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...

Ode and Salute to Engineers and Engineering!

At first, the engineers made the wheel and since then, the wheel has turned the world. Engineers are among the thinking people in the world. Unlike ambitious politicians, who make the wrong noises, the Engineers move assuredly from the drawing board to the site...

Becoming A Responsible, Confident And Safe Driver

Driving is a serious responsibility, with physical and mental abilities impacting on the driving activities of a driver. It is more than moving a vehicle and knowing how to use the accelerator, brake pedals and steering wheel...

I Am The Son Of A Woman Wrapper

With my bum facing heaven while I lay on the floor, Papa gave me six strokes of the cane that made sitting unbearable on the wooden bench in my classroom at the Primary School in my village the nest day...

Kingsley Osadolor: The Guardian Rottweiler is 50

Professional antagonists who might want to spar self-righteously against Kingsley Osadolor will have to concede one sacred thing to him. He is one of the shiftless, strategically stubborn and unflagging icons of the Guardian Newspaper...

Protecting Your Reputation from Nigeria’s ‘Internet Warriors’

One of the numerous benefits of the internet is the democratisation of the publication of opinions. No matter what you want to put across to a wide audience, and the language in which such is couched, there will always be a website willing to publish you...

Death Comes in the Morning

I know the Holy Book says that joy comes in the morning. But I wish to inform you that death comes in the morning, in the afternoon and in the evening as well...

Help! Someone To Trust Please

Even now as I try to put it down in printed words, I am shaking my head with a mixture of amusement and amazement as I punch away on my PC’s keyboard. I am still trying to get my head round that encounter I had on my way home that evening....

Between Octopus Paul and Nigerian Juju men and Pastors

We can only tap into the positive aspects of psychic phenomena and occult practices by removing the stigmas that are attached to them and encouraging public scrutiny of claims...

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Building Peace In Nigeria: The Post-Jonathan Years

Nigeria’s Presidential Election have come and gone with all...

The Business of Drafting Jonathan

There’s a new business in Nigeria. It’s the business of drafting President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan to present himself for reelection. A group called Transformation Ambassadors of Nigeria (TAN) has emerged as the biggest, most enterprising player...

Selecting Emirs And Obas In The North And South Of Nigeria

It is a sad commentary on our country that we spend far too much money on avoidable litigations. I used to think the Urhobos were the most guilty of that virus. Not any more...

Ghana as Nigerians’ investments haven

It is disheartening to note that even long before the advent of the continued economic and financial meltdown, which started manifesting late 2008, and still troubles the global economy up till now, a sizeable number of Nigerian businesses apparently, had found the country’s business climate tough and unfriendly...

SARS, Amnesty International and Our Rights

Recently, the Amnesty International (AI), a combative NGO combating...

Usukaloyi: The Spirit of Revolution

Usukaloyi is A Spirit The Spirit of Revolution It fears no...

Ogboru’s Lincoln Argument and Otive Igbuzor

It’s strongly alleged that Great Ogboru wants to contest the 2015 guber election in Delta. For a man who has hitherto contested severally, got the people’s mandate all such times but in each case failed to get it right in the end, it is no wonder that tongues are now wagging...

American Defense Budget; Biggest Corporate Welfare, Massive Cuts Are Overdue!

Cutting the American Defense Budget or Military Spending is panacea for economic recovery, budget balancing and deficit reductions...

Obasanjo and the Nigerian Newspapers

It is quite disturbing that one of the country’s leaders who is supposed to realize the effect and weight of his public pronouncements descended so low as to declare that he does not read Nigerian newspapers...

Naira Marley, His Music And The Youth

Today, youths learn mostly from the entertainment industry and...