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By Ismail M. Kabir  Notable Ebira Candidates for  2011 General Elections  Few days to the kick-off of 2011 general elections, political rallies have become dominant of events across Ebiraland. With teeming candidates contesting various offices from different political parties, walls, stakes and every vacant space in the community are donned with political posters and billboards regardless of the township defacement and environmental effect of the waste as they subsequently wear off. In sharp contrast to 2007 when a common ambition of producing the state Governor on the platform of Action Congress (AC) reigned supreme in Ebiraland, the people of Kogi central have apparently succumbed to defeat sequel to the overwhelming loss their gubernatorial aspirants witnessed in the hands of their Eastern counterparts during the PDP Governorship primaries held at the Lokoja Township stadium in January, producing the embattled Alh. Isah Jibril Echcho from Dekinah in Kogi East as the party’

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By Ahmad Adoke The dictionary meaning of a leader is a person who leads, guides or direct others, especially a group. Leadership, therefore, is the role or position of leader. There is leadership problem when the quality necessary in a leader is lacking. Some of these qualities are patriotism, selflessness and honesty. Discussing leadership problem in Ebira land is not to say that leaders don’t exist, what is lacking is genuine leaders. One can safely say that up till the era of the 1 st republic, Ebira nation never lacked in good leadership. For instance, through good leadership, Ebira ancestors were never conquered from the various raids carried out by the Nupe jihadists in the 18 th century. In the same spirit, Ebira people had transformational leaders up till the first republic, whose leadership did not only put the good name of the land in the map of Nigeria but also left legacies of development. Unfortunately, the kinds of leade

Being a lecture note delivered at the 2010 end-of-year get-together of the PACESETTER CLUB of EBIRALAND by Omeiza Paul (a freelance writer and editor of Voice of Ebira newspaper) at 1 st Oriental Hotel, Ajaokuta Road, Kogi State. Date:30/12/2010.        I greet everyone seated here today in the name of Almighty God. I welcome you all to this important gathering of the eagles that are set to soar with Ebiraland as their feather. It is, indeed, an honour to be among you all today, and a great privilege to be found worthy of giving the piece of write-up.      Permit me to respectfully ask to be forgiven for not speaking today in line with the topic which this admirable body formally gave me to deliver. I was ‘officially’ directed to speak on the topic “ THE ROLES OF YOUTHS IN NATION BUILDING ”. But I had meditated upon it and concluded that it was relevant that we, as the youths with the fire of transformation burning in our bones, needed to be the