Miscellaneous

A Hospital For Chima Ubani

In this sad season in Nigeria I got filled with so much joy when the news reached my end that Abia State Governor, Dr...

The Insult That Led to the Creation of Osun State

Osun State was created thirty-five years ago, but what if I told you the state was born, indirectly, from an insult. Yes, really. In 1945, Chief...

Nigerian Style Of Football

We played the game. It entailed any number of men or women running about kicking any roundish object. We had no special name for...

My Relationship With ACN

In my media practice of over a decade, I have said to myself time without number that things that matter least will never distract me from the things that matter most...

The Nigerian media industry, Internet revolution and competition for advert

Very soon we will start to see Nigerian papers charging for some aspect of their online news, despite the not so successful experimentation of the Punch Newspaper. But as we are witnessing now, competition for online advert will intensify concurrently with that of the print paper...

Wishing You Enjoyable Holidays

Even if you are not a Christian, this is a season that is celebrated with utmost vigour. The eating and greetings are the contexts that function to make us very happy and cheerful...

Agriculture and rural development in Nigeria: a retrospect of the last two decades (1991-2011)

With barely less than four years to the targets year of the Millennium Development Goals to eradicate extreme poverty and hunger, achieve universal primary education, promote gender equality and empower women, reduce child mortality...

Show Love Caring To People

It is necessary that we care for people and show them love, not money. We can’t care for our lives enough in this present world of terror and terrorism. Let our positive lifestyles influence the world...

Homosexuals or Less than Homo sapiens!

The other day a Nigerian and so-called lesbian, apparently schooled in the now demonized culture of the West and or America was weeping pleading their case before the Nigerian parliament where supposed human beings have lodged a pro-gay bill...

Eaves of Burj Khalifa

Standing naked before the flying wings of that night, with only a wish to be led to the edge of all creation, a slight movement in the ball of darkness around the corner stole my attention. I crash-landed! A rat? A thief? Or could it be an apparition?

Overtime

We have mastered the environment. The environment is Shylockian. The environment is clear and perfect, but we are not benefiting from it.  The environment is helpful, but those we met on board are not helpful...

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Jacob Zuma: A 21st Century African Leader?

In Jacob Zuma, the Republic of South Africa has chosen a new President who is not only liked by his people, but someone seen by his countrymen as one of them...

Deji Of Akure

Modern ifa like the rest of us is not stupid. It instinctively knows who is qualified to be King at a time the town's people no longer financially support their Oba. If you don't have enough money to support yourself as Kabiyesi, don't even go there...

Of New York State and Oyo State

There are some interesting developments common between New York...

A Political Earthquake in the Making: Are Nigerian Governors Plotting a Mass Exodus to APC?

The Nigerian political landscape is trembling once again, and...

Michael Aondoakaa, Former AGF, Should Be Investigated and Tried

Going forward, it is important to review the actions, pronouncements and neglects to act during the subsistence and tenure of Michael Aondoakaa's Attorney Generalship. He will be remembered as intransigent and utterly recalcitrant...

Nigeria Decides: Goodluck Jonathan, Buhari or Ribadu?

Never before in the history of the country has a general election generated such feverish excitement among Nigerians – at home and in the diaspora - like the 2011 April Polls...

CNN God’s Warriors: The Intersection of Religion and Politics

God's Warriors, the documentary premiered by CNN last month, when viewed in the Nigerian context, provides some deep lessons on the relationship that exists among the faiths and the role religion has continued to play in our socio-political life...

Royal Complicity: How Nigeria’s Traditional Rulers Enable Political Misrule

In Nigeria’s complex political history, traditional rulers have steadily...

Uwazuruike and Ndiigbo that Agitate

I have always harboured the feeling that if ever there will be a man walking on his head, and walking backwards instead of forwards, such a person will come from Nigeria. It is only in Nigeria that the tail wags the dog and the cart pulls the horse...

First In Class of Education and Leadership

Unhappy is the country whose leader is not properly...