Turf Game
Nkwerre wu college o oyoyo
Nkwerre is one of the many towns that make up Imo State. It is even more importantly, a few of...
Leadership tales and Nigerian woes
As things stand today, Samuel Ortom is one of the greatest Nigerians alive. He is more specifically one of the...
Any African who sees Europe and marvels is not a scholar
Ours was one motley crowd. We were made up, on one hand, of couple of oven-fresh millionaires. And, as is...
For leadership lessons, the East may have to go West
The problems with the Nigerian thinking class must include their insistent rough purchase of fine ideas. Too often, they magisterially...
Why does mediocrity thrive?
Why does mediocrity thrive? A delectable writer asked. I thought the answers were self-evident. However, if it is not, here...
Abraham and Oduduwa of the Igbo is Eshi
Too often, the pre-recorded history of the Igbo is left in the hands of myth-makers who have an agenda to...
Dictators, democrats and our broken sovereignty
There is little doubt that Nigeria parades some of the best and brightest lawyers in town. But that, one suspects,...
To be rich, purchase freedom, not stocks
Writers, whether they so say or not, are teachers. Professor Chinua Achebe at least considered his role, principally, as that...
The Colonel crashes in to retire a party
Colonel Dangiwa Umar’s 30th May letter to President Muhammadu Buhari caught one laughing and amused. Laughing because Umar got heroic...
Elders are archeological if not anachronistic relics
Both George Obiozor and Ibrahim Gambari have come a long way, all too probably together. The twain are both professors...
