there are posers…
