Without much emphasis, it is in the news that King TJT Princewill is the first Professor to be anointed a King in Rivers State and also the first Kalabari King to head the Rivers State Traditional Council of Chiefs…
Rather than mouth the Happy New Year greeting like I used to at the beginning of each year, I’d rather keep my mouth shut. And pray and hope harder. Pray and hope harder? Yes. Pray more for myself and for my country and hope that the 2011 general elections will actually be free and fair…
As a non-Arab concerned with the plight of the people of Palestine and the burgeoning non-beguiling ordeal of the people of Iraq, I am forced to wonder about certain what ifs, such as, what if Saudi Arabia was democratic?
The people of Nigeria are pinning their hopes that their plight and wishes are addressed by the next government regardless of the ethnicity-trend…
For me, the bombs that were flying around, the killings that wore the hood of religion, and the kidnappings that resonated across the land, were all symptomatic of the disease brought by the zoning clone…
Whether INEC was made by way of carrot or just conned to blast us with the recent make-belief Delta rerun election result is still debatable? What is, however, not debatable is that the result abuses commonsense…
Nigerians are electing new leaders this year (2011). Therefore, it makes sense that all eligible adults should participate and get involved with the electoral processes. Make sure you vote and guard your votes…
Look at the predicament of the Nigerian-American columnist and professor who came home recently. The security people seized both his passports and asked him to report for an interrogation. When he showed up, the SSS made him understand that his name was on a watch list simply because the government of Umaru Yar’Adua did not like him…
It was just a matter of time before Chinese currency Yuan will join the family of currencies traded in Nigeria’s foreign exchange market…
In order to confront the economic downturn, the whole world has resorted to expansionary monetary policy, reducing interest rates to historical low in order to jumpstart the economy, enhance financial activities and create jobs; Nigeria needs to learn from these actions…
President Barack Obama it was, who once stated that Africa needs strong institutions and not strong men. But now we know these statements are mere deep end platitudes, in view of the fact that America, Israel and Europe prefer strong man, dictator and tyrant president for life Hosni Mubarak of Egypt…