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Many years ago, when heavy traffic on Carter Bridge consisted of several new Raleigh bicycles racing along, some motorcycles and a couple of cars, a man returned to his village from Lagos, with a well tailored new dress, with which he hoped to cause a stir in Church the following Sunday...
My visit to Edo State was an eyesore.The roads are filthy, and non-drivable. The once beautiful city is in ruins.People are frustrated and lifeless in nature.Fear is resonant in the eyes of many.Everyone disappears from the street before dark for fear of armed robbers.Most homes have gates that are ten feet high and reflective of prisons…
My visit to Edo State was an eyesore.The roads are filthy, and non-drivable. The once beautiful city is in ruins.People are frustrated and lifeless in nature.Fear is resonant in the eyes of many.Everyone disappears from the street before dark for fear of armed robbers.Most homes have gates that are ten feet high and reflective of prisons…
Today, several notables are emerging as aspirants for the top position in Edo State.Those worth mentioning out of the pack are three powerful candidates briefly described here in a sequence reflective of their chances...
Most Nigerians would readily lavish praise on the governor of Ebonyi State, Dr. Sam Egwu, because of the glowing pictures often presented by the Nigerian media about his administration. Thisday Newspaper in particular cannot deny its culpability in this mother of all frauds...
Most of us did not really care whether or not Nigeria was at the World Cup. In fact, some of us were happy that we were not there. We have weak hearts and we cannot stand the tension and the hypertension that our team puts us through in certain crucial encounters...
No child ever says that he or she wants to be vice president when he or she grows up. It is a useless office and the holder is often a source of irritation to the president. So, for the children, I would call the vice president into my office and 'eliminate' him...
Events preceding the Nigerian civil war, and the part played by some Ijaw leaders at the time, and immediately after the war, especially in Port-Harcourt, have come to define the modern Ijaw political philosophy. A propaganda philosophy that could be said to be rooted in the fear of Igbo vendetta...
My father had been diabetic and because he was not particularly a man of some means, the disease wore him out. My father became paralyzed losing the use of most of his sense organs...
Mr. Obasanjo got it all wrong in hinting that PDP members of the National Assembly are supposed to be loyal to him and the party in all circumstance, laudable or condemnable. Is Mr. President trying to tell the Nigerian people that his party or any other party is bigger and more important than the project called Nigeria?
It is easy for us to turn our face and keep quiet when injustice is being visited on other people. If someone is being kicked to death outside our doors it is easy to turn the volume of the TV up and pretend not to hear the victim’s cry...
A cursory glance at the news media’s account of the management and reporting of the scores of the recent Jamb Exam is very troubling to any beneficiary of Nigeria’s education system...
The just concluded 2011 general elections in Nigeria have been widely acclaimed to be successful but not without the usual problems, drama and controversies which characterize Nigeria’s elections since independence...
The typical stereotype reputation of Lagos as a complex, hellish city where life is short and brutish got a positive boost recently in far away Berlin, Germany...
Our budgeting system in both the federal and state levels have become a joke. It is skewed heavily towards recurrent expenditures to sustain the exuberant and extravagant lifestyle of our leaders; their madness...
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