Analysis & Opinion: 2020, It Is Well

  By Sunny Awhefeada One of my childhood preoccupations was to watch my maternal grandmother, Mama Omorona Urhobojavba, at sundown every 31st of December carry out what was her end of year rite. It was in the December of 1983 that I first noticed it. From that moment, I would, each year, stay vigilant at that time of the evening when she would walk to the corner of our house facing the direction of the sun in its pale westward journey. With muttering lips and solemn look, delicate and deliberate…

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IMG TASKS NEW IDU EXCO ON PEACE IN ISOKO

  The newly elected Executives of Isoko Development Union (IDU), have been tasked to secure the peace in warring Isoko communities. Isoko Monitoring Group (IMG), in a congratulatory message to the Union, signed by its spokesperson, Dr. Kingsley Oroh stated that securing peace should be the first task of the new executive. The group applauded the peaceful election and transition urging the new exco to push for meaningful and sustainable reforms that would engender development in Isoko nation. The IMG also stressed the need for the apex sociocultural body to…

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