Alfred Nobel, perhaps the best known Swedish man, was a weapons maker. In fact, he invented the dynamite. He was also a mean hombre; a hard-nosed businessman. He practiced a…
If you have been following recent happenings in our polity objectively as it concerns the general elections in the past three months, you will understand it is now clear to…
A history of modern world geo-politics records President Barack Obama’s successes and human failures. He planned to be a path-finder for the New Age of American politics, but met with…
An atavistic fear of power erosion has visibly gripped the ruling party. Its internal feuds do more damage to the party than the combined Onslaught of the opposition parties. The…
I read with diligence and unmistakable pride, Buhari’s Chatham House speech. Two weeks ago, I listened with rapt attention to Jonathan’s lecture on “stealing and corruption” “Things are getting more…
My Facebook readers know I am not one of those propagating the false impression that Accra, or Ghana as a whole, is Africa’s new Eldorado – a place to which…
Every Nigerian now has to bear the brunt of a mismanaged economy courtesy of the Jonathan administration. If only we knew we wouldn’t be better off now than we were…
Nigeria is a country where anything is seemingly possible; a land of miraculous signs and wonders – apologies to the prosperity preachers; a modern day Ruritania – apologies to Anthony…
This piece is a call to civil duty. It is dedicated to all the victims of the modern institution of slavery in Nigerian; to the innocent victims of the most…
My dear readers, Goodluck Ebele Jonathan is right: “stealing is not corruption”. In a society where 70% of our people live on less than one dollar a day, while the…
The reason why we are still lagging behind in the comity of nations is because our government – both past and present – failed to prioritize every given opportunity in…