Give a Nigerian an inch, and they will take a foot; give them a foot and they will take a yard…that is us. Your mechanic will always try to take advantage of you, as would your carpenter, tailor, painter, bus-driver, taxi driver, vulcaniser, bricklayer and plumber, butcher, petrol attendant, not to talk of the market-woman. Even your lecturer in the university.

Last Tuesday the whole world was informed of the transition of Comrade Hugo Chavez, the ailing President of Venezuela who passed away in a military hospital in Caracas two weeks after returning home from months of battle with cancer in Havana…

The eyes with which I see the world, which makes me approachable or amiable or dignified or capable is not Nigerian. I get that from my vicinity. From that view, we can be better friends than we currently are…

The 2013 “Black in the Mediterranean Blue” event, part of the Lagos Black Heritage Festival in Nigeria, will celebrate that strong cultural bond between Brazil and the people of Nigeria. This year’s festival will be themed around a “Bring Back Brazil” concept, with Professor Wole Soyinka as Festival coordinator…

It was in the days of our fathers that love of a brother was supreme. Hardly these days, because the bond that once held families together has been pierced by the unknown enemy…

It was sad to note that gunmen attacked Dr. Orji Uzor Kalu recently, at his hometown of Igbere, Abia State. They showed their shameful act by shooting sporadically at a bus being piloted by one of his aides. Did they think that Kalu was on the bus?