Opinion

As debates shift from issues of good governance to electoral calculations and permutations towards 2013, it is important that civic-minded citizens keep in focus and sustain public debate on pending disturbing developments in Anambra State. If we say we prefer...

Developing the mental and social abilities of the nation's over 9million Almajiris is one of the key promises that President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan has kept in this term of office. There is a popular saying that an idle mind...

Nigeria is on the wrong road. The spiral is clearly downward and time is running out for Nigeria. And if that is the case, we must go back. Going back is the quickest way on. When you know you’re...

Ezenwo Nyesom Wike the River state born lawyer is a high flyer, politically. He was said to have risen phenomenally from the lowest rank of politics as chairman of his home council to assume the key position of the...

Genesis (NIV Bible) 19: 4 Before they had gone to bed, ALL THE MEN FROM EVERY PART OF THE CITY of Sodom—both young and old—surrounded the house. 5 They called to Lot, “Where are the men who came to...

This is the first part of this essay. It is divided into two parts and derives its title from the argument that Ojo Maduekwe presented in response to Vin Otuonye who wanted Maduekwe to clear the concern of Igbo...

I know the biggest crime is just to throw up your hands and say "This has nothing to do with me, I just want to live as comfortably as I can." ~ Ani DiFranco I am a man of simple...

What has consistently escaped most Nigerians in this entire travesty is the fact that mediocrity destroys the very fabric of a country…ushering in all sorts of banality, ineptitude, corruption and debauchery. That…is precisely where Nigeria finds itself today! ---Chinua...

Double standards trouble me. Double standards in multi-ethnic Third World countries that are precariously balanced on a knife's edge trouble me greatly. In the light of this, the following questions have given me much concern : (1) I have often...

Oxford University is in Oxfordshire which shares a common border with the Cotswold arguably the most picturesque and scenic part of England.  However, we were denied the indulgence of proceeding with our scheduled excursion to Burford the mini-capital of...