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 …

It would be very absurd to use the word ‘mess’ to characterize the government in Abia, but we can use the word…

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 …

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 …

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, …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …