A speech by a leader or one who aspires to lead should galvanize: it should inspire confidence in all who listen to it and chart a course of hope in an otherwise hopeless situation…
Where does the Niger-Delta arms come from? Who gives these unemployed, unhappy Urhobo youths AK-47s and mortars to eliminate his in-laws the Itshekiris? Where does the intelligent Itshekiri group get their machine guns…
If there is any group of people that have been misrepresented either by their kind or those who don’t know or have not met them, it will be the Nigerian woman…
I refuse to believe that the Guardian has not ‘killed’ stories in the past which may run contrary to the business and personal interests of both the owners and the editorial team members…
Why would any presidential aspirant pray for Yar’Adua’s death at this period? I may be naïve, not being a politician, but I refuse to buy the argument that Yar’Adua is the man to beat in this election…
“I am a Nigerian, deep in my heart, I am a Nigerian; but how do I find my way back?”
I couldn’t think of any reason why Her Majesty the Queen would remember me, I made sure I paid my income and council taxes, I hadn’t been in any fight with my neighbours, at least lately, neither have I been indicted by any UK or Nigerian constituted body for corruption or money laundering…
Some five thousand people in any given Nigerian city suffer from catarrh on any given day, yet, they don’t go to Germany for treatment…
A segment of the Nigerian Press hit a new low in the past couple of days, as they engaged in poor taste journalism and rumor mongering!
He had a nice face, his nose was round like mine, and his eyes were smiling at me. He looked like a cool breeze, like fresh rain on a summer morning. I liked looking at his face…his face just took all the butterflies, known and unknown, away…
When I write, like many patriotic Nigerians, it is to beam some light on some of the darkness in our polity, hoping that those in whom the power to effect changes reside might wake up to their responsibilities. Our society is the way it is because most of us do not ask questions of our leaders…