Port Harcourt, the capital of Rivers state is about to be enmesh in a blood bath.The cause is a personality and egocentric brush of shoulders between two allies. Named after a port in honour of the then secretary of states for the colonies Sir Levis Harcourt by the then Governor-General of Nigeria Lord Fredrick Lugard, the city has received somany government attention and investment.It is perhaps the richest oil state in Nigeria and the second or third in internally revenue generation after Lagos and Kano. Thus, successive governors of the state have wielded too much influence in national discourse and debate. The ongoing hullabaloo in the state is the aftermath of a long conflict of impository and backstabbing tendency that engulfed the state under former governor Rotimi Amaechi. Amaechi,an Ikwere man like Nyesom Wike himself was almost stripped from power by the antics of Wike backed by the then First lady and wife of former president Jonathan Dame patient Jonathan,who c...
Ever since the evolution of mankind, the issue of population growth and landmass has been with him for centuries immemorial. Perhaps the bible was more precise when it urged it readers to go to the world and multiply.This is even demonstrated in the story of Abraham. Come to look at the massive herds of flock in possession of the Jewish people, Perhaps landmass was available for their herding if not;it would have been chaotic as obtain today in most Ashian, Middle Eastern countries and Africa at large.In Africa for a example, the increase in population, commercialization of land for different purposes has given rise to violence. A lot of communal wars have been fought,many people have been poisoned or witch hunted over land issue.The mother of all chaos over land matters is the age long conflict between farmers and herders which has accounted for about so many million people passing to the great beyond. The cause of this can be attributed to population explosion, land grabb...
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