Miscellaneous

The Death Penalty For Fakers And Forgers

A dangerous, corrosive wind of fakery, forgery, and identity misrepresentation is currently hovering over Nigeria, threatening to tear down the country's moral, institutional, and...

Bart Nnaji, Okey Ndibe & African Commentary Magazine

“Publishing is a cruel and shallow money trench, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free, and good men die like dogs.” -...

Akin Ogunbiyi: 64 years of quiet conviction

Saturday, September 12, was a special day for the family, friends, and well-wishers of Dr. Akinade Akanmu Ogunbiyi, as the charming leader marked the...

Letter to a Facebook girlfriend

My Dear, I have avoided treating leprosy with the prescription for malaria...

Further Discussions on the Future of Africa (2)

The Bradford Initiative on the future of Africa Collective agreed during the week-long Seminar on the future of Africa, that African concerns have gone beyond the potency of the written word, of poetry, banal literary musings, drama, songs and incantations...

International Seminar on the Future of Africa the New World Economic Order

The Seminar recommended that courses in International Law and Diplomacy should be held  at the Bradford Initiative Seminar Room, to  prepare University students for rigorous academic pursuit...

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...

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World Igbo Congress: A Jamboree in a Foreign Land

Many Nigerians have criticized the modus operandi of the WIC, and justifiably so, branding it a jamboree and calling for an end to it. I make haste to associate myself with them...

How to Handle Imagery in a Poem or Passage

Imagery works by means of analogy. It is a broad term used in describing all the images, figures and pictures of the mind present in a poem or passage...

Governor Amaechi’s N1.406B Ebola fund

On October 15 2014, Governor Chibuike Amaechi of Rivers...

Rivers Flooding: A Mixture of Ignorance and Politics

It was Carl Sagan who said that we have arranged things so that almost no one understands science and technology. This is a prescription for disaster. We might get away with it for a while, but sooner or later this combustible mixture of ignorance and power is going to blow up in our faces...

Open Letter To The Chinese President

We deplore western interests, Microsoft, Yahoo, and Google in doing business with China for acquiescing to its repressive modus operandi thereby becoming accomplices...

The Real And True Enemies Of Nigeria And The Nigerian People

Yes, our leaders have always been looters. They are utterly unsympathetic, selfish, greedy, diabolical and morally bankrupt...

Kalu, Orji and Image

We suggest Orji should learn from Dr. Orji Uzor Kalu, ex-Governor of the state and his political mentor, whom many ndi-Abia have seen as their choice...

The Mis-Education of the African People (1)

Due to conquest, subjugation and colonialism, black people throughout the world seem to suffer from racial and cultural identity problems emanating from educational systems that belittle their existence and self-worthiness.  On the other hand, the Arabs of Africa are excluded from consideration here since they do not suffer identity problems as much as black people...

Misplacement of facts in Abia

No matter how they have tried to justify ineptitude as sensitivity, Orji should stop trying hard to show a remarkable record of his government, which the people have marked as ghastly...

Fellow Nigerians

Let us cultivate a new approach towards government and

those in positions of authority and power.  A situation where we pelt our rulers with stones and other local missiles when they visit their constituencies does not portray us to the Western World as serious-minded people...