Odilim Enwegbara

Our dear President, remember how millions of our powerless fellow citizens - our widows, orphans, mentally and physically challenged, and aged pensioners - all today have no one else to look up to wipe their tears than you. Our dear President, never be misled by your eagle-eyed praise-singers...

The truth is that every great people must first lose their direction several times before finally finding the right direction. That's how every fallen great nation can rise to greatness...

And to the extent that the Ogoni story is still today kept on the backburner by the three warring giant elephants is enough proof that interests of ethnic minorities in Nigeria are still peripheral...

What has so far surprised me is not that Nigerians did not know most of what has happened and is happening as released by Wikkileaks. Shocking is the level of shock being expressed in newspapers across the country...

It is wrong to come to believe that a Nigerian government populated by men of thumos is supposed to be representing the interests of the governed. Little wonder in countries like Nigeria with such low moral standards, public speech about morality has almost always been regarded as a nuisance...

If every great depression is always bad, how come it has always ushered in a better capitalism than the one it destroyed?