Sabella Ogbobode Abidde

Please, do not ask me about religion. I get the evil look every time I tell people I am an agnostic who teeters on atheism. My world resolves around ethics and the rule of law. That’s it. I have no use for religion: religious convictions are not part of my existence -- the laws of man are good enough for me. I have lived in several cities: Seattle, Miami, Norman, Minneapolis-Saint Paul, Saint Cloud, the District of Columbia, Houston, and Mankato. I am not sure where I am going to live next. And I have never really had a profession, only jobs: been a cook, a dishwasher, a civil servant, house cleaner, university instructor and researcher and so on and so forth. Every so often I get questions concerning the role and place of the African woman. Well, I don’t know; at least not with any certainty. What seems to work best is when both partners work as a team: cooperate, coordinate and collaborate their marital efforts. And they should be mindful of the insidious effect of modernization on the African family.

Conversation with Governor Timipre Sylva of Bayelsa State

We were the first government in Nigeria to establish a functional due process unit. We are very clean; my hands are clean. I am not corrupt. My government is very transparent. Those who say I am a thief are not being 100% correct...

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Power Struggle: Goodluck Jonathan versus Timipre Sylva

What we have in Bayelsa State - the Cold War-like face-off between the Vice President and the State Governor - is not out of the ordinary. It is to be expected...

Where is The Bayelsa State Governor?

The people of Bayelsa State need and deserve a competent stay-home Governor, not a snoozing Governor who is “here today and there tomorrow.”

Marriage and Sex, Sex and Marriage

In spite of the gradual transformation of the Nigerian men, some still treat women of different color and background differently. A typical Nigerian living in the western world still does not bring his woman roses and cards...

Akin Oshuntokun and Nigeria’s History of Corruption

In Today’s Nigeria, the biggest fools are the street urchins and the armed robbers. Why they waste valuable time, talent and energy robbing people of one hundred dollars or less is what I don’t bloody understand...

Inferiority Complex: Nigerians and Their White Counterparts

It has to be humiliating what we are going through as a nation: an incompetent, rapacious and thieving leadership lording over a fatalistic, gullible and poverty-stricken populace...

What Do Africans Owe Africa? (Part 2)

In a previous essay, I proposed five steps Africans must take in order to retake and save their continent from squalor, poverty and hopelessness. The primary aim of these essay is to provoke debates about the future of the continent...

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