Since the inception of the nation’s ongoing democratic rule, on May 29, 1999, the Enugu state House of Assembly had been synonymous with its docile, inactive, and toothless bulldog nature. Ordinarily, legislators, ought to be persons of sound minds charged with making of human oriented laws
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PDP was a great party. It is still a great party, but more instructively, great in the nostalgic sense of what rose from a political party founded on nationalist ideals in the wake of Nigeria’s return to democratic rule in 1999, to a behemoth at the prime of its glory in 2007 when former […]
We have seen how church tradition by church father’s evolved the annual Easter observance without due consideration to the authority of the Word of God. Read about it “…the emperor convened a council of 318 bishops in the first council of Nicea in 325AD in the city of Nicea…They passed certain ecclesiastical canons at the […]
It is the new buzz word in town. Xenophobia! While it is a new word for a lot of people, for a few others, it is seldom used, for lack of opportunity. The Merriam-Webster English dictionary defines it as: “Fear and hatred of strangers or foreigners or of anything that is strange or foreign”. It is a disease which I guess some of my haters suffer from (LOL), a
So many reasons and rationalisations have been adduced for the epochal failure of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and its candidate, Dr Goodluck Jonathan, to re-enact its winning streak in the nation’s presidential and other elections held in March and April 2015. In a monumental and landmark stroke of ill fortune, the PDP could not […]
The recently concluded elections of March 28 and April 11, provide another vista for the assessment of the Nigeria Police in election duties. In a dramatic departure from previous elections, the Nigeria Police came out with an almost clean bill. They were widely commended for their professionalism and attention to duties. However, three reports: […]
The journey of a thousand years begins with one step – Chinese proverbWhat has reinventing yourself got to do with personal finance? Perhaps, I didn’t point it out in the two preceding pieces, and if I did, let me reiterate that it affects your bottom line in more ways than one. Those who don’t give […]
There is absolutely nothing about Nigeria that defies remedy. Not even its politics. It is possible that Buhari’s supporters, have reduced Nigeria’s complexities into a sweet, soft, lollypop. Buhari’s euphoric victory at the polls soon dies out, as he begins to navigate the multifaceted layers of Nigeria’s difficult realities. For one, Nigeria has never been […]
A number of progressive minded Yoruba have often argued that the South-West does not need to be part of mainstream politics in Nigeria to ensure its development. I have also been part of that argument. With the benefit of hindsight, that argument was just a consolation, because mainstream Yoruba have never been part of victory […]
It has been a difficult time for Africa. In Nigeria, the Oba of Lagos threatened to throw the Igbo into the lagoon, if they do not vote his preferred candidate. In the north of Nigeria, for six years, Boko Haram waged a war to establish an Islamic state and drive Ndigbo and non muslins from […]
According to the UK Trade Union Congress, about 5,000 people die annually in Britain of Mesothelioma and asbestos related lung cancer. Add to this about two or three times this number of deaths for victims of asbestosis, pleural thickening and pleural plaques, and you are beginning to imagine the damage that human health has suffered […]
Until 1994, for over a century South Africa was locked against the rest of Africa and indeed the country and her people were not easily accessible to the rest of the world as the white minority used their might to impose racial segregation, which denied the majority black of everything, including quality life and the […]
The general elections would remain a watershed in the annals of the nation. The taking-over of leadership mantle by the President-elect, Gen Muhammadu Buhari of the All Progressives Congress (APC) from the incumbent President, Dr. Goodluck Jonathan of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) brings to an end, an uninterrupted rule by the PDP since the […]
For a long time to come, Small and Medium Enterprises would continue to be a dominant factor in the industrial acceleration process in Nigeria. It has aided the economic empowerment of citizens, thus enhanced the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) of the nation. Small and Medium Enterprises however, are plagued with certain obstacles which militate against […]
For the first time in history, four Nigerians made it onto the prestigious Time Magazine 100 Personality of the Year Award. Nigeria’s President-elect Muhammadu Buhari, the arrow head of the “Bring Back Our Girls” campaign Dr Oby Ezeikwezili , award winning Nigerian writer Chimamanda Adichie and curiously, Abubakar Shekau, leader of Boko Haram. To be […]
The other day, I casually and light-heartedly sounded out a colleague at work, a well-educated Nigerian, just like me, of Yoruba extraction, what he thought of Buhari’s victory in the Nigerian presidential election. And before I could finish the question a seemingly hackneyed answer popped right of his lips as if a kindergarten regurgitating some […]
Tears dripped from my eyes as I watched President Goodluck Jonathan’s nationally televised address. His speech was short but momentous. He conceded defeat, and accepted the electoral victory of his political opponent, Mohammadu Buhari. In the lawless and unprincipled milieu of Nigerian politics, that concession of defeat by an incumbent president was unparalleled, almost,
For the first time in history, four Nigerians made it onto the prestigious Time Magazine 100 Personality of the Year Award. Nigeria’s President-elect, Muhammadu Buhari; the arrow head of the “Bring Back Our Girls” campaign, Dr Oby Ezeikwezili , award-winning Nigerian writer, Chimamanda Adichie and curiously, Abubakar Shekau, leader of Boko Haram. To be on […]
The barrage of media attacks being unleashed on Nigerian Shippers’ Council by faceless writers masquerading as terminal operators calls to question why they do not want to embrace change. We are worried because people who have been entrenched with corrupt tendencies are never amenable to change. To them change means an attempt to undermine their business […]
Without doubt, one of the reasons the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) lost massively in the 2015 general elections is the fact that the party wittingly or unwittingly embraced, nurtured and promoted impunity as the hallmark of its conduct, even in the affairs of state. Having come to power through elections that were far from being […]
