Opinion

The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one’s real and one’s declared aims, one turns, as it were, instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish squirting out ink.~ George...

I have no doubts in my mind that, anyone who will see the title of this piece will fall in to the temptation of concluding that, the author of this powerful, wonderful and revealing article is one of the...

Ordinarily, the recent Bill on Amendment of Governors and Deputy Governors Pension Law passed by Akwa Ibom State House of Assembly which received Governor Godswill Akpabio’s assent ought not to have hugged the headlines or even attract the media...

This is the worst of times in Nigeria. It is the time of foolishness. It is the season of darkness. It is our summer of despair and discontent. We have everything before us, we have nothing before us. There is...

Ordinarily we will not agree that the mission of the Governor of Abia State, Theodore Orji is to destroy Abia State. But from the look of his plausible deception and the use of propaganda in governance and against personalities’...

Then said he unto them, But now, he that hath a purse, let him take it, and likewise his scrip: and he that hath no sword, let him sell his garment, and buy one. (Luke 22: 36, KJV)_ In today’s...

After 15 years of uninterrupted democracy, it is important on this august occasion of May 29, 2014, to write this special letter on how to rescue our dear nation from the hands of unprepared and clueless leadership piloting the...

Exactly 386 days, or approximately 9,264 hours ago, President Goodluck Jonathan approved the appointment of then Nigeria’s representative to the African Human Rights Commission Mrs. Dupe Catherine Atoki to head the Nigeria’s Consumer Protection Council. Mrs. Dupe Catherine Atoki has...

The Convention on the Rights of the Child was adopted by the United Nations General Assembly on November 20, 1989. The Convention defines a child as, “A person below the age of 18, unless the relevant laws recognize an...

Many think that their being in the world is just about leaving it a better or bad place. As a result, different persons make or do not make use of the opportunities that abound in the world characterized by...