Category: OP-ED

Nigeria is standing on the edge of a dangerous cliff. It is just a matter of time before it tips over. Rather than the current emotional and politically driven call for a “revolution”, we all really need to calmly analyse and situate the cause(s) of our problems. In any case, a revolution without a vanguard is a recipe for anarchy.… Read More

Travelling is part of man’s daily activities. We all embark on different journeys whether from the bedroom to the bathroom or from Calabar to Italy – these are all journeys. It was the founder of philosophical Taoism, Lao Tzu, that once averred in his book, the ‘Tao Te Ching’, that “a journey of a thousand miles begins with a single… Read More

In light of xenophobic attacks on Nigerians in South Africa, the Nigerian Government must first deploy adequate logistic facilities to rescue Nigerians left in South Africa and insist that those killed and the properties destroyed, must be replaced and the South African Government must pay adequate compensation in this regard. If the above mentioned is not given, then the Nigerian… Read More

Democracy is freedom; freedom to exist and to exercise the full catalogue of natural rights. The quality of democracy in an ordered system is assessed by the quantity and level of freedom the citizens enjoy. Any type of government – military, fascist or totalitarian – can deliver services of material nature to its citizens; building hospitals, schools, roads and providing… Read More

At the end of the Nigerian Civil War (July 1967 – January 1970), and in preparation for a possible return to civilian rule, the ruling class established – or rather, creatively adapted – the dual principle of “zoning” and “rotation” of key political party offices and government positions among geopolitical segments of their class. Some leading ideologues of the newly… Read More

The greatest threat to democracy as the government of the people is when morally corrupt elements have their way to the corridors of power. They constitute much abuse of and disregard to the rule of law especially with regards to the Fundamental Human Rights of the people. By his reckless utterances and illegal actions, the power-drunk Governor Nyesom Wike of… Read More

When countries around the globe are busy thinking of how to build world class universities that will have positive impacts on their societies, it is unfortunate that some universities in Nigeria could still be burdened with the task of keeping cows away from their classrooms. Sometimes, stories about happenings in Nigeria are just unbelievable. Or, how can anyone fathom a… Read More

Those, who are still hoping that the African continent might someday reinvent itself for the better are at best hallucinating, at worst living in the world that’s out of it. Africa has remained a basket case and no amount of outward buck-passing on “How Europe Underdeveloped Africa” can change the self-afflicted tragedy the continent had visited upon itself long after… Read More

“We cannot stop the xenophobic attacks. The truth is that we are an angry nation. What is happening cannot be prevented by any Government.”- Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula, Minister of Defence, South Africa.  Yet another insulting, provocative and irresponsible statement from a senior figure in the South African Government.  First, it was their Minister of Police who said that in some towns… Read More

On Tuesday, September 11th, 2001 when four passenger jets were hijacked and intentionally crashed in the United States of America, killing nearly 3,000 people, many knew that it was the start of a dark era in the stability of the world order. However, few would have imagined eighteen years on, the effects of that fateful day would continue to be… Read More