Essays

On Sunday 16th March 2014 a referendum will be held in the Crimea to determine whether the people of that country will stay in the Ukraine or opt to be part of the Russian Federation. This is a positive development and I have little doubt that they will vote to be part of Russia and […]

If President Olusegun Obasanjo had displayed just half the courage, firm resolve and strong determination over the Bakassi matter as President Vladimer Putin did over the Crimean crisis and Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher did over the Falkland Islands dispute, the Bakassi Peninsular and all it’s people would still have been part and parcel of Nigeria

Until you hear the Scotsman play the bagpipes in the early morning mist of the Scottish highlands, you have heard nothing. Until you hear the Irish maiden sing ”O Danny Boy” on the lush green fields of the Emerald Isle, you know nothing. Until you hear the Welshman sing ”Men of Harlech” in the beautiful

In 1926 Lord Frederick Lugard, the man who recommended the amalglamation of the northern and southern protectorates of Nigeria in 1914, who presided over Nigeria as it’s Governor-General for many years and whose lover (Flora Shaw) gave ”Nigeria” it’s name said the following about the Nigerian people.

On 26th February 2014 one Mr. Adegoroye wrote “only an insane government will be celebrating centenary while the youths, women,children and citizens are being killed daily in cold blood. Rather than mourn the dead, we want to celebrate one hundred years of a failed state ruled by a failed and cursed generation. This country (Nigeria)

”Stop telling me to pray to God for the destruction of Boko Haram. Americans did not pray to God for the destruction of terrorists, they simply conquered them with all the resources God has given them!”- DAVID KING Mr. David King has spoken the bitter but simple truth. When I said that Boko Haram should

The former Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria Mallam Sanusi Lamido Sanusi is not my favourite person and I have differences with him on many issues. I must however commend his immense courage for speaking out and exposing the monuemental corruption in the government that he once served and that has now decided that

The former Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria Mallam Sanusi Lamido Sanusi is not my favourite person and I have differences with him on many issues. I must however commend his immense courage for speaking out and exposing the monuemental corruption in the government that he once served and that has now decided that

The bible asks ”who art thou o man?” It goes on to answer it’s own question by saying ”thou art as the grass that withers. Thou art as the flower that fadeth. A man that is born of woman, that is today and that tomorrow is no more”. One would have thought that this divine

Approximately two weeks ago President Goodluck Jonathan retired a course 18 General of the Nigerian Army who was Chief of Army Staff and replaced him with a course 25 one simply because he wanted an ijaw man to head the army. By doing so he retired and destroyed the careers of no less than 50