There are some telltale signs of a perishing society, observed Alexander Solzhenitsyn. These, according to the Russian literary immortal and Nobel laureate, include acute scarcity of great statesmen and decline…
I was motivated to write this piece after going through “The Ceramic Cup“, an experience of a former United State Under Secretary of Defence, culled from “Leaders Eat Last” by…
Things have been going well for many Nigerian Pentecostal pastors for so long. Many have become multi-billionaires as leaders of mega churches. They are far richer than their peers in…
Anambra, the mercurial pearl of Igbo nation nestling River Niger, is in the news again. We are not about to revisit the ferment of executive intemperance that led the sitting…
If you were young, courageous and had ambitions or dreams of being president in 1960s Nigeria, the place to be was in the Nigerian Army. That description could easily fit…
It is not exactly new talk; the news is that it came from the lips of Aliko Dangote, thus breaking the age-old culture of silence. Summoning a moral courage rare…
Nigerian parents spend a fortune on education in foreign countries, but who can blame them for giving world-class education to their children? Perennial closure of the universities, brain drain and…
The old squirrel, according to an ancient Edo riddle, habitually sips from the gourd of iniquities. His lineage is forbidden from eating the palm kernel near its warren. But out…
Rather than provide answers to why they were the true winners of the 2019 presidential elections, the petition submitted by the People’s Democratic Party to the election tribunal appears to…
She could not have been older than 12, but was found running a business for someone during school hours. On a hot Friday afternoon, when other kids of her age…