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If I were President Yar'Adua finally I would consider stunning the outside world as I mark my one year in the saddle by renouncing my illegitimate mandate!
No one has a monopoly of wisdom. And no one should be afraid to speak up if and when they sense misdirection or duplicity in the public discourse. No society can thrive without its intellectual class. At the same time, no society can prosper without those bold enough to question...
Before military manners destroyed the civic and humanitarian disposition of Nigerians, we were very humane and caring people. Our neighbours were part of family...
When avoidable tragedy occurs, one could liken it to a scenario where the thieves clothed in the appellation of leaders sat down with an agenda to eliminate the children of the teeming poor people of Africa...
It is instructive to note that I have severely criticised Obasanjo’s style of governance and his administrative failures in many articles, but I have never subjected him to personal abuses and insults, as many people do...
Ohakim has a message for Ndigbo; don’t continue dwelling in self-pity, stop lamenting the tragedies of the civil war because the civil war is over, stop blaming others for your woes, work to attain whatever you want to attain...
Some observers of the post-1983 Nigerian political scene have come to the conclusion that the Igbo are their own worst enemy. Indeed, one cannot but be perplexed at the miscalculations and self-immolating tendency of the Igbo elite...
"We are armed robbers and we have come to collect our Sallah gift. Let's go to your room..." I was not scared of the armed robbers. But I was angry. I was very angry that I stayed in that hotel unarmed. I did not want to die like a wimp, with my hands in the air…
Out of the seething, smoldering ruins of our collective horrid judgment, a giant Phoenix is born, worthy prodigy of the master Phoenix Chinua Achebe. Achebe lives! Adichie lives! Hurrah for the resilience of the human spirit. Chimamanda, I celebrate the mystery of you...
Chief Christopher Adebayo Alao-Akala, the outgoing Governor of Oyo State is a disturbed man. His valorous stand off to the imperial conceit of Ibadan social, intellectual and traditional elite is truly Ogbomoshonian in its breathtaking performance...
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...
Some people marry for love. For economic reasons. For social status. For stability. For children. For cultural purposes. Or simply because it is the logical thing to do right after they’ve achieved some measure of success...
Last week’s call by President Umar Musa Yar’Adua on the National Assembly to expunge the irredeemably iniquitous Immunity Clause from the Nigerian Constitution, most surely, ranked, in my opinion, as the most significant thing the man had uttered since he assumed office...
What Celtel as a new player in the Nigerian telecoms industry is doing today is ignore one of the most powerful structures in English syntax, the simple sentence, to appeal either to our sense of values or to our base emotions...
The effort to transform Nigeria can only be meaningful if competence and character are not sacrificed on the altar of federal character, says the National Transformation Party...
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