Opinion

I’m writing this piece first thing on Sunday morning, so I don’t know yet which candidate and party won – by fair or foul means – the governorship election in my home state of Anambra. But here’s what I...

Mazi Cyprian Osonduagwuike Onwubiko my dear father is in his late eighties but still reads newspapers without his reading glasses. In spite of the occasional health challenges associated with the aged, my father is one of my favourite philosophers...

Professor Chinua Achebe, the famous author of Things Fall Apart will probably not be happy in his grave today.  In twice rejecting the award of national honours in 2004 and 2011, the Nigerian literary icon said he was protesting...

Nigeria's parliamentarians and aviation stakeholders are currently enmeshed in a running battle as they seek to probe the recent purported acquisition of two bulletproof cars by the nation's Aviation Minister, Stella Oduah. The rat chase is such that it is...

When Arik Airline first began operations in Nigeria, it quickly began a household name. ‘Wings of Nigeria’ it was called. With airline services reaching different states in Nigeria. Today however, recent investigations have shown that nothing could be more...

In ageless Africa, it is said that the heart that gives love is humane, but the one that demonstrates care, is simply godly. In simple terms, our ancestors, long ago, realised that while love is desirable, care, its nobler variant,...

''Do people shape society or does society shape people?'' This is the question of the century and my answer is as follows. The sheer power of vision, creativity and strength that the human mind harbours and is capable of...

Out of curiosity, I embarked on a random search last week to find out who the most researched person globally is as at the time of my study.  Honestly when the result turned up to be the current revolutionary...

There is no question that troubles the human soul than the cold, stubborn, obtrusive, universal fact of death. Hardly a day passes which does not remind us of death. In these days of evil, death is continually intruding into...

DTHA SPEAKER, RT. HON. VICTOR OCHEI   The 2015 elections may be a year and several months away but in Delta State, the impression one gets is that the gubernatorial poll may well be holding tomorrow. While hardly anyone has publicly...