It has become obvious that the fear of Kalu is the beginning of political wisdom in not only Abia State, but in Nigeria, if the likes of Orji are having a nightmare…
The perceived show of might between the Rivers State Governor and the striking lecturers of the Rivers State University of Science and Technology under the umbrella of ASUU has taken a different dimension…
It amuses me to hear people asking the Government of Oyo State to provide alternatives to people whose illegal structures are being demolished. Why should the government be responsible for providing alternatives, when the Government never allocated these land or shops to them in the first place?
Our younger brother’s wife was bleeding, losing a lot of blood, laid out on a bed at the National Hospital, Abuja. She had just delivered a baby, their second in just over two years. My sister informed me that despite serious pleas from everyone in the family, from clinical staff at the hospital, and from concerned strangers, my brother refused to give his consent for his wife to have blood transfusion…
We’ve got post-modern crimes and criminals and post-modern fraud and fraudsters; post-modern poverty and post-modern opulence. There are post-modern athletes and post-modern entertainers, post-modern thinkers and post-modern writers. There are out there post-modern builders and post-modern wreckers as well, post-modern homosexuals and post-modern heterosexuals…
Through the stress-laden labyrinthine process of getting admission into universities, very few Nigerian youths often get what they desired in the first place. The rest are often compensated with something entirely different…
Increasingly loading the country with huge unproductive debts, sooner rather than later, ours will become a junk economy. The danger with the debt-trap is that as soon as a nation is inside, it becomes much easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle…
In any organised environment, it behooves the government to be concerned with the good affairs of its citizens, but Orji-led government sees this as the last principle of a sustainable development. The government has continued to build hope without anything to show for it…
The world of literature has been corrupted by those journalists who revel in scandals, grinning from ear to ear and reveling in obscenities. They deliver marital offenders to the executioners, in circumstances of utmost humiliation and sadism…
The more some of us want peace to be restored in Abia State among all the politicians in the state, the more some uncouth rabble-rousers are throwing stone; some are throwing sand, or even both…
On 14th November 2012, as I waited to board the British Airways flight to London, I sighted a turbaned gentleman, a Tuareg from Mali. He said that he was from the newly proclaimed Republic of…