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Recently, the Minster of Foreign Affairs has been making headlines and this is due to his non-appearance before the House committee on Foreign Affairs to explain the level of last year's budget and defend the 2009 estimates...
There is always something about the behavior of the Nigerian state - the inactions and derelictions of her officials - that appears to have been lifted right out of my grandmother’s expansive bank of morality tales...
In many African countries the wrong kinds have made it to leadership. They seek power for their own aggrandizement rather than having a real understanding of the need to improve their countries or its people...
I have often tried to reconstruct the scene in my mind: three Youth Corp members on their knees, scared out of their wits; fifty or more ferociously armed guys dancing round them, chanting Allah Akhbar...
In many African countries the wrong kinds have made it to leadership. They seek power for their own aggrandizement rather than having a real understanding of the need to improve their countries or its people...
Professor Ben Nwabueze, a constitutional lawyer and a former education minister should be ashamed for being a part of the team that drafted the 1979 constitution...
To understand the grossness of the injustice currently being perpetrated against former EFCC Chairman Nuhu Ribadu, one has to appreciate the depth of his achievements...
Considering Dr. Goodluck’s remarkable political ascent to date, only a fool would wager against his further ascent. Dr. Goodluck is a man with good luck, even if he is not the most politically astute...
This week, my ever curious eyes took a peep into the various arms of government in my dear country Nigeria. And my eyes specifically picked up one of the most dangerous blight silently eating away our social, economic and political fabric. This is no other than sycophancy...
I wonder why we need to be policed all the time, why voluntary compliance is so lacking. Self-discipline has been thrown out the window, and we need the brutal arms of uniformed men to coerce compliance out...
There is, indeed, no gainsaying the fact that the age-long aphorism, “if you fail to plan, you plan to fail” becomes much relevant considering the observably untoward socio-economic realities cum apparent confusion in the workings of the leadership in Nigeria as of now...
Perhaps some influential thinking person or people will prevail upon the federal minister of education to begin a process to reclaim the minds of our youth. Mental states such as semi-illiteracy and illiteracy do not become them...
...The point is made in very subtle ways that women writers are a kind of second class citizens who should be kept together, - out of the mainstream - to read and make critical analyses of their own works. In addition, if one were to look at review space on the pages of books, novels by men get better coverage...
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