“It takes considerable political courage for a governor to divert substantial resources towards settling liabilities accumulated by previous administrations, especially when such resources could otherwise be deployed to accelerate ongoing projects and programmes. Yet, Governor Otti has demonstrated that development is not limited to roads, hospitals, schools and other physical infrastructure”
“The more important question is therefore not whether roads should ordinarily be celebrated, but whether Abia is moving from reconstruction to transformation. That is where the conversation should go: quality education, modern healthcare, industrialisation, technology, productivity, investment, stronger institutions and globally competitive cities”
“In this piece, our emphasis in the foregoing definition of who a lecturer is, lies with the phrase, “hired to teach”. What that means is that anybody teaching in the university or tertiary institution, such as the Abia State University (ABSU), Uturu, was hired or employed by the university”
“We are rebuilding a region that will serve as home to every South East indigene and every Nigerian who is fed up with the dirt and deceit in Lagos and Abuja and willing to return to a home of peace and prosperity, this is the template the Otti’s government has laid down, It is a Labour Party template and I can assure everyone of you that no responsible Abia indigene will backtrack from that trajectory.”
“Public criticism of government is treated as serious misconduct and can attract sanctions ranging from interdiction and suspension to compulsory retirement or dismissal.If you doubt this, ask any friend or relative in a public institution – State or Federal – to publicly malign their government and see the outcome”
“History has repeatedly demonstrated that nations do not fail because they lack resources, but because they lack accountable leadership and strong institutions. Nigeria has earned billions from its abundant natural resources over the decades, yet much of the expected development has remained unrealised”
“Cultism is no longer something we should dismiss as a problem confined to university campuses. It has found its way into our communities and is pulling in younger people. That should worry every parent, every teacher, every religious leader, and everyone raising children” According to police, she gave food to her 16-year-old neighbor, Chinonso Ejike, because he was hungry and his mother was not at home. It was an ordinary act of kindness. The kind of thing many Nigerians wouldn’t think twice about doing for a child living next door.…
“Imagine the disturbing height of PDP’s audacity, impunity and excesses in Abia for two decades plus! Which was the reason political analysts described Abia as a captured state, Today, all the political actors that constituted PDP’s hatchet team and unleashed terror that scuttled the liberation of Abia and its good people between 2015 and 2023 are terribly haunted by their own evil deeds”
“You don’t grow an economy by sharing assets. You grow it by building capacity. That is why the focus is on training, tools, and platforms, not on temporary palliatives. It is governance with strategy, not sentiment.Compare this to the past: keke and token appointments. Those programs fed stomachs for weeks and months. ASLA, TechRise, and Soccer Fest are feeding futures for a lifetime”
“You can buy politicians. You can buy praise singers. You can buy defections. You can build a political machine. But you cannot assume that you have purchased the human being inside every uniform. Does Tinubu seriously believe that every Nigerian police officer will willingly put his life on the line to preserve one politician’s presidency?”
