Today, we have Yar’adua and it doesn’t seem like there is any form of government in place. Or am I blind and deaf? He got sworn in and he went into hibernation…
Recent statements by President Yar’Adua sound promising and hopeful. But even if he means what he says, these are just the first steps in a thousand miles journey…
Without allowing people to exercise their franchise during an election, then the definition of this type of government called Democracy has no meaning…
A university remains a university no matter where it is located, even if it is in Enugwu-Ukwu or Ijebu Ode; its output should be evaluated against the outputs of other universities anywhere in the world…
A consortium of Nigerian intellectuals known as One Hundred Concerned Nigerians Abroad, have written a powerful letter to President George W. Bush of the United States, demanding that he end the war in Iraq forthwith…
The crucial acts of recognizing our rights and standing up to speak out for oneself and for others anytime anywhere are qualities I have always felt are missing in a lot of us…
Why it is that Africa swallow the principles of democracy but refuse to practice it in such a way that common Africans benefit from the gains of democracy?
Please don’t mind me: I am a new arrival, a JJC to Nigeria after almost three decades in Yankee. Since my arrival, I tend to get things wrong…
In The Horsemen and other poems, Nwakanma gallops through many seasons of war, ploughs through many cemeteries of fallen dreams, scales okra covered walls and chases dreams that never left our huts in the first place. And the reader comes upon this land of alien deities, and lands exhausted on the unwelcome mats of these strange people that worship feuding gods…
Blair, now in the twilight of his tenure and at the jaws and manacles of history, suddenly seeks to redeem himself with a loud, but clearly hollow and pretentious eleventh hour advocacy for Africa!
While a lot of people who gained financially from the leadership style of former governor of Rivers State, Dr. Peter Odili, are praising it as the best, many a people in the state he led for a good period of eight-years are crying foul and blue murder…