Opinion

More than the morbid count that emerged from the ill-fated recruitment exercise of the Nigerian Immigration Services last week, the graphic illustration of nearly a million Nigerians packed like sardines in stadia and various public places all over Nigeria,...

Education is the process of cultivating the human person and inculcating in him or her qualities that differentiate us from other animals.  Whether formal or informal, education makes it possible for the individual, not only to understand him or...

Emeka Ihedioha, is the Deputy Speaker of the Federal House of Representatives and incidentally the Chairman of the House ad-hoc constitutional amendment committee that actively worked with their opposite in the Senate which make up the National Assembly's constitutional...

From the tenor of media reportage of the opening ceremony of the ongoing National Conference in Abuja, it is crystal clear that the President Goodluck Jonathan’s administration has scored significant mileage by its convocation. However, beyond the mundane or rather...

Last week, I was privy to a little note written by Coordinating Minister of the Economy and Minister for Finance, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, in which she summarized that recent setbacks will not undo Nigeria’s progress. While I am not in the...

Coming from the most neglected, dejected, suppressed, denied, relegated, mocked, downtrodden and unwanted minorities of the Nigerian nation, I should have been convinced by a reluctant conscience that this effort of writing a memo to a Nigerian National Dialogue...

2015 presidential elections is going to be an epic battle as President Goodluck Jonathan and his Ijaw brothers are set to teach the entire northern establishment especially the Hausa Fulani a bitter lesson. I have heard my northern friends and...

Wake me up when Gusau is gone. Why in Good God’s name did Jonathan not accept Gusau’s resignation letter? *That’s a rhetorical question. We know why; because Jonathan is desperate for the voting bloc he believes Gusau and Babangida can...

Land grabbing is not a new phenomenon. For centuries, communities have been forcibly removed from their land. However, we are now witnessing a new aggressive land grab, driven by high food prices and growing global consumption, with multinational corporations,...

There should not be simplistic arguments that Abia people from all walks of life recently, reassured their support for former Governor of Abia State, Dr. Orji Uzor Kalu, at his Igbere home town. One million man-convention from the 17 Local...