Contributors

They say you don’t speak evil of the dead. Any and every conflict and ill will are supposed to die with the deceased. It’s like when someone dies; they become an angel or an assistant angel, at worst. The devil could die today and his neighbors will show up and say how nice he was. […]

One advantage of shopping on-line is the sheer convenience of it all. It used to be something one did from a straight-backed chair across from a personal computer. And that on its own was sufficient to challenge so many shopping paradigms. Shopping trolley? Gone. Rough-hewn personnel at the checkout counter? Gone too. Even the conflicting odour […]

I have no illusions about the challenges (some of which are beginning to manifest) and limitations of the new mega party being proposed by the country’s main opposition parties. The reality is that the All Progressives Congress (APC) can only go so far in the quest to lift our people from poverty, disease, unemployment and […]

“Mr Shekau said his group had done no wrong and so an amnesty would not be applicable to them. It was the Nigerian government that was committing atrocities against Muslims, he said. “Surprisingly, the Nigerian government is talking about granting us amnesty. What wrong have we done? On the contrary, it is we that should grant […]

“Until this Government understand justice, honesty and fairness, let them organize one million prayer vanity fair, God will just laugh at them from heaven and have them in derision”.

It is very common, in Nigeria, to hear the phrase ‘this is politics’. Often, to a politician it means, this is my prerogative. In other words, ‘it is my jurisdiction and I set the rule’ seems to be the message. The ‘rule’ could be anything conventional or unconventional, written or unwritten, civil or uncivil, persuasive […]

Justice or peace? Basically that’s what it boils down to. Since the beginning of the offensive by Boko Haram, there has been widespread debate about how to bring the bloody onslaught to an end. With so many divergent voices lending themselves to the debate of whether the particular strategy developed along the lines of amnesty is […]

GOD’S MERCY AND HUMAN PARDON Introduction: 1. There is a well known saying which goes like this:“God always forgives, human beings sometimes forgive, nature never forgives”. This statement is an expression the fact that the issue of forgiveness is quite complex and not so straight-forward as it may appear to be. In this message I […]

“Never explain, never retract, never apologize. Just get the thing done and let them howl.” – Nellie L. McClung

Indeed, we cannot help wondering if the recent insensate massacre of Chinua’s people in Kano, only a few days ago, hastened the fatal undermining of that resilient will that had sustained him so many years after his crippling accident. —Wole Soyinka and J. P. Clark. “Chinua Achebe Death: We Have Lost a Brother”. The Guardian […]

Created out of the old Anambra state on 27 August, 1991, Anambra State has so far been led by the following individuals: Joseph Abulu (Administrator), 27 August 1991- January 199; Chukwuemeka Ezeife (Governor) 2 January 1992-17 November 1993 SDP; Dabo Aliyu (Acting Administrator) November 1993- December 1993; Mike Attah (Administrator) 9 December 1993- 21 August 1996, […]

The new world order comes to Durban this week – for the fifth BRICS Summit, and the first in Africa. Dilma Rousseff, Vladimir Putin, Manmohan Singh, Xi Jinping and Jacob Zuma represent a changing world, as gravity and power gradually shift from North to South, and West to East. Between them, they preside over nearly […]

“Nigeria is instead plagued by a despondent dearth of men with character…”

When Stanford University’s Professor Joel Brinkley wrote a largely incoherent opinion article on Vietnam, leading Vietnamese in the United States and back home in Vietnam came together, petitioned, countered him and then demanded that he resign his position at Stanford University. One of them called the article ‘the most misinformed, bigoted piece of claptrap on […]

The main aim of Boko Haram is to shed blood of innocent people in the name of religion.

“If immorality is pardoned, then there is no incentive for morality.”

Nigeria is part of the international community and has obligations to join the rest of the world to fight official corruption.

“Every time an elected official exercises discretion, he is sending a message on behalf of the state.”

“In a sane country, a government will not stand and watch her citizens be slaughtered like festive cows.”

“After all you did in Bayelsa; your detractors are still yapping and accusing you of stealing.”

“Now that Nigerian students are not guaranteed hitch-free education in their own country, why won’t they think of trying other countries?”

 “While the average women’s representation in parliament across Africa is 19%, Nigeria is at 7%.”