Author: Sunny Dada

I have seen several emotional reactions from very angry Ijaws over the perennial insults and recent tantrums thrown at the Ijaw ethnic nationality by the FCT Minister, Nyesom Wike. Understandably they have a right to be angry especially when you consider the fact that the Ijaws midwived his political ascendency and also penned and hatched the power sharing agenda for Rivers State in 1999. Notwithstanding the foregoing, there is need to be temperate in our reactions and not join the fray by condescending to his gutter politics. The best response by the Ijaws to Minister Wike should be rather given…

The Rivers State Sports Institute Isaka was established in 1988 by the Col. Anthony Ukpo administration. The institute which operates a curriculum with a blend of academic and sporting programmes, was established primarily to train and produce sports men and women of various classifications. The Institute is made up of a sea school which operates as a secondary school with regular academic curriculum for students of both arts and science while the institute itself is focused on marine and sporting programmes for seamen, athletes, and career sailors. However, the institute has since been in a state of non-use due to…