For questions, contributions or requests, please send an email to:
articles (at) inigerian.com
By contributing, you certify that the article is your own original work, or material you have permission to submit for publication here on iNigerian.com. You further affirm that the work does not infringe upon any copyright, proprietary, or personal rights of any third party.
October 5 is set aside to celebrate teachers across the world. World Teachers’ Day is iconic. It cuts national and regional boundaries. Unfortunately, for...
If you happen to know any Nigerian armed robber, pickpocket, small-time con artist, low-level 419-er or participant in medium-grade crime, do invite them to...
Corruption, which can be defined as dishonest or unethical conduct by a person entrusted with a position of authority, often to acquire personal benefits,...
Social Darwinism perfectly describes our current situation in Nigeria. This term was coined in the late 19th century to describe "the idea that humans,...
Bruce Warioba is my actual name. I had to change it to Warris when I arrived England in the sixties. I was black and I didn’t want to add to the trouble by telling them a name they would not understand thereby relegating me totally...
While it may be an over-generalization to label all Igbos charismatic, sometimes a self-evaluation of the individual in the mirror might bring out a perceived confident smile; while to the on-looker, it might represent a boorish arrogant smirk...
It is important to reproduce here that the great historian, Prof J F Ade Ajayi, debunked the theory and the belief that the British bombarded Lagos because it was a notorious “slave depot” in 1851 or annexed it in 1861 because “the permanent occupation of this important point in the Bight of Benin is indispensable to the complete suppression of the slave trade..."
It is horrifying that some 73 percent of street children in the city are subjected to abuse and suffer from chronic malnutrition. Mortality and morbidity status among the street dwellers has reached an alarming level due to lack of basic healthcare services...
When I write, like many patriotic Nigerians, it is to beam some light on some of the darkness in our polity, hoping that those in whom the power to effect changes reside might wake up to their responsibilities. Our society is the way it is because most of us do not ask questions of our leaders...
My father is a big man with menacing features. He ruled his household and my home village with an iron hand. No one, no one ever talks back to him, at least not in his presence. My sister was the only person I know who has ever told my father she hated him...
Perhaps as a result of our faltered pre-independence history, or our near preoccupation in post-independence Africa with the inefficiency of our governments, we hardly ask ourselves whatever should be of the role of government in our daily lives...
It is understood all over the world that one of the features of democracy is freedom of speech and allied freedoms. However, certain freedoms become an aberration given conditions and backgrounds surrounding their manifestations...
We use cookies to ensure that we give you the best experience on our website. If you continue to use this site we will assume that you are okay with it.