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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...

Ibusa Union, London Branch: Problems and Prospect 2

I believe that the influence and discipline in the advanced democracy we live in, coupled with education, enlightenment and interactions with far sighted positive thinkers, should be enough to help bleach away the attitude problems of our people...

Diplomatic Faux Pas

Some diplomatic observers informed me that when the Nigerian Foreign Minister, Chief Ojo Maduekwe, visited Washington, sometime ago, he was not received by the US Secretary of State, but by a lesser official. According to the doctrine of reciprocity, the Nigerian Foreign Minister “was not disposed to receive” the US Secretary of State at the airport in Abuja...

The Eighteen Most Intelligent Questions Ever Asked

As educated, street-smart and well-travelled as Nigerians are, they seem to have a high tolerance for stupidity, cowardice and mediocrity. Otherwise, how could men like Obasanjo, Abacha, Babangida and Shagari have presided over Nigeria?

Women, Public Toilets Gender Equality Agenda

This week, I had a taste our gender neglect bitter medicine, and this pushed my hand to publicly gripe about this gender disparity issue against women in the provision of public toilets...

Ibusa Union, London Branch: Problems and Prospect

Human nature and human relationships are buoyed with conflicts. We can never do without them otherwise human existence would be boring. But when some conflicts become so entrenched and seem to be dragging on for too long thereby acting as a cog in the wheel of progress...

Jordan: The £30million Boobs

Katie Price, iconically known as Jordan, always presents me with a moral dilemma. Is it really chic to flash your chesty asset in people's faces and live and be proud of the proceeds of such shameless perversion?

Man’s Survival: Way out of Food and Energy Crisis

It pops up in the media regularly. A hydra headed monster which has posed serious threat to man’s survival. Generally referred to as food and energy crisis, one wonders whether there is no more land to grow food...

Check Out : Confronting Migration Issues

Lekan Fatodu affirmed on the publisher's page that Check Out magazine will liberate travellers from the old ways and chart a new path that will offer 'more than what you think you know'…

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Nigerians In Diaspora: A Catalyst For Poverty Reduction, Political And Economic Development Of Nigeria

The Nigerian Government under president Goodluck Jonathan's government appreciates the role Nigerians in Diaspora are playing in the development of the country through their expertise and remittance of money...

Odimegwu Onwumere ‘arrested’?

The Abia State Governor T.A. Orji’s boys have been spreading falsehood with their pseudonyms and through blogs they create and on social networks that I was arrested in Delta State a fortnight ago..

Our Political Leaders Faintly Understand This Economy!

With all due respect to Mr. President, the political career of Umaru Yar'Adua is not the most pressing issue on the national agenda. What is most critical, rather, is that this country be governed by men and women with the ability to protect it and to keep its people safe...

When A Nation Can Fund Everything Except Its Future

There is a peculiar tragedy that unfolds in Nigeria...

Fayemi Powers Ahead with Amandla

In my domain of ungovernable irreverence, a politician is...

Obama’s Success in the US and Lessons for Ndigbo in Nigeria

When we see an old woman stop her dance to point again and again in the same direction, we can be sure that somewhere there something happened long ago which touched the roots of her life. Something is happening in America that should touch the roots of Ndigbo in Nigeria...

Proud to Come from Anambra State

People living in Anambra State may not always appreciate...

Memo To Dr. Jonathan On Healthcare

Research has shown that there is a strong correlation between health of a nation’s citizens and its development and this is neither a myth nor fallacy. If we must experience economic growth, the Nigerian government must take the health of its citizens seriously...

Nigeria and Türkiye: A New Era of Strategic Partnership

By Kenan Toprak & Isah Aliyu Chiroma President Bola Ahmed...

Problems of Tennis Development in Nigeria

My intent here is to show that tennis improvement and sports development is a long process that requires deep and careful thought, and it involves a lot of other things...