The Abia State Government-led by Governor Theodore Orji, without equivocation, sees lies as the best policy to replace good governance with…
I had the rare honor and luck of being close to the revered Achebe for some thirty years. In that time, he was an inspiration, model, beacon of moral clarity and intellectual integrity as well as my teacher in the best, broadest sense of that word…
It was the publication of There Was A Country that served as my sole premonition of the imminent death of my father Chinua Achebe. When he published it, my first reaction was “oh my God!” That was because for years, he had only commented in snippets on the Nigeria-Biafra war…
That the APC acronym has suddenly become the ‘beautiful bride’ being wooed by every Dick and Harry must send the clear message across of our degeneration as a nation. The acronym of acrimony which the APC represents speaks volumes of our mediocrity and lack of ideas…
Imo PDP, that rustic club of free loaders, is angry. The members are weeping and gnashing their teeth. They are swearing and cursing. Chei, they want the good old days badly. They want a recreation of the free meal era and they will pay anything to have that era back…
As one of my friends will say, the greatest affliction is a self-chosen blindness just because it cannot be cured unless the person so afflicted decides to free himself from the type of self denial that visited him with such affliction…
In today’s Nigeria, one of the major problems of food production is poverty. On the other hand, one of the simplest and a doubtless truth that you can easily know about Nigeria is the fact that over 75% of her rural dwellers are full-time farmers…
I’m writing on behalf of disenfranchised Nigerians. I’m writing to bring to the attention of those in government that millions of our frustrated youth and their powerless parents have nowhere else to look than their government…
President Goodluck Jonathan’s pardon for Chief Diepreye Alamieyeseigha is expectedly eliciting quite a lot of surprise, indignation and condemnation. Public commentators and individual citizens have used the media to express their disappointment and anger…
While we congratulate Uhuru Kenyatta for his marginal presidential election victory in his country we must remind him, in the spirit of pan-Africanism, that it is not yet Uhuru!
As I am writing this I keep on thinking: What kind of a people are we Nigerians? What the heck is the matter with us? What manner of men and women have we become because of money?