The Opposition Role in Our Democracy
A political party that is not in power plays the opposition role. The opposition role is that of preparing to go into government. This writer has not seen, of all…
Orji Kalu’s “fake degree”
The war of attrition between Abia State governor, Theodore Orji, and his predecessor Orji Uzor Kalu, took a bizarre turn two weeks ago when the Abia State University (ABSU) released…
Henry Okah: Judicial and Political Blunders by the Trial Judge (part 1)
On January 21, 2013 the South Gauteng High Court in Johannesburg, found Mr. Okah guilty of 13 charges related to terrorism. We’ll get to that and other matters; but for…
Ndoma-Egba: An exemplary leader at 57
In the words of Theodore Roosevelt (October 27, 1858 – January 6, 1919), the great author, hunter, naturalist and explorer, who was the 26th American President between 1901 and 1909,…
Rochas, Ndigbo And APC.
Perhaps, the most strategic, visionary and fore-sighted political move from the South East in recent times is the decision of the Governor of Imo State, Owelle Rochas Okorocha to join…
Of NASS & Plight of Legislative Aides
A careful assessment of man’s often predisposition to issues of public interest reveals that more often than not, things are taken for granted. This accounts, to a greater degree, for…
ACN Economists: Crying Wolf Where None Exists
The recent rabble-rousing by the opposition Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) over the state of the nation’s economy is, indeed, interesting. It has, once again, shown the knack of the…
The Freedom and Curse to Bear Arms
With just 27 words in 1791, America’s Second Amendment paved a blood-drenched trail for legal access to modern-day weapons used in videogame-like fashion to gun-down fellow citizens, military style. Now,…
…As Jonathan Resigns
Fellow Nigerians…Surrender is not defeat. I do not know how to start this, but I have started it and indeed starting is what matters. There’s always a first time and…
What time is it ‘twittering collective children of anger’?
Articles upon articles, day after day; I have read a lot of them and I am beginning to get apathetic. Though, I have found a lot of the articles fascinating…