The yuletide is upon us again. It is that time of the year when both true and copycat Christians traditionally assemble to celebrate the birth of our Lord and savior…
A victim of circumstance is a person whom something bad happens to because of factors outside his control. I’m not from Abia state, neither am I a fan of the…
“People who live in difficult circumstances need to know that happy endings are possible” – US Supreme Court Justice, Sonia Sotomayor. The resilience and determination of Gen. Muhammadu Buhari to…
I used to teach the SATs. And one of the modules that gave my students the greatest problem is the one known as ‘critical reading’. The students were getting those…
In war of propaganda any side with a megaphone will certainly have the loudest voice. The other party without a megaphone cannot shout louder. When some people on the staff…
My weeklong visit to Nigeria last week was enlightening. Here’s one of the clearest things I discovered: that most enlightened Nigerians are deeply dissatisfied, indeed troubled, by the state of…
Must Rule Charlatan Syndrome is a kind of political disease mostly transmitted to politicians by their politically demented supporters. The infected victims are every where in the polity of our…
It always comes down to this. How selfish, greedy and insensitive can some of these our rulers be? They are parasites feeding fat on the blood of the people, causing…
If your e mail address is accessible on the internet, you must be tired of reading varieties of spam mails on a daily basis intended to scam gullible Nigerians who…
Shortly after he was sworn-in as governor last month, Fayose ordered the closure of a petrol station in Ado Ekiti giving a standard made-in-Nigeria excuse. That filing station belongs to…
Nigerians ought to be having an urgent, indeed fundamental, debate about the very direction of their much-troubled country. Instead, I fear that too many of us are content to frolic…