Leyii Kwanee: Rivers State’s Undercover Good Samaritan
Leyii Kwanee is not your ordinary politician. He has none of the flamboyance and excessive ostentatiousness of most Nigerian politicians that you may have come across. This one was cut…
Nnaemeka Oruh
Nnaemeka Oruh writes from Port Harcourt
Nobody Is Safe: Recognising the Threat of IDP Situations In Nigeria
The large number of Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) occasioned by the Boko Haram scourge in the North East of Nigeria represents to most Nigerians their only knowledge of IDPs and…
Xenophobia and the Imperativeness of Nipping the Growth of a Monster in the Bud
One of the things I have learnt, first as a student of literature, and then as a literary critic, is that incidents (especially those brought about by human action) do…
Chengi Don Come!
Finally, change has come! We have an incumbent president, who allowed for an election to hold ‘freely’ and proceeded to concede defeat to the opposition. It was a first in…
So That Nigeria May Survive the 2015 Presidential Elections
A few days from now, we shall be headed to the polls for the 2015 Presidential and national assembly elections. Then two weeks later, the governorship and state assembly elections…
Why Jonathan Will Win the 2015 Presidential Elections
Two things are certain about this article; it will not be published by Sahara Reporters (they have proven to be a completely anti-Jonathan media outlet who are now so far from…
Nkolika: Re-Telling the Story of Women and Their Place in Our Society
A few weeks ago, I was having a discussion with my brother-in-law and he straight out called the president of an African country a “woman wrapper”. Naturally, I asked him…
The 2015 Elections: There May Be Another Country
The tension is palpable. Naked fear walks through the land unchallenged, waylaying people at every turn. While a deadly group of religious bigots has laid siege on our land and…
Big Brother Africa: Tayo Faniran and the Lessons we Learnt
A lot of people who consider themselves ‘serious minded’ claim that they do not watch Big Brother Africa as it is a waste of time; promotes immorality; and does not…
Child Sexual Abuse: Recreating Tomorrow by Taking Definitive Action Today
Statistics detailing the extent of perpetration of child sexual abuse is hugely alarming. Projections show that this statistics will increase if something is not urgently done. Therefore, the urgency of…