Opinion

DAME: PIONEERING A YOUTH ONLINE AND ICT CYBER REVOLUTION

The adverse effect of the quest to be logged on is taking a big toll and addiction not just of teenagers around the world but also adults. This has affected the society tremendously in our everyday lives and activities...

YOUTHS AND THE COMPOSITION OF THE NATIONAL DIALOGUE COMMITTEE

We would have had an ample reason to question the resourcefulness and altruism of our intelligentsia if they had continued to look at issues surrounding the national conversation proposed by President Jonathan from the regular prism without paying heed...

NIGERIAN POLITICIANS AND THE SPIRIT OF UNFORGIVENESS: OBASANJO-ATIKU CASE STUDY

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Politicians of Nigerian extraction have the penchant to run down enemies  until they have been crushed by a moving trailer, ciourtesy of their spirit of unforgiveness. Unforgiveness, by my observation, is a spirit which keeps reminding one of the...

THE SCRAMBLE FOR AFRICA LANDS: CASH RICH BUT LAND POOR; WHOSE INTEREST IS SERVED?

Land grabbing is not a new phenomenon. For centuries, communities have been intimidated to abandon – or have been forcibly removed from – their land. However we are now witnessing a new aggressive land grab, driven by high food...

JONATHAN’S NATIONAL CONFERENCE AND THE TRUE BELIEVERS

Permit me to begin this contribution with the words of Senator Femi Okorounmu who is the Chairman of the President's Advisory Commitee on the National Conference. In the February 12th edition of the National Mirror Newspaper he said the...

NIGERIA: LEADERSHIP, SOVEREIGN NATIONAL CONFERENCE AND THE ROLE OF CULTURE

Leaders in any society or country such as Nigeria are produced by and from the people. The people’s conduct or attitude in turn is the product or living examples of their society’s cultural system. The people’s or society’s value,...

NIGERIAN WORKERS AND WORK ETHICS

A studied view of some Nigerian workers brings to the pellucid surface flotsam and jetsam of brazen and utter disregard for work ethics and professionalism. Pragmatic and religious observance of even common nuances, forms and rules of the work...

JONATHAN’S “JEBU” CONFERENCE AND TINUBU’S HIGHER LOGIC

Just when the Jonathan government was celebrating the dummy they sold to Nigerians about a National Dialogue or when they thought they had hit a home run with their idea of a National Dialogue, Bola Tinubu returned to puncture...

ALI BABA AND HIS 27 THIEVES IN IMO STATE (PART 2)

In my last article I talked about Ali Baba the  character from the medieval Arabic literature Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves.In the literature story   Ali Baba encountered 40 thieves and later became their  leader. In my last article, I...

ENJOYING SEX GOD’S WAY

The Bible's prohibitions against our misusing our sexuality are there to protect us, not to punish us. Scott Farhart, M.D., the author of Intimate and Unashamed, from which this article is adapted, has this to say: As a Christian...