SOC Okenwa

Okenwa writes from Cote D'Ivoire.

When the Exiled 'Reggae Rebel' Hit Home

Like narcotics and other drugs, millions are hooked on music. That's why you have teenagers in the West whose behavorial abnormalities are traceable to heavy metal music with its violent lyrics...

The Pathetic Tolerance of Evil in Nigeria

Nigeria as a nation is a victim of 1914! When you reverse those numbers starting from letter 4 you get 419, a national embarrassment...

Who Wants 'The Guardian' Dead?

From all indications some entrenched forces unhappy over The Guardian's vocal independence and resourcefulness are manipulating the staff against the management...

The International Politics of Petrol

The United States of America is seen rightly or wrongly by not a few nations as an international bully, a military, political and economic bully...

Chirac: When A Corrupt Past Beckons

Just six months after relocating from the Elysée Presidential Palace in a democratic change of baton, former French President Jacques Chirac has found himself in a hot corrupt soup linked to his past as the Mayor of the city of Paris...

Much Ado About 'Miss'

Beauty pageantry no doubt empowers those that win eventually. It presents a great opportunity which, when exploited well enough, leads to advantages in life...

BBA and a $100,000 Richer Richard!

For me Richard, Ofunneka and Tatiana are heroes. The BBA, beside the economic drive of the proprietors, had sought to change the way we behave hypocritically as a people...

Encounter With The Paralytic Preacher!

It was a little after 3.30 am when the host pastor introduced a special guest preacher to mount the pulpit. The pastor in question was in wheel-chair, a disabled man of God...

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