Perhaps Nigeria is the only country or among the very few countries in the world where the rulers come from the most backward and poorest region of the country…
I love the Igbo tradition but followers and admirers of the Igbo culture will tell you that Ndigbo have this thing for goats and cows, particularly goats…
Nigeria’s problems are multifaceted, the fact that we have an educated class that cannot discern right from wrong is disheartening and I don’t see any way forward when the so called elite in our society are not capable of critical thinking...
The legendary Harvard Professor of African and African American Studies and Romance Languages and Literatures, Abiola Irele, recently turned 70. Wumi Raji reports…
When I first came back to Nigeria as an IT consultant four years ago, I told a friend that NITEL was a lost cause when it comes to bringing the Internet to homes and businesses; I still stand by that today…
Concerned as he is with the issue of female genital mutilation, Sembene Ousmane still makes sure not to confine himself only to it in Molaade. Rather, he transcends it in the film, turning it into an issue around which a struggle for change is waged…
Are we as a nation still naïve enough to believe that our teenagers and even adults will abstain from sex because their teachers tell them to, or because of a few ads on television?
The thing started like a joke, the outburst between President Olusegun Obasanjo and Vice President, Atiku Abubakar
If the leaders and people of South-East and the South-South can come together and present a common front to ask and fight for a leading role in the coming 2007 elections, the whole issue of marginalisation might come to an end…
Can Tony Blair of Britain cross over from his party to the Conservative Party and still remain the Prime Minister of the Labour Government. Can Dick Cheney in America cross over from the Republican Party to the Democratic Party and still remain the Vice President?
Can Tony Blair of Britain cross over from his party to the Conservative Party and still remain the Prime Minister of the Labour Government. Can Dick Cheney in America cross over from the Republican Party to the Democratic Party and still remain the Vice President?