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...

Does Little Miss Precious Trust Me?

I once heard in the mouth of a trusted friend that "expectation is the mother of all disappointments" and the lesson sank in well for I had reneged on an earlier promise I had made...

Global Food Crisis: Causes, Impacts and Solutions

The current food crisis can be defined as a combination of decline in stocks of primary or staple food produce and escalating prices of food products...

Is Mother Really Supreme In Africa?

Most Ghanaians are not expected to live longer than 50. This is what the United Nations, UN, life expectancy Index, 2007 says...

Understanding the Concepts of Affordable and Social Housing in Nigeria

One of the continuing challenges posed by unprecedented urbanization in developing countries, including Nigeria, is the provision of adequate and affordable housing...

The Emperor’s Son

One evening I was chatting with Asata outside the student union.  He had, he said, some “bomb weed.”  I had tried weed before and it did nothing for me.  But I was never one to turn free stuff down.  So we strolled and we smoked...

We Can Help Save This Little Girl!

Even the hardest of hearts would be melted by the moving story of Miss Chioma Aribe, the 19-year-old Engineering student of the of the Yaba College of Technology currently waging a gallant battle against a life-threatening liver aliment...

EFCC Annual Report: Olumhense Got It Wrong

It is not a common occurrence in the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC to respond to every unfriendly report about the anti-graft agency or its leadership...

Living On A Borrowed Life!

A day came. That day was a dark and dreary one. She was gone and the doctors had warned us. But the husband wouldn't give up his beloved wife...

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Is the Nigerian Judiciary Robotic Constrictive in the Corruption War?

What is the purpose of law? The purpose of law in Nigeria certainly, cannot be to give ringing endorsements to persons who have been censured, persons who have received public opprobrium at home and abroad...

Osun guber: Lessons from Ekiti (1)

The off-cycle election in Ekiti State, which secured the...

Alams’ Pardon: The Privilege of Indignation

President Goodluck Jonathan’s pardon for Chief Diepreye Alamieyeseigha is expectedly eliciting quite a lot of surprise, indignation and condemnation. Public commentators and individual citizens have used the media to express their disappointment and anger...

On the Murder of David Kato, the Ugandan Gay Rights Campaigner

We the undersigned condemn in the strongest possible terms the murder of Mr David Kato the Ugandan gay rights campaigner. We wish to state emphatically that homosexuality is neither a sin nor a social or cultural construct...

Nigeria @ 50: No Compromise, No Surrender

While I agree that Nigeria's 50 years of independence have little to show for its strength and age, writing it off as a failed nation-state is erroneous, misleading and reflects impaired judgment...

Is Nigeria Worth Dying For?

Love, respect and loyalty are the primary ingredients for patriotism. Nigerians are devoid of these ingredients. Loyalty to the country takes a back seat to ethnicity...

Why Kalu Hasn’t Taken Fashola to Court On Deportation

It is good to live in harmony and happiness. These were the words coming from an ex-Governor of Abia State, Dr. Orji Uzor Kalu, when a select of journalists approached him on his return from Zimbabwe...

The Rot In NDDC: Beyond Titillating Tales From ‘Port Harcourt Girl’ And ‘Uyo Boy’

Nigerians are fond of turning very serious matters, even...

Project Nigeria Revisited

When a child falls down he looks at the...

“Accountability” in Oyo State: A New Word in Alao-Akala’s Lexicon

What Alao-Akala is doing is steal enough money with which he can create his own niche, establish his own connections and power base, and buy up everybody who is for sale in Oyo State in order to facilitate his re-election in 2011 since Adedibu is no longer able to rule Oyo State by proxy...