Opinion

As the desperation of opposition linked new and traditional media reaches a crescendo, they have adopted Goebbels' philosophy that a lie told often enough eventually comes to be accepted by the public as true. It is therefore imperative to...

It is no longer news that the Anambra  governorship election has come and gone with the official declaration of Dr. Willie Obiano of the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) as winner, by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC). But...

Within the week, the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Aminu Tambuwal, did not stop at stirring the hornets’ nest; he took a step that has become common with Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) operatives, when he pumped smoke into...

Deeds and action speak louder than voice. In triumph, Mandela accepted all rainbows of people in South Africa. If there is any lesson to be learned from Mandela, it’s the act of forgiveness and reconciliation. While Africans finds it...

It is common, passing through some of the nation’s State capitals, especially those governed by opposition political parties such as the All Progressives Congress (APC), to see sign-boards with the inscription: “This road belongs to the Federal Government, please,...

Life is suffering. There is no alternative means of confronting and solving life’s problems than through a painful process. Discipline is the basic tool we require to solve life’s problems. Life’s problems evoke in us frustration, or grief, or sadness, or...

Last Thursday, South Africa’s President Jacob Zuma stood behind a podium and addressed his country. “Our beloved Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela, the founding President of our democratic nation, has departed. He passed on peacefully in the company of his family around...

While the pogrom against the unarmed and defenseless Igbo civilians was going on all over Nigeria starting from July, 1966, when some vengeful and misguided northern army officers kidnaped and murdered the Head of State Aguiyi Ironsi, the heinous...

Abia State under the stewardship of Governor Theodore Ahamefule Orji is not developing. This is elementary to say, because of the pummeled social and economic life in the state, orchestrated by touts, charlatans in government and street urchins. No human...

Sometimes, I sit and look: sometimes I look and sit: and sometimes, I just look, I don’t sit…and some other times I don’t sit, I don’t look…I just stare at the distance spaces, not looking, not sitting, just staring—Segun...