Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala is a patriot with nerve of steel and to her, Nigeria’s potential can be harnessed for the country’s greatness. Okonjo-Iweala plays an important and critical role in President Jonathan’s economic team…
In order to assist man to understand the consequences of wickedness and move on in life, the Psalmist has portrayed the dire consequences of wickedness…
No matter how the Nigerian economic team chooses to shade, equivocate or obfuscate it, the International Monetary Fund played a significant role, if not an upper hand, in the removal of fuel subsidy in poverty stricken Nigeria…
We have deemed it convenient to remind the state government to review from time to time some of its policies to see if they meet with the present realities…
Professor Chinua Achebe, the most influential African writer, a citizen of the world and a respected voice in the world, rejected an award from Nigeria. The issue is not so much that he turns down the national award but on how the Nigerian government handled the whole issue…
“Here in Cape Town, if you are a Nigerian, you can’t sleep with your two eyes tightly closed at night. I know it sounds odd, but that’s the truth. There are so many people who hate Nigerians here. They see us as dubious dishonest people that should be sent away without causing much scene that could attract global attention…”
Showers of tribute are still being disbursed to the late Dim Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu who was interred in his ancestral hometown of Nnewi, Anambra State, on the 2nd of March 2012…
By this hour of filing this report (1:50PM), today, 8 March, 2012, some people accompanied by soldiers allegedly from the state government Rivers State stormed Oyigbo, Rivers State, destroying what they claim are illegal structures…
My friend was lamenting what he was convinced was the striking facial resemblance between him and a Boko Haram miscreant who also happens to come from the same State, Borno…
To salvage my ebbing ego, I became a reluctant conscript into the platoon of online glory seekers called Facebookers. To many starry-eyed and bewitched fame seekers, Facebook is a hot platform. To me it is over-rated, over-bearing, intrusive, gossipy, divisive, controlling, thought numbing, marketing-oriented, immoral, crowded and addictive…
It was as if Nigeria could not quite make up its mind about the significance of the life and politics of this complex, infuriatingly confounding figure called Ojukwu – until the man breathed his last…
