How Long Will Yahaya Bello Continue With This Lawless Act?

 By Richards Ibe

The ex-Governor of Kogi State, Yahaya Bello, who handed over to the current governor of the state, Usman Ododo in January this year after his two terms of four-years-tenure, has consistently been in the news in the past eight months.

*Bello and others dancing on the road...

It has been from one drama to the other bordering on his stewardship and how he handled the affairs of the state under his tenure.

Bello, who was alleged to have defrauded the state to the tune of N84 billion during his tenure, have done everything in and out of the books to avoid his trial spearheaded by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC).

NBA Had Also Withdrawn Maurice Iwu's Invitation

By Usman Okai Austin

In 2008, former Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Professor Maurice Iwu's invitation as a Guest (not even a Speaker) to the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA)’s  Annual General Conference (AGC) of that year was withdrawn because of a protest from a cross section of Lawyers, due to his unremorseful and very poor handling of the 2007 general elections as the then INEC Chairman?

Do you know that no sectional, partisan, religious or ethnic group threatened boycott of the AGC as a result of the de-invitation of Prof. Iwu?

Elrufai is not the founder of this country neither is Nigeria named after his father. NBA only responded to public outcry and condemnation.

Kogi State Is Bleeding: A Call For Collective Rescue Mission

By Usman Okai Austin

Today, empirical and observatory facts have clearly shown that Kogi State is in a state of coma and economic doldrums that require an urgent attention. On all fronts, Kogi State spells failure. The indices for any vestige of development remain abysmal.

*Gov Yahaya Bello of Kogi State 

Poverty rages, unemployment increases in astronomical dimension, Infrastructural facilities are in decay, education sector is struggling to survive, salaries are unpaid, hunger, despair and destruction now haunt the state. The people are indeed living in very trying times: dissatisfied with the present and face the future with much trepidation. If Kogi State today were a living entity, it would be perceived as a blind entity groping aimlessly without direction while pretending to be on a purposeful mission of institutionalising the change agenda.