Opinion

These days, some news in the media elicit so much angst that you cannot help but laugh at the ineptitude that passes off as ministerial duties.  On the other hand, one wonders why some public officers think that some...

Many of us have been inspired by the speech given by a former Minister, and co-founder of Transparency International, Ms Obiageli (Oby) Ezekwesili a.k.a. “Madam due process,” at the APC summit which held in Abuja, March 6th, 2014. I...

Elected under the banner of the markedly Igbo-interest APGA party, Willie Maduabuchi Obiano, a banker of international repute, a philanthropist and cultural custodian, a devout Catholic, a friend with a versatile sense for humor and a good son of...

50 years after, another Azikiwe has taken concrete steps to link the industrious South-Eastern part of Nigeria to the rest of the country by a second bridge over the River Niger that would mainly link the "traders" to their...

The soul of Barr Ezebunwo Nyesom Wike, the Supervising Minister for Education, is wedded to tribulation. Nigerians are not sure when he would disdain his gullibility, droopiness, condescension, fluctuation, amongst others. In February this year, Wike in his contemptuous manners...

This is a the story of Beatrice, Solomon and the Nigerian Police. Beatrice is not her real name for privacy reasons, but all other names, including those of the Police Officers are real. When Beatrice (not her real name for...

Until you hear the Scotsman play the bagpipes in the early morning mist of the Scottish highlands, you have heard nothing. Until you hear the Irish maiden sing ''O Danny Boy'' on the lush green fields of the Emerald...

In two separate donations to the ten communities of Igbere in Bende of Abia State, ex-Governor of Abia State, Dr. Orji Uzor Kalu donated four hundred bags of rice and two million naira to the people. Igbere, being his country...

The jinx that has bedeviled the NB2, otherwise called the Second Niger Bridge, is finally broken.  Last Monday (March 10, 2014), President Goodluck Jonathan performed the historic ground-breaking ceremony for the second bridge across the Niger to link the...

As Anambra prepares to ring out the old and ring in the new administration, the stakes and challenges can’t be any higher. The State is at a precipice with a weary population that have suffered and endured so much...