SOC Okenwa

Aside the huge security challenges Nigeria is faced with a leadership conundrum decades old, something that makes it difficult for her to rise to the top. When it comes to politics our politicians are bad examples...

Nigeria, from few indications, is improving indeed economically and socially. But politically she is trapped still in a vicious cycle of godfatherism and mediocrity, especially at the federal level with a sitting President whose incompetence and cluelessness ring a bell!

We've got post-modern crimes and criminals and post-modern fraud and fraudsters; post-modern poverty and post-modern opulence. There are post-modern athletes and post-modern entertainers, post-modern thinkers and post-modern writers. There are out there post-modern builders and post-modern wreckers as well, post-modern homosexuals and post-modern heterosexuals...

The marriage institution is generally on the decline in many parts of the world. With the advent of the modern world and the modern man loving just only a woman is becoming more and more challenging in a new world of possibilities in which the internet has revolutionalised the way we relate with the opposite sex...

Now that a new National Security Adviser has been appointed by President Goodluck Jonathan, one hopes that things might improve for the better. Mallam Sambo Dasuki, a gentleman from appearance, should go ahead and engage the terrorists as he opts for "dialogue" but one belongs to the side of the hawks, that is, those in full support of a military solution...

When an African man takes a wife and a year passes by without the wife giving birth, tongues would start wagging and in Nigeria in general and in Igboland in particular, people, relatives and friends alike, would begin to ask questions as to the 'sexual compatibility' and drive of the couple...

Nigeria in the 21st century needs a strong leader, a benevolent dictator if you don't mind, who will knock sense into the senseless federal arrangement that is killing its inhabitants. We desperately need a morally-upright President who is incorruptible and intrepid to knock corruptible elements out of the system...

The embattled Syrian President Bashar al-Assad was not destined for leadership greatness, global statesmanship or great political character from birth!