Human beings in contemporary societies, like no other period in history, are so preoccupied with the rat race for material comfort that they tend to forget those simple things that make human life humane.

No show is a term used by the airline industry to describe a passenger who has booked and paid for a flight but just didn’t show up. Airlines tend to come down heavily on such passengers and charge a penalty fee or even refuse to rebook and refund such fares!

Our problem in this country is that the men think they know it all, and are more qualified to rule than the women are,” declared Mrs. Z. at a recent seminar organised to encourage women to take more active part in politics.

Just last Friday, on my way back to the United States, I had called the Minister of Information, Mr. Labaran Maku, to congratulate him on certain aspects of this government’s programme to which he is associated. I had, in fact, assured him of my willingness to help further the cause of this particular project if in the future he needed volunteers.

For a number of reasons, not a few Nigerians look forward to free and fair elections come April. First, there is public faith in the umpire — the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC)-a body of persons of proven integrity led by Professor Attahiru Jega, a man generally believed to be fearless and forthright.

The name of my village is Agu-Obu Owa in Ezeagu Local Government Area of Enugu State.It is a quiet, very local and peaceful village that boasts of all the attributes of nature but has suffered in the hands of all governments that have existed since the time of state creations.

BECAUSE of the way we do things at Vanguard, my Sweet And Sour reflections have to be submitted for publication on Wednesdays. Which means that even though this week’s column will appear the day after the PDP has conducted its presidential primary election, it is being written the day before this big event.

A WOMAN in Texas, United States (US)and her male companion were in November 1979 robbed by two Black men. A month later, Cornelius Dupree Jr, a 21-year old Black man was arrested because to the police his description fitted that of a suspect in another rape case.

AS expected, the aim of any nation is to be great through political and economic developments. Thus the goal of balanced development has been the inordinate ambition of all leaders of many developing (poor) countries after obtaining freedom from colonialism. Nigeria is not an exception to the vision of greatness which today has become an illusion.

UCHE Okafor is one of those fellows you never knew when you met him. Could it be during his days at ACB Football Club. He was quiet, self-effacing and good at his game, yet he appeared at a point stars filled the Nigerian firmament. I have nudged myself a couple of times since the news of her demise, particularly the circumstances of it.

Fortuitously and unfortuitously, developments in the boxing establishment compel some of us to subject ourselves to deep, serious interrogation, as to the core essence of the sport in today’s world.

WHEN will our hearts stop bleeding for Africa? Where is the big pot that is calling the kettle black? The other day, a friend of ours in Ivory Coast overheard Laurent Gbagbo complaining to another friend in Gold Coast that he was already planning to step aside peacefully when he suddenly noticed that the loudest voices on his plight were from the Oil Coast and they were a lot guiltier than him.

IN this season of politics and bountiful harvests, many political giants are becoming political orphans who are in need of shelter. Better put, they are becoming political nomads wandering the landscape in search of better pastures.

THERE is no doubt that the political career of former president, Olusegun Obasanjo, has been one of the longest and most successful in Nigeria. Right from when he first entered national consciousness as the soldier who received the instrument of surrender from the defeated Biafran forces at the end of Nigeria’s Civil War, his rise within the polity has never waned.

BY every measure of publicized and institutional Abrahamic religiosity, Africa stands out and Nigeria is a leader. This
is one face of Africa and Nigeria, its professed religiosity. The other face is corruption a result of power unrestrained by conscience and fear of God. How can this be? The question is itself its answer.