“Where there is stiff and deliberate attempt to frustrate local manufacturing industries by bureaucratic administrative policies and unhealthy environmental condition, what you get is a capital flight to regions that have put their environment in order to attract these finances and investors”
“Politics is a game of numbers, these numbers are located in the grassroots, unless otherwise stated, the Mben Political Assembly (MPA) has acted more of an elitist association of intelligent men and women of the Ohafia clan and this is where the major challenge begins.”
By Suyi Ayodele (Edited) “For so many years, the North has been behaving like the King that feels he cannot be challenged; the one who determines the destinies of others while wearing the toga of supremacy. The region has been reaping from where it did not sow and has been enjoying the sweat and labour of the South, unchallenged.” This is a true-life story. There was once a Yoruba Traditional Ruler who talked down on his subjects. His tongue was so acerbic that even his Council of Chiefs avoided him.…
Ebube George Ebisike “The notion that funding the National Assembly or any political institution in any measures is more important than funding the Academic Staff Union must be perceived as a grave error and those responsible should be banned from holding any political office” Authur Conan Doyle, author of the Sherlock Holmes novels and other literary masterpieces commented later in his life that the academic system he experienced in the 1860s could only be excused “on the plea that any exercise, however stupid in itself, forms a sort of mental…
“With the size of a nation like Nigeria, taking into consideration its hardworking youth population, natural vegetation and mineral resources scattered all over the country, States naturally should be self-sustaining and competitive.
“If we allow politicians to get comfortable inciting division and violence when throwing tantrums, angling for chunks or crumbs, we will ruin the country. If we encourage politicians to forgo moderation in speech and action by rewarding political arsonists with recognition and prominence, we will destroy society.
Until the citizenry, the populace learn to completely disconnect from such lawless, greedy and insensitive individuals, the abusive Nigeria democratic system of patronage and lawlessness will continue to produce the likes of Okezie Ikpeazu of Abia state
“Don’t be deceived, if you are ever going to come out successful in life, you must get trained for it. Don’t be delusional about life. Stop going about praying and hoping for success.
“In recent times this cultural celebration has began to attract national and international attention. It is surely a cultural celebration everyone should experience both Igbos and non-Igbos.
Gbogi Emmanuel Foundation has been in the fore run of community development activities including donating books and other learning materials to school children in the community.
