Politicians live a life of noisy desperation. It is all about how to outsmart, outwit and oust any contrary opposition. Sometimes, what they term as opposition is not opposition in the real sense of the word…
It would be very absurd to use the word ‘mess’ to characterize the government in Abia, but we can use the word…
Response to Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani: In Nigeria, You're Either Somebody or Nobody
by Mary Shorun
by Mary Shorun
A somebody-nobody mind-set is at the root of corruption and underdevelopment in Nigeria. But this mindset is not necessarily birthed out of a househelp–family relationship. It stems from a personal selfish desire. And it is not just in Nigeria that you will find selfish people…
The First Lady lying comatose and breathless must have conjured the image of home without her imposing presence, her husband and her ‘rivals’; her children and above all the millions and billions stashed away, garnered through connubial corruption!
In leadership, you do not expect the leader to be championing the cause of others other than those he or she was elected to head or spearhead. In my estimation, I think Amaechi has done well in this area…
Until recently, public outcries that government agencies have been mismanaging the revenues they generated have been received as fallacious. And because most past legislative investigations into these allegations have ended up compromised, those carrying on this act seem to believe to have mastered how to circumvent the law…
By the time the ravaging global liquidity crush, which started on Wall Street in September 2008, was over, Nigeria’s own version of the financial fiasco couldn’t be more dramatic. Dropping from N13.5 trillion to N4.6 trillion, the country’s stock market had lost a monstrous N8.9trillion…
Umeh reminds me of how people in our country talk about religion so much, but hurl the word Karma around nonchalantly, as if it belongs to the Traditional Believers they regard as fetish…
As you plan to return to Nigeria, the fact that it is easier to leave Nigeria rather than return to it hits you smack in the face. Do you have a place of your own to which you could return? If you do, does it meet the standard of living befitting of a person who had lived overseas for 30 years?
Nigeria, the conquering African soccer Champions, seriously needs a ‘Moses’ to deliver her from self-inflicted national malaise, a ‘Moses’ to heal her of the wounds inflicted on her by combined forces of terrorism, religious violence, corruption and leadership otiosity…
Silence is not always the best response to a fool, so that he or she does not continue to wallow in abject foolishness, because fools don’t find the truth behind any situation before they open their mouths and talk…