By Sunday Okoh That the great Idoma gospel musician, Peter Owoicho Oturu is no more is no longer news, what many may not know is how this legend got to be known by almost all Idoma people irrespective of religious leaning. This…
I read with sadness, the statement signed by the immediate past Governor of Benue State and the Senator representing Benue North East in the national assembly, Senator Gabriel Suswam, wherein the ex Benue number one reacted to the media report that he…
By Ugwu Lawrence Enenche The research is based on the observation and participation in the marriage rites of the Idoma people of Nigeria by the researcher between years 1995 – 2020. Introduction The Idoma tribe is the second largest ethnic group in…
What the world needs to know about Tiv People and their Wives It has taken me more than a decade to make up my mind on writing this article, knowing the passion it is likely to generate, no thanks to the sensitive…
If you have dedicated, committed, and devoted Buharideens in your timeline, walk a mile in their shoes, see what they have to defend today alone, and go easy on them. Es not easy. A Federal Minister in the administration and Chairman of…
How did we get here? $76 billion in loans and still counting? We managed to escape a life of borrowing in 2006. We were down to $6 billion in total exposure, home and abroad. But no sooner had Okonjo-Iweala completed the deal…
The Benue State Governor, Samuel Ortom is seeking to return to government house in 2019 basically because he fears being jailed like Chief Joshua Dariye and Rev. Jolly Nyamie of Plateau and Taraba States respectively. On assumption of office in May 29th…
By Professor Farooq Kperogi Mrs. Amina Zakari just said to the BBC, “I’m not [Buhari’s] niece.” That’s flat-out mendacious. And it puts a huge question mark on her honesty, probity, and trustworthiness. A person who can lie this casually about something as…
By Akioyamen Josephine Festus Keyamo (SAN) by any account is a brilliant man. He is loud, rancorous, boisterous if not cantankerous in the advancement of his causes. He is a past master at playing the press. After all, it made him who he…
By Farooq Kperogi, Ph.D. Twitter:@farooqkperogi The progressively widening and deepening bloodbath in Zamfara State is made even worse by at least three narrative conspiracies that mask the real extent of the heartrending humanitarian disaster the people there are contending with. The first…
