Nigeria is at a crisis point and sleep walking into a mental ill health epidemic and the government has to provide a programme to prevent further loss of promising young lives

By Rose Moses Grief and pain best define the feeling one goes through each time stories on rape of minors by men old enough to be their grandfathers are reported. Worst still is that such stories are not in short supply these days. Indeed, cases of rape and child defilement have been gaining frightening dimensions […]

By Emeka Obasi Military strategists must devote quite some time to study Lt. General Theophilus Yakubu Danjuma. There is something about this man that needs to be thrown up in the annals of leadership and power struggle. He did not rise to the rank of a Four-Star general yet he towers above some Heads of […]

I was invited into a mentor’s bedroom a couple of weeks ago. It was as I expected it. There were shelves of books within easy reach of the bed and the writing table. The old me would have made a beehive for the book shelves and would have emerged with a couple of books that could occupy me for a week or two.

Nothing baffles the public anymore. A senator accused the Inspector General of Police of corruption. He painted a picture of money for postings and promotion. No one felt enough repugnance to demand an inquiry.  Zero tolerance for corruption is a mere slogan. He announced that the police hierarchy leases policemen to companies and individuals and feeds on the returns.