Historically, citizens of the Niger Delta have been a thorn on the flesh of pre and post-colonial Nigerian governments. Not a people to suffer injustice in silence, they have a …
Sabella Ogbobode Abidde
Sabella Ogbobode Abidde
Please, do not ask me about religion. I get the evil look every time I tell people I am an agnostic who teeters on atheism. My world resolves around ethics and the rule of law. That’s it. I have no use for religion: religious convictions are not part of my existence -- the laws of man are good enough for me. I have lived in several cities: Seattle, Miami, Norman, Minneapolis-Saint Paul, Saint Cloud, the District of Columbia, Houston, and Mankato. I am not sure where I am going to live next. And I have never really had a profession, only jobs: been a cook, a dishwasher, a civil servant, house cleaner, university instructor and researcher and so on and so forth. Every so often I get questions concerning the role and place of the African woman. Well, I don’t know; at least not with any certainty. What seems to work best is when both partners work as a team: cooperate, coordinate and collaborate their marital efforts. And they should be mindful of the insidious effect of modernization on the African family.
-
-
What manner of peace is Dr. Koripamo-Agary talking about? What is peace and at what price is the Yar’Adua government seeking it? Is the government ready to be sincere and …
-
If you have been living in the West for much of your productive life, and you are now clocking 55, 60 or 65 and with the urge to return home, …
-
Whether Nigerians and the global community like it or not, the time for mass hanging has come. The time is ripe for the systemic elimination of twenty-five percent of Nigeria’s …
-
As educated, street-smart and well-travelled as Nigerians are, they seem to have a high tolerance for stupidity, cowardice and mediocrity. Otherwise, how could men like Obasanjo, Abacha, Babangida and Shagari …
-
“I still insist that there is a land registry at the FCTA. You go there and do your investigations instead of asking me to respond to pure rubbish…. What is …
-
This is the story of how three sons of the soil helped to impoverish their state. This is the story of how three Ijaw governors – Alamieyeseigha, Goodluck Jonathan and …
-
No one can guarantee the Nigerian people and the Nigerian state peace, security and stability insofar as the Niger Delta crisis is concerned. No one! Not even the Movement for …
-
All is not well in Yenagoa. The major participants – Jonathan, Alaibe, and Sylva – all have daggers drawn, concealed by overflowing cloak. In all of this, Governor Timipre Sylva …
-
It is unlikely anyone knows for sure the number of successful or promising Black men who are dating, or are married to White women. All we know is that the …
-
Insofar as sub-Saharan African women are concerned, they generally do not look or feel comfortable or secured in the company of White men. It is as if they are not …
-
You see, I have been cheated and taken advantage of so many times by taxi drivers, market women and by my neighbors so many times that it is no longer …
-
Long before the formation of the most ferocious non-state group to ever traverse the Nigerian landscape, I had penned a series of essays warning of dire consequences: unless measurable and …
-
Facebook is fast becoming a medium for self-promotion, for grandiose statements, for keeping and for settling scores, for venting their frustrations, and for shamelessly espousing their religiosity…
-
At the aftermath of the unprovoked attack on Ijaw communities in Gbaramatu kingdom of Warri South West Local Government Area of Delta State the Ijaw nation wishes to state with …
-
My generation was born, grew up, and came of age at a time when Nigeria was not this disordered. It was a time when poverty was not this rampant and …