The tragedy is that these parents despite, the hardship and sacrifices they made to send their children to schools, now wish they had not done so; but they did so, that their girls can be educated and lift their whole family out of poverty

Let us do away with sound bites and the rhetoric, we need commitment and actions. We need to change our mind-set in the way that girls and women are treated in our society

Next week is the International Women’s Day and this year’s  theme is #PressforProgress. It is obvious, there is much more to do in terms of gender parity to lift Nigeria females out of poverty and lack of opportunities.

‘Everything has an end’. There is an end to everything, to good things as well.-Chaucer

Sirleaf  transformed the image of Liberia and protected free speech and freedom of association but her failure to tackle corruption in the ranks was the nail in the coffin of her Unity Party

Let us deal with the matter at hand and it’s not about giving these despicable politicos more opportunity to drain the national coffers while Nigerians are fighting one another over the hatred that they have created

Common sense is needed here and the Nigerian authorities have got to improve the integrity of our borders, protect people and property

If farmers and their crops are destroyed, it has a knock on effect on everyone: lack of crop means inadequate food or expensive food out of the reach for most Nigerians

Something is fundamentally wrong here, it does not make economic sense and its downright wasteful that this is being allowed to continue for so long and yet, again, Nigerians are suffering as a result

“The contemporary tendency in our society is to base our distribution on scarcity, which has vanished, and to compress our abundance into the overfed mouths of the middle and upper classes until they gag with superfluity. If democracy is to have breadth of meaning, it is necessary to adjust this inequity. It is not only moral, but it is also intelligent. We are wasting and degrading human life by clinging to archaic thinking.” -Martin Luther King Jr.