Category: Columnists

In order to make some sense out of this heading, it is necessary to clear first of all, some extraneous issues. All public discussion, to be worthy of the name discussion, and not just a display of ignorance or emotion, has to be logical. Any discussion that is not based on correct logic is useless, […]

America’s ruinous more-than-a-decade war and invasion of Iraq led to civilian deaths of upwards of half a million people (about the size of the entire population of Washington DC), though conservative, documented figures would put the civilian death toll to anywhere between 182,000 to 206, 000. American troops died in their thousands too (including contractors), […]

The Holy Book instructs: “God is not mocked, whatsoever thou soweth, that ye shall reap” Most of us, particularly Christians among us are very familiar with this biblical injunction. But like everything else, we Nigerians are only fond of quoting or parroting such scriptural injunctions in our public or private conversations without putting them into […]

Sometimes in our dealings with people, I notice that it is easy for us to forget or ignore the fact that in the past, we were without Christ. We were a nobody and without a name, ( no identity). We were strangers from the covenant of promise, we had no hope, we had no God […]

When I was a teenager, I worked a lot with my mother, I was a home girl living in my home town, conversant with home chores and cool with domestic affairs. I loved my home town market and I was good at chanting those words (call them songs) as I sold my wares. As a […]

The current controversy concerning the inauguration of the 7th Edo State Assembly which has been tearing the state apart for some time now should not surprise anyone who has paid some scant attention to the peculiar political psychology of Nigerians. For a couple of weeks now, the entire print and broadcast media in the country, […]

It is no longer in dispute that the Nigerian elite have failed spectacularly. Big time, and in historic manner. By their complete irresponsibility, Nigeria, a jewel in the sun, with high promise and high optimism at independence, has been brought to her knees by blunders committed by her elite, the very group that should have […]

Mind slavery, mental slavery, mental serfdom, is an unsung epidemic. An epidemic whose effect is worse than any physical epidemic. Its effect on the society is one which we can not begin to quantify, or properly qualify. ‘Tied down by themselves’ Mental serfdom, lack of independent thought, holds down many individuals, many families,  whole ethnic […]

In all sane societies, ancient and modern, Judges are in a class of their own. Indeed, their position in the human society and from time immemorial, had been considered so important and even sacred that they are often referred to as “priests in the Temple of Justice.” Upon deep and sober reflection, this epithet best […]