Miscellaneous

The current food crisis can be defined as a combination of decline in stocks of primary or staple food produce and escalating prices of food products…

Most Ghanaians are not expected to live longer than 50. This is what the United Nations, UN, life expectancy Index, 2007 says…

One of the continuing challenges posed by unprecedented urbanization in developing countries, including Nigeria, is the provision of adequate and affordable housing…

One evening I was chatting with Asata outside the student union.  He had, he said, some “bomb weed.”  I had tried weed before and it did nothing for me.  But …

Even the hardest of hearts would be melted by the moving story of Miss Chioma Aribe, the 19-year-old Engineering student of the of the Yaba College of Technology currently waging …

It is not a common occurrence in the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC to respond to every unfriendly report about the anti-graft agency or its leadership…

A day came. That day was a dark and dreary one. She was gone and the doctors had warned us. But the husband wouldn’t give up his beloved wife…

I visited the web site for Nigeria Vision 2020 today and was shocked at the image that stared back at me – the eye of a Caucasian person!

Sometimes I lose myself in the uncertainty of my place in the world.  What set of traditions and customs in particular make me who I am?  If I abandon those …

By the early to late 1990s, the society of Nigerian intellectuals had become mushy, clay-like, adulterated, corruptible, and puerile. It became a laughing stock…

In present times, advertising via whatever means, has gone highly cerebral while scintillatingly appealing to all the senses of already captured or potential customers…

In recent times, our mail boxes are inundated one time or the other with tons of urban legend messages that heed us to watch out for rat faeces-infested coke cans, …

“I do not regret returning to this country when I did. We had goals, we were encouraged by our vision of creating a better world. But I regret what Nigeria …

The human mind works in funny ways and it helps if you can just exercise it; stretch it a little bit, for one practically useless purpose…

The title of this piece which has nothing to do with the global food crises may as well have been Begging for Bread at Shoprite. Yes, that’s what they make …

I think that the moment we move away from discussing our social, economic and political issues and get into attacking personalities, that we will no longer be any different from …