Last week, I extensively talked with a set of enterprising, upwardly mobile young men and women in Abuja. I chose to label that interactive session “lamentations of...
In recent times, Anambra State has been unfairly and provocatively plagued by unrelenting rumours of phantom insecurity and artificial atmosphere of scare mongering that nudge...
By Tiko Okoye “Nothing is intrinsically valuable,” wrote American novelist John Barth. “The value of everything is attributed to it, assigned to it from outside...
Last Friday, I went to the first Republic political capital of Igbo states which is Enugu. The stories of organized crimes I heard people tell...
From very early in life, attempts were made to inculcate in us, some virtues of life. Our parents maintained that the commission of crime was bad;...
In the Yoruba country, once someone hits the public arena, the first question asked is, “Who is his (her) father?” I know a Yoruba chap...
An Esan proverb says, “It’s in the mouth of an elder that the maize is strong.” That’s, it’s an elder – with farming experience – that...
Prof. Temi: It is preposterous, ridiculous, and unbecoming of the Academic Staff Union of Universities to poke its combative nose into matters that do,...
By Femi Falana, SAN Globally, subsidies, whether for food, transportation, energy or housing, are part of good governance. So, the issue is not subsidies but...
The 9th national assembly is the worst in the history of Nigeria’s democracy. It achieved nothing relative to its fundamental responsibilities. It was an appendage...