Opinion

Regardless of final agreement, time will tell if Tea Party has not already damaged U.S.A. United States financial analysts are trying to reassure the world markets that there is nowhere else to go. Well, think again because there is...

In Bangladesh, a man forced into marriage vents his frustration by beating his wife when she disobeys him. In Cambodia, a husband justifies slapping his wife on the grounds that she must have done something she shouldn’t. In Indonesia,...

I used to believe that Nigerians who reside abroad – especially those in North America, Europe and the UK – were, on the whole, more likely than their home-based fellows to act as catalysts for positive change and good...

I have heard people call for the sack of Minister for Aviation Stella Oduah. Some of the loudest voices calling for her head include the cantankerous Femi Fani-Kayode and more recently Lagos based activist Bamidele Aturu. They say there has...

Until recently when the Nobel Committee swiftly presented the 2009 award to President Barack Obama who had just occupied the Oval Office, promising to effect a change in the hawkish, hegemonic and aggressive nature of American foreign policy which...

We are known for our hard work, industriousness and forthrightness.  We are Oraifite people and Oraifite means Ora group and Ifite means people and putting them together means group of people living together with common custom and traditions. Oraifite...

Will you leave your pearls with a thief believing he has changed? Will you wait and hope that a thief you leave your pearls with will change? Will you write and protest that a thief you leave your pearls...

In recent months I have had a cause to comment on several issues concerning Rivers State. This is because these happenings have far reaching significance beyond the geographic confines of that state. I am heartened that prominent Nigerians like...

When the soap is dirty, what shall be used in washing it Nigeria is a beautiful land; that's  a statement of fact. We take everything and anything, infact sarcastically we take nothing. We go to bed and wake, what we...

All through the epistles, diverse labels are assigned to the real man or human spirit. These include “Old man,” ” “New man, “Inward man,” “Hidden man of the heart” or “Hidden man of the spirit and Building of God.” Now,...