Opinion

Nkeiruka Ezekh,  black Russian  of Igbo-Nigerian heritage is participating and representing her country Russia, the host of 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi. She will be participating in the Curling competition at Winter Olympics. This is not the first time Nkeiruka...

I plead with Nigerians East, West, North, South and Nigerians in Diaspora not to ignore the emergence of APC as one of those antics of politicians to set up a platform to grab power for themselves, the families, cronies...

When I wrote an article titled Failed Government or Failing Citizens in January 2013, I expected a reverberation of mixed comments. I was not disappointed. In that piece, I attempted to challenge the belief system that makes us channel...

Despicable rhetoric and the phony arrest of outlawed leader of Niger Delta People’s Volunteer Force (NDPVF) Mujahid Asari Dokubo made headlines this past two weeks. But one would have to be a retarded monkey to take his endless histrionics...

For his four-country trip to the Sahel in November, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon adopted as his motto an African saying: “One hand cannot tie a bundle.” His guests agreed. On a breezy Monday night last November, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon...

The Internet and the use of ICT has become an integral part of everyday life. In fact, to deny children of mobile phones, ipads or their laptops would appear to them as some sort of cruel and unusual punishment! According...

The adage that says “to have a negotiating position, you must have something to give up” may not be apt in the case of the factions in the Ugborodo crisis in Delta State. There are indications that the two factions...

An unbiased examination of the 2014 budget proposal presently under consideration of the National Assembly will reveal that it is not doomed after all, as those opposing it would have us believe. From all indications, the budget has a...

The effort being made all over the world by governments and multinational corporations to end the dominance of oil as the main source of energy is a wake-up call to states whose economies largely depend on oil.  While countries,...

A few months ago, the federal government of Nigeria privatized major assets of the nations Power Holding Company of Nigeria, PHCN. Sold or rather, gifted to the cabal at 404 billion naira, the government had just refurbished the assets...