SOC Okenwa

This writer is both for and against the WikiLeaks adventure. I am in support because I am for the truth, the full disclosure against the power game of rogue states. But I am against because millions of American military lives are placed in immediate danger by these dangerous exposures...

Majority of Nigerians, at home and abroad, are agreed that our motherland is terribly 'sick'! Yes, she is suffering from what one could call 'statehood tumor', an ailing condition that is similar to the prostrate cancer that has killed many rich men and women. And to combat the malady and save her from imminent death she has been taken to the emergency ward of a teaching hospital...

Whether the man that attacked Obasanjo was insane or sane is not the issue. The real issue here is why a 'mad' man should consider it expedient throwing blows at an old man of Obasanjo's standing?

In this last battle of his life, Ciroma cuts the image of an old republican 'rebel' with little choices and without much energy or strength - doing the bidding of his masters pushing him towards political suicide...

The truth is that when someone stole an election and benefited from its fruits without any sanctions extended to him after he was caught, others are encouraged and emboldened to do even worse in order to have the 'key' to the state treasury...

Few weeks ago, some prominent Igbo leaders were locked out of the Concorde Hotel in Owerri where they were supposed to meet. According to the news report they had paid in advance for the hotel facility only to be told by gun-totting law enforcement agents that they had "orders from above" to stop the meeting...

The Chilean President and his wife scored huge political points during the ordeal of the miners as they demonstrated quality and responsive leadership expected of great leaders...

President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan's demeanour is somewhat less presidential than should be expected. He has achieved greatness by providential streak of goodluck which is rare in the African political history, a dark history...