To a first-time visitor, much of Nigeria is likely to appear like the wreckage of a long war, what with its gutted roads, rutted infrastructure, the near-absence of electric power, and the paucity of pipe-borne water…
Nigeria’s current most senior military officer is fat. No, he is not just overweight. He is obese. Air Marshal Alex Sabundu Badeh is the most out-of-shape military officer I have ever seen in my life…
I have had several sad conversations in the past two weeks with friends who, like me, are from Anambra State. The conversations have focused on the local government election held in the state on January 11…
What we can do is to raise our voices to a crescendo of resistance; speaking out against every form of police irresponsibility, abuse of power and brutality. We cannot subsist on a repast of police violence every day…
The truth about the government of Governor Theodore Ahamefule Orji of Abia State can only be bent, but cannot be broken…
The traffic situation in Akobo still remains the same as I left it four years ago. It is always a great battle from Akobo Ojurin axis to get to General Gas bridge in order to link anywhere you may be heading to. It takes nothing less than two hours forty-five minutes to get through the traffic jam that under normal circumstances should take any motorist only ten minutes…
What obtains in Nigeria obtains in the US, albeit with slight modifications. You do not need monkey-like summersaults before raising your child in God’s ways. You cannot allow your children to be so spoilt to the point that they become incorrigible and constitute permanent liability to you…
If you are deft in the sign-language of politics you will agree with me that by now, every indication imaginable points to the fact that Goodluck Ebele Jonathan is running for a second-term in office as the president of the most beautiful nation in the world…
It’s become settled practice: every four years, INEC puts together an obscenely expensive show called “elections.” But the point of the bazaar is to enable the various political parties to exhibit their varying levels of versatility at rigging…
To hate Israel is actually to hate yourself, because it is inviting God to hate you. To hate Israel is to bring darkness into the world. Satan knows it, and he wants darkness here, and he has leaders driving that darkness…
The Nigeria presidency is under attack. This is true considering the barrage of abuse, insult and innuendoes targeted unfortunately at the office. The perpetrators of this act, under the guise of attacking the occupant of the office, are indirectly attacking an institution that should be revered and given all the necessary support and co-operation…