Anioma Is Midwest!

 By Nkem Onyekpe

There is an ongoing frenzy about state creation. It would seem that the 10th National Assembly is in a hurry to break the jinx on the inability of civilian-led government to create state, an exercise that the military had performed with fiat. That reality and the fact of prolonged military rule had stunted constitutionalism in the country. Nevertheless, in the present hive of activities on state creation, Anioma state has featured among states that may merit the gavel.

*The Asabga of Asaba, Prof Epiphany Azinge and Sen. Ned Nwoko

Therefore, I begin with the affirmation that Anioma land is west Niger Igboland. Therefore, Anioma people are Igbo or predominantly Igbo. In the last few years, the long-standing agitation for the creation of Anioma state has been resuscitated with increasing vigour after a period of suspended animation. The credit for the resuscitation goes largely to an Anioma son and politician, Senator Ned Nwoko.

Nigeria: Tackling The Menace Of ‘The Great Flood’

 By Harrison Eromosele

The annual ritual flooding which every  so often besieged and submerged communities, suburbs, towns, and certain metropolises across several states and countrywide has degenerated from being a recurring decimal problem to a recurring death crisis. The havoc wreaked by this year’s deadly flooding is overwhelmingly unprecedented.

Indeed, it has earned for itself, a catastrophic history. This is the great flood of 2022. There are frightening grapevine hypotheses, suggesting that the devastating scale of this year’s (2022) flood condition in relation to 2012 would possibly imply a repeat, once every decade.