Emmanuel Ojeifo

This article is not one of those usual gripes currently associated with discussions about the problems of Nigeria. The truth of the matter is that the current narrative discourse on the trouble with Nigeria, as Chinua Achebe made the characteristic title of his 1983 monograph, has become sickening, disgusting, nauseating, downright annoying and full of rubbish talk...

While everyone may be getting a Smartphone, not everyone is getting smarter. We have convinced ourselves that we have to listen to music all the time. Other people are content with downloading limitless number of applications that they probably won’t use. But since there is enough memory space, it’s okay to download all sorts of junk. We have simply reached a stage where we just keep bouncing endless chat and text messages back and forth with our digital applications...

Frankly, I used to think I was a strong-hearted person until Monday, June 4, when I began sieving through tons of photographs of the Dana plane crash of Sunday, June 3, 2012 on the Internet. I didn’t know when tears began to stream from my eyes...

For too long, our country has been training people who only know how to keep the routine going; people who can answer questions but don’t know how to ask questions; people who are experts in maintaining what has been handed on to them without adding any value; people who can fulfill goals but don’t know how to set them...

Today’s world has succeeded in producing great material comfort and an alarming spiritual decline at the same time. In spite of the degree of ostentation, instant gratification and luxury with which modern life is now associated, many people still live lives devoid of happiness and tranquility...

The media in today’s highly digital world can help sharpen the focus of the world on pressing issues that humanity must band together to address. Thanks today to the revolution in information and communication technology, we have uninhibited access to information...

Social capital is the key issue on the front line of the successful implementation of development agenda. Economists, management experts, politicians, key policy makers and opinion formers are ever more realizing that it is not the case that liberalization does not work, but that economic policies are not just enough to induce real and sustainable development...

Social capital is the key issue on the front line of the successful implementation of development agenda. Economists, management experts, politicians, key policy makers and opinion formers are ever more realizing that it is not the case that liberalization does not work, but that economic policies are not just enough to induce real and sustainable development...