Days before President Umaru Yar’Adua literally wept openly over alleged bastardisation of the 2009 Budget by the National Assembly, indications were rife that the visibly discontented President would head to the Supreme Court…
Two weeks ago, the United States Navy collaborated with the French navy to assault Somali pirates. In one incident, an American captain demonstrated bravery and leadership by giving himself up in exchange for his crew. He has been celebrated in the media, with an epic tang…
Analysis of the official pronouncements of top government functionaries in Nigeria on the current global financial crisis reveals one of two things: Either a clear lack of understanding of the depth and ramifications of the issue at hand or an outright trivialisation of how to go about it…
What an historic opportunity we in Nigeria have wasted. With our British legacy of parliamentary democracy, we could have been different, a model and beacon for the rest of the third world…
Not content with the daily looting of treasuries, bribes and all other forms of corruption perpetrated on the Nigerian people, home and abroad, it seems officials of the Nigerian Government, through the Nigeria Immigration Service, has devised a very innovative way of ripping off Nigerians who live abroad.
Don’t you sometimes wonder where our attitudes and beliefs originate? Whether you agree or not, people are basically a product of their environment, cultures and beliefs…
If you see any naija man out there, walking and gallivanting around as if he is king, tell him he is a dead man walking. In fact, if he tells you he rules the world – tell him to shut up!
The African literary landscape is coloured by those influenced by Things Fall Apart. Indeed, the man-behind-the-story is referred to as the granddaddy of African literature. Whoever is the daddy?
It is frightening that what may have started as genuine acts of protest have since been hijacked and elevated into a multi-million naira money spinner by those who are directly and indirectly involved in the business of kidnapping…
Mr. President, we have a model to show us the way. It is not Dubai, as some commentators on the Niger Delta have suggested. It is Venice. It is Venice, not Dubai, because like Venice, the Niger Delta is in the main a collection of islands and marshy terrains…
Mummy was a workaholic who had no office like daddy but daddy opened a shop for her at the Umuahia main market to console her. To keep her busy mind, hands and legs engaged and distracted. It was a provision store full of household goods and articles…