The contemporary Africa is not your grandfather’s Africa. Many countries in Africa including Nigeria, South Africa, Ghana, Kenya and others are now classified as emerging economies. While the rest of world are mired in recession and anemic economic growth, Africa economy has been growing…
There are billionaires in Nigeria who do not know what to do with money again. They only continue to stockpile more money in different hard currencies as if they are preparing for a competition…
What God has promised to do on earth since Creation, He has dutifully been doing and HE will continue to do, till time indefinite. The man-made gods of earth, politicians, bankers, false prophets, seers, witches and wizards, occultists, magicians, evil men, war-mongers have proved incapable of creating the atmosphere for abundant life on earth…
The fundamental role of government, which is without doubt the most important function of government, is the protection of life and property. Anambra State’s center of normality is being swept away and distorted by insecurity…
Poetry in Nigeria, the most populous African country, has evolved remarkably over five decades of independence. My grandfather was a poet who composed in his head and shared his culture through epic poems, employing the craft as a way of remembering oral history, stories, genealogy, and law…
Which subtler way to put the recent display of violent demonstrations in parts of Egypt, Libya, Tunisia, Yemen, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Sudan and now northern Nigeria, which was characterised by burning of flags and pictures, and even leading to the killing of people in some cases, over a stupid obnoxious video clip?
As I wrote to complain about the traffic mayhem and gridlocks on Nigerian roads last week, and particularly so, about the traffic standstill in Choba Port Harcourt, a bridge on a major road artery in Port Harcourt actually collapsed soon after!
The press is now immersed in photographing men and women in order to expose their nudity. The serpents of illusions are crawling over the world…
Being a carefully orchestrated dollar coup against the Euro, it is understandable why rather than Europeans celebrating, it’s now Americans who are celebrating the euro crisis. Not by ordinary Americans and British, but by respected Washington insiders…
This September, the United Nations General Assembly will meet. It is time to return the UN to the path of strict application of international legal rules in the conduct of international affairs…
It is observable that somebody in Abia State Government House, Umuahia, is taking a prescription for leprosy in the place of malaria…