Stella Oduah: The axis of revenge
The late literary icon, Prof Chinua Achebe was at his proverbial best when he stated in one of his novels…
The governor Akwa Ibom needs
Akwa Ibom State has come a long way. The state that hitherto wallowed in underdevelopment, poverty, ignorance and illiteracy has,…
Editorial: The PDP Spectacle of Endless Drama
The sad turn of events in the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), with the suspension of key members of the…
The Blessing of Oil: A Peculiar Mess
Our parlous economic predicament is generally regarded as a “resource curse”; a phenomenon, which the free encyclopedia defines as a…
Nigeria And The Question, ‘Wetin Cause Am’?
“…The hungry child with stomach ache is busy pointing at his head and complaining of headache”. Local adage ‘Wetin’ is…
The Curse of Power
This is a grim and depressing essay and the subject matter is painful to digest. I take no pleasure in…
Editorial: Stella Oduah Trapped by Moral Questions
To a man with a hammer, Mark Twain once said, everything looks like a nail. One hammer that has been…
Andrew Azazi, Yushab Shuaib, Festus Odimegwu & the Rest of Us
The inquiry of truth, which is the love-making, or wooing of it, the knowledge of truth, which is the presence…
APC: Gov. Amaechi, Mrs. Jonathan and the Love of Power
English poet, essayist, critic, 1793, Anna Barbauld was it who said that when we carry our eyes back through the…
Editorial: APC and the G-7 Governors
The claim last Friday, by former military ruler and APC chieftain, Gen. Muhammadu Buhari, that the seven discontented PDP governors,…