Discussing Nigeria’s glory using the past tense like some wannabe all-conquering soldier long dead can be excruciatingly frustrating. Although our poor exploits (or lack thereof) were always well hidden in the huge dollars...
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The numbing helplessness from all the layers of Nigerian authority appears almost conspiratorial and as the country is buffeted from the four corners of the compass by rabid bloodletting and insidious national dismemberment,...
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Two young Nigerians inspired this article, the subject of which has been nagging my intellectual interrogation horizons for some time, given developments around us. These two are Charles Ogbu and...
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Government should mean a lot more to us if we expect political, social and economic progress. The countries we now know as “advanced countries” did not get there, driven by...
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Nations have swerved from intractable paths of political and economic regression onto highways of prosperity, political stability and social equality, not by systems of government but by the visions, choices...
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Ikem Okuhu I woke up on Saturday, March 13, 2021, with my mind on a mission that was totally against the will of my mortal body. Having read some provisions of...
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AN OPEN LETTER TO GOVERNOR IFEANYI UGWUANYI Your Excellency sir, To be honest, I wasn’t quite surprised when the news reached me that Enugu State Government, under your leadership, was about to...
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The American Presidential election of November 3, 2020 was a referendum for my sanity. I don’t exactly know how I arrived at such a strange process of validating and certifying...
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On Tuesday, June 16, 2020, a report in the Daily Sun newspapers proclaimed that the Vice Chancellor of the University of Nigeria, Nsukka, Prof Charles Igwe, marked his one year in office with...
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BEING TEXT OF A PAPER PRESENTED BY FORMER DEPUTY PRESIDENT OF THE SENATE, HIS EXCELLENCY, SENATOR IKE EKWEREMADU, PHD, CFR AT THE BRANDISH MEETING OF MINDS COLLOQUIUM HELD AT THE...
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I come from a community I could well say I do not owe anything. My father opened his doors for everybody who had a need, and that was virtually everybody. My mother’s...
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The minders of the Nigerian brand would certainly be silently celebrating the recent pronouncement of an arrest warrant on embattled United States President, Donald Trump for very queer reasons. Recall that just as...
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