I recently watched an American football game in a large stadium filled with sport loving Americans. The excitement and passion I saw on everyone’s face strained me in trying to understand the game. The referee blew his whistle almost every 10 seconds…
Nigeria has so far achieved theoretical quantitative macroeconomic fundamentals, but a lot needs to be done particularly on stabilizing her bearish Naira currency. Although Naira is relatively stable, it is weak and soft when you compare it to other major currencies…
There are punishments better than death. Death takes only a few seconds to initiate. Long prison sentences, naming and shaming and hard labour in prison will always be effective deterrent against corruption. Can you imagine Bode George, Tafa Balogun (and even the yet-to-be-convicted James Ibori) with cutlasses, spades and shovels working on a building site or cutting down trees on state farms under the hot sun and watchful eyes of brutal warders?
Other than the pain of bereavement, I wonder if there is a greater pain than the pain of being dumped by a lover. When someone dies, you pray the Lord to take the soul; but when you are dumped, you feel as though your soul is being taken…
The Nobel Prize Committee and its intellectual hamlet have not forgiven Chinua Achebe for equating his book as the antithesis of Conrad’s Heart of darkness. Those that witnessed the event and others misunderstood Things Fall Apart and Chinua Achebe…
Everything with some of us seems to be about short-term gratification, and the future is consigned into the hands of fate and for other people to fix. When we have erected sub-standards around us and have pulled the environment down to that mediocre level, we then expect giants and worthy leaders to arise from the ashes…
A performance evaluation does not necessarily guarantee effective evaluation or the competence of a teacher. Other multiple evaluative data sources such as student evaluation, peer evaluation, independent evaluation, are also needed to show competence…
With the mass, historic and hysterical surrender of the Boy’s Scout fighters along the Niger Creeks, it becomes obvious that the causal nexus of militancy has been defeated. What a sorry sight to see a rag tag multitude of untrained ‘freedom fighters’ hurry to surrender…
Some have suggested that there is a perspective out there that many of our ‘African Majority’ churches, both mega and minor are comfortable with the status quo. A status quo, mono-cultural in its complexion, which brings in the massive crowd…
Whoever they may be, Political Deities seem to
me to be the greatest threats to the survival of democracy in
The majority of Ndigbo, today, are determined to take their destiny in their own hands, and to retake their rightful place in the country their fathers and grand fathers once led…