Once again, Ohaneze, the apex Igbo socio-cultural organization is enmeshed in crisis. It is ravaged by schism and the pangs of division are threatening its already fledgling commitment to give direction to the storm-tossed Igbo nation…
The latest ranting by Governor Theodore Orji’s aides in the media is dishonourable. They have thrown decorum into the dust bin just as their principal has thrown a gemstone such as the position of a governor away and chosen to be a gainsayer…
It is good for the residents of a given society to pay their taxes, but the authorities concerned with the management of the people must make sure that the people’s taxes are promptly and judiciously utilized…
In several levels, it’s bad news that Mr. Jonathan’s handlers have their sights set on 2015, deny it as they may. Give the devil his due: the PDP has no equal in the department of power grab. It’s a party that desires power for the sake of power…
The man Olusegun Obasanjo is as complex and paradoxical as his record; here was a storied General whose famed native intelligence contrasted with his brash, dictatorial and vindictive tendencies. A man whose ability to manage large organizations, contrasted heavily with his messy private life of tens of concubines, and personal indiscipline within his home…
No doubt Mr. President did not surround himself with some of Nigeria’s best men and women. But, then, given the kind of arrangement we have in place that places not in his hands the selection of his team, should he just be blamed for having these men and women around him?
What I am concerned with is the fact that the reduction of the world to a global family has quite naturally led to a proliferation in the use of short forms. I mean short grammatical forms and of course acronyms…
Senator John Kerry, who will take-over from Mrs Hilary Clinton later this month, has no choice but to steer American diplomacy away from diplomatic hard attitudes usually attributable to ego-political and Geo-political designs…
Tennis Federations in Africa continue to face difficult challenges in this century. Some of the challenges include lacking the funds and human resources needed to promote and grow the game at the grassroots level, introduce tennis in schools, train coaches, and organize adequate junior tournaments locally and nationally…
Telling the truth is not always easy in a land that is characterised by untrustworthiness; therefore truth becomes an art of rebellion or opposition in the eyes of men and women whose only trade in stock is betrayal…
While the Holy Bible is an excellent source of information for the general understanding of godliness, spiritualism and mysticism, it is not a very useful source for understanding some Christian beliefs and practices. The reason is that the Old Testament focused extensively on pre-Christian Judaism while the New Testament offers scant information about the lives of the major individuals who laid the foundation for Christianity…