Chinyere Ugomma Eze-Nliam

In life, there will be challenging times. You can work on your dreams for weeks, months and even years with no visible signs of progress and then, all of a sudden, things take off. People who patiently toil towards their dreams and goals, building strong character while overcoming adversity and challenge, grow the strong internal structure to handle success when it eventually comes...

They say if you want to make God laugh, tell Him your plans. His ways and thoughts are not ours and He certainly moves in mysterious ways, His wonders to perform. So today, learn to write your plans in pencil and give God the eraser. Most importantly, let go and let God. All things always work out together for good. Just believe...

On New Year's Day, when Nigerians were celebrating the advent of another year, the government of Goodluck Ebelemi Jonathan announced the removal of fuel subsidy.  This unpopular move which raised exponentially the cost of living for the common man was met with stiff resistance and led to widespread protests throughout the federation in what is now known as the Occupy Nigeria Movement...

Nigerian senate has just passed a bill outlawing same-sex marriage as well as banning public displays of affection between homosexual couples. Approval of the bill, which still must be voted on by the House of Representatives and signed by the President, stipulates a 14-year jail term...

As emancipated and forward thinking as some of us may claim to be, we fail to realise that more than half of the Nigerian populace falls within the periphery of the intellectually malnourished who tend to see things only in black and white...

Nigeria has survived a brutal civil war and more than 30 years of military rule to become a nascent democracy - with massive wealth to spend as the largest oil producer in Africa and even more massive levels of despicable poverty...

I have always viewed Nigeria as a mere geographical expression, a North and South joined together by an umbilical cord called United Kingdom, an umbilical cord which has since cut itself off and left us to our perils...

On Wednesday, the 24th of February 2010, around 2 a.m, when decent and hardworking Nigerians were snoring and sweating on their beds with mosquitoes playing hide and seek in their ears, somebody was smuggled into the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport under the cover of darkness...