Nnaemeka Oruh

There was nothing funny about a bloodied up grown man weeping hysterically in public, and complaining to whoever cared to listen that they robbed him of the 10,000 naira he wanted to use to fly to London to see the royal baby...

Two issues grabbed the headlines this weekend. Here, I will try to examine these issues as reflections of the state of our country Nigeria...

I do not completely agree that the cause of the  Nigerian predicament is corruption. Corruption, I agree is a problem in this country, but it is just a symptom of a larger problem...

It was the publication of There Was A Country that served as my sole premonition of the imminent death of my father Chinua Achebe. When he published it, my first reaction was "oh my God!" That was because for years, he had only commented in snippets on the Nigeria-Biafra war...

Traditionally, people tend to grapple with the concept of gender inequality as it concerns the man's attempt at lording it over women...

One of the most important television shows in the world is kicking off on DSTV this February. It is an Empower Africa Initiative show...

Sometime ago, a friend of mine was working as a security head of an institution whose security apparatus also secures the immediate community where the institution is domiciled. For whatever reasons, my friend decided that the bread suppliers who supply bread to the local shops had to be giving him some free loaves of bread...

What I am concerned with is the fact that the reduction of the world to a global family has quite naturally led to a proliferation in the use of short forms. I mean short grammatical forms and of course acronyms...