Still on Jonathan, opposition and 2015
I would be deluding myself if I imagined that my article last week, “2015: Who will defeat Jonathan?” would not elicit the kind of “violent” outbursts that have trailed it.…
Noble Public Servants of Yesteryears
In recent years, the aura of honour and respectability attached to employment in public service has regrettably faded and is now replaced by popular perception of greed, insensitivity, corruption and…
As the Church Slept…. The Trilogy
2011 has been a particularly rough year for the Church in Nigeria. To the best of my knowledge the Church has never felt so insecure and threatened than she has…
What if Men menstruate, get pregnant? A voice for Women
Each time I decide to write on subjects that are miles away from politics, I feel this internal joy; the type I am sure my father felt the moment I…
Akwa Ibom 2015, Umana and Mass Hysteria
The election to determine who would succeed Chief Godswill Akpabio as the Governor of Akwa Ibom State may be two years away but it has generated considerable interest among Akwa…
Abuja-Lokoja Highway & The Vultures in Aso Rock
Abuja-Lokoja road has become the most dangerous highway in Nigeria due to the numerous death from accident and blood spillage of Nigerians. It is obvious to spiritually discernible persons that…
Ghost Workers And Indulgent Exorcist
The free encyclopedia defines a ghost, in traditional belief and fiction, as the soul or spirit of a deceased person or animal that can appear in visible form or other…
What Does Dame Jonathan Want From Rivers State?
Ladies are nothing but constitutional ghosts and like ghost workers through whose invisible entrails, billions have vanished into Nigerian burial grounds. —Wole Soyinka It was another gridlock on Saturday as…
June 12 & The Road to Conscience
When Professor Eghosa Osaghae succinctly described Nigeria as a ‘Crippled Giant’, he was merely speaking the minds of many. That appellation, if we are to further interrogate it, describes everything…
Hon. Chibudum Nwuche and Politics of the stomach
A prominent analyst who is conversant with Rivers politics once told me that politicians in our State are merely suffering from a withdrawal syndrome. Once upon a time, they had…