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As an Igboman who spent close to a decade schooling in Benin city, Edo State capital, I make bold to declare that Benin city is my second home after Ihiala, my hometown in Anambra state. During my...
History has a way of reminding us of the past, even if we are not really keen about the issues brought before us.
Is it a lawful Police procedure to detain a married woman under investigation for affray in the same cell, with two males, and before nightfall, to add two other males into the same cell, overnight?
I would like to salute fellow humanists and skeptics, and other curious and inquisitive friends for honouring our invitation to the meeting of April 28, 2013 and for considering being there the best...
Calm down, patriot, those aren’t my words. Kindly transfer your anger to the grave of the Ugandan poet Okot p’Bitek who in his prose poetry book “Song of Lawino and Song of Ocol...
Party politics in Nigeria is for all comers where identity and values mean nothing. Members don’t need to have any special attribute. As a result, for instance, the Peoples Democratic Party (...
You've not done well with your oil wealth at all. To paraphrase one of the best known world president - Nigeria has so many of her citizens as one of the best in many countries the world over in...
As a country, we are still far from it. We are eon years away from that point when to die would be hard! We are decades away from that age when Nigeria’s maternal health statistics would be the...
Introduction: The Principal of Immaculate Conception College (ICC) Rev. Fr. Ofuegbu came to my home (next door to the college) to invite me to deliver this lecture and I did not hesitate in accepting...
The past half a decade has been perhaps the most challenging years since Nigeria’s return to civil rule in 1999. Literally, the fate of some 160 million citizens have been caught between...
The rapidly declining trust in the Nigerian advertising industry has taken a new twist due to the controversial, unilateral and furtive decision by the outgoing board of the Advertising Practitioners...
The Boston Marathon on April 15 in the U.S. can now be considered as a quintessential struggle between fear and freedom, and between hate and heroism. It was supposed to be an event that marked both...