Many Christians believe in their pastors, rather than in their bible. Many Muslims believe in their Imams, rather than in their Koran…
The clandestine and often veiled reference to the politics of a second term beyond 2015, involving the interest and the re-election of the incumbent President, Goodluck Jonathan, which have often been dismissed as a distraction by the President and his aides is characteristically breaking out in the open. Will the President contest a second term in 2015?
Jungle justice has been defined as when a population, precisely an irate mob, takes it into their hands to execute punishment on alleged offenders of a heinous crime. The alleged culprit is hardly ever given the right to a fair hearing and the opportunity to defend himself before the sentence of death by burning and torture is handed down…
President Goodluck Jonathan on Tuesday October 9, 2012 announced plans by the federal government of Nigeria to respond to the current ravages of floods throughout Nigeria…
Even as those four young men were being bludgeoned to death and burnt, elsewhere in Port Harcourt, the rains had started. Gently at first; then it started pouring. Then as twitter was on fire on Sunday the 7th of October, 2012 with campaigns for justice for the murdered boys, the skies over Port Harcourt caved in again…
Viemudu Igho (1919-2012): Typically Nigerian, Distinctively British!
Why are we here, and where must we need go after now? The story of Pa Viemudu Igho tells it a little. And a great account as this should start from cradle…
Africa has become a jam-packed place for the West to dump its dangerous ammunitions. The West has also found an ugly trade in toxic waste in Africa…
Confronted with stagnating domestic markets, declining absolute profits, and the need to evacuate redundant dollars overseas, the Rockefeller-led neoliberal globalists believed it was time for global economic restructuring in a way that would break down all barriers to international trade and investment…
A friend on Facebook freshly asked that as I profess so much that ‘love’ should be shown to all equally, whether I would give a homosexual the same quantity of reverence, kindheartedness and communal insertion that I would a hetero in Nigeria…
I will like to make it clear that I am firmly convinced that there is nothing wrong with Nigeria that cannot be cured; all we need is the personal courage to make eye contact with reality, regardless of what it looks like, and to have the collective ability to live with the consequences of our actions and inactions…
Fifty two years after what is largely described as our flag independence, Nigeria lies wrecked and hobbled. A country that breathed much hope and inspiration fifty two years ago is today a sad and regrettable instance of what a nation should not be…
