Introspective

The Myth of New Year Resolutions: Why 2025 Won’t Magically Save You

As we inch closer to the dawn of 2025, the air is thick with the buzz of "New Year, New Me" proclamations. Across the...

The Ageless Myth: Is Age Really Just a State of Mind?

The concept of aging has long been considered a biological certainty, as though an unavoidable countdown is inscribed within our very DNA. Yet, mounting...

Day Dele Momodu Made Me Live Above My Means

These are dangerous days of gross shamelessness in totalitarian Nigeria. Pathetic flaunting of clannish power is all the rage, and a good number of supposedly...

Every Woman (4)

"I get all carried away, let me tell you a little about myself. I'm pretty sure you have met my friends, and they have all described me as bubbly. Indeed, I am bubbly, but most times, I only appear to be bubbly. Austin proposed to me after we found out I was pregnant with our daughter, Ekanem. He claims that he would have proposed even if I wasn't pregnant; I know I only accepted his proposal because I was pregnant..."

When A Man Gazes At A Woman

The genius of a man’s eyes works optimally upon alighting a woman’s 

body. With his eyes, a man can conveniently strip a well-clad woman to 

the bare...

The Blessings of Adversity

Our world is a world of visible ambivalence, paradoxes and contradictions. Things don't always go smooth and rosy like we'd always expect them to... Yet, wise men of old knew that a world without opposites would be flavourless...

African Men And The Culture Of Many Women

I know American men who, despite being married, admire other women and some of them do date other women outside marriage. So that is not an African thing. That is a man thing...

Do You Have Regrets…or Disappointments?

What are your regrets or disappointments? What would you do differently? Are you happy with life and happy with yourself? Or perhaps you need more time and more opportunities to do this and that and everything that slipped through your fingers...

Once Upon So Many Decades

Let me tell you of a time when pupils knew all the names of the administrators, ministers, commissioners, president and prime-ministers and other government officials. We could tell the number of Local Government Areas in the whole country. We crammed prominent dates and names. We knew our Civics. We could recite verses from Chaucer...

When A Woman Loves A Man

One of the greatest motivations a guy can experience is the assurance of a woman's love. It can inspire poems of the avante garde genre. She may hide it as long as she can but her voice, her eyes and actions would betray her no sooner...

Nwanyi Ukwuoma and the Complexities of Igbo Names

She was the type of girl who, dressed up, walked down the street with carefree, hesitant, almost-lazy shuffle on a cool evening as the men sat in front of street-corner shops drinking local gins. Watching her, you knew right away that while she appeared to be headed in a direction, she really had no destination...

Don't miss

Jonathan and his Critics

Do many Nigerians read? Only a small fraction do, otherwise, given the intellectual and didactic editorials in The Guardian newspaper and the writings of articulate Nigerians, the poor standard of our political discourse would have improved inexorably...

Institutional Building for National Development

For us to get started in our quest for solid national development, we need to build sustainable and strong institutions. We need strong institutions for service delivery, government efficiency, strong policy and programme implementation...

The More You Look the less you see: Chatham House 2015

I read with diligence and unmistakable pride, Buhari’s Chatham...

Why this State of Emergency May Fail

The world of security and strategic thinking is not for the fickle minded; neither is it for the “go along” person. In this world, knee jerk reactions are often not the right ones. While emotions should give way to careful analysis, so should logic and strength of conviction be carefully weighed and ingratiated in the decision making process...

Prospects And Challenges Of Wiring Nigeria For Development (2)

Of what use is Internet access in a village without water? What use is half a gigabyte of RAM when the people need food? How will digital technology be available to all when the national provider of energy source is an epileptic government agency?

The Unending Crucifixion of Indigbo

"The tragic chapter of violence is just ended. We...

A Birthday Quite Like No Other!

December 25th is upon us once again. This annual hugely popular international event commemorating the unique birth of our Lord and Saviour over two thousand years ago calls for joy indeed...

Roses from the Concrete

It is our duty to at all times express our support to those of our children who manage to occasion grand exploits despite the inhibitions inherent in our society...

Anticipatory Probe Report on NDDC: Matters Arising

The Citizens Quest for Truth Initiative, an accountability advocacy...

Emerging Leaders And Citizens As Catalysts

The Obasanjo government may have laid the foundation for a new Nigeria, rescuing it from the claws of military oligarchs in 1999, but now is the time to move on...