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...

Bat Out of Hell

The enemies America has created over the years do not think about immigrants when they plot their dark acts. We're all Americans to them, and likely to be targets, especially now that America has decided to fight back.

A Time To Resolve

It is natural for one to continually strive for a better state of being whether it is in one's job, relationship, or livelihood. In fact, it is born out of the divine instinct...

Motivating Yourself To Superlative Performance (2)

What separates the super achievers from the underachievers, the successes from the failures, the happy from the unhappy, the fulfilled from the unfulfilled, the peak performers from the nonpeak performers?

Motivating Yourself To Superlative Performance (1)

What will it cost you if you fail to achieve your goals? How painful will it be? What will be the consequences to your family, your career, and your life purpose?

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The Dishonourable Africans – Part II

In the real sense, the nobles of all empires and kingdoms were the lackeys, the lapdogs, the bootlickers and scallywags of the land. The nobles were those opportunists who readily sang the praises of the new murderous gangsters on the throne...

Run, Jonathan, run!

A group of Nigerians is losing sleep over the speculations that Goodluck Jonathan may run for president next year. This group is jittery that if Goodluck Jonathan eventually decides to run, his ‘luck’ will shine again, thereby dimming the North’s hope of ever getting close to the corridors of power in the next decade...

Nigeria: Beyond Being On Auto-Pilot

The belief in several quarters that Nigeria is currently...

The Libyan Case under International Law

There are rules of international law, which regulate warfare and which have been seriously violated by combatants during the Battle of Libya. It is the duty of a senior military officer to ensure that the Geneva Conventions on warfare are scrupulously respected...

Bayelsa: Between Sylva And Gold!

During the Ibori saga in London I had decided to refrain deliberately from commenting on the fortunate outcome of the Ibori kleptocracy because while happy with the development as it concerned his indictment I was angry with the obnoxious system back home that produced Ibori...

A Vessel Leaking From The Top

The way the federal government bungled the planned redenomination of the national currency by the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, is about the clearest proof that President Yar’Adua has been held hostage by some sinister forces outside government...

Okonjo-Iweala For President In 2007 (Part 2)

Okonjo's pedigree is so attractive to me because she is not a career politician like IBB and Atiku. She says what she means and she means what she says. That, in of itself, is an attribute we so much need in any new leader of our country...

Nigeria's 2013 Fiscal Austerity Budget (2)

The question everyone seems to be asking endlessly is: how could Brazil have risen so fast it is not only beating Britain as the world's sixth largest economy, but also about beating France as the world's fifth largest economy before the end of 2012?

Gerd Meuer: Encounter with the Oyinbo Pepper

The African Oyinbo who has transcended the length and breath of the Africa continent is in town to present his book written about his long time equally larger-than- life friend, the man he proudly calls Kongi- our own enigmatic Wole Soyinka...

The Unsung Nigerian Writer in a Hip-hop World

Unlike the 'full-time' hip-hop musicians, the Nigerian writer has to keep a 9-5 job to keep hunger pangs at bay. He has no access to government or private funds to attend literary conferences, arts residencies or fellowships...