Righteousness in the saying is easy, it’s no better than bragging, everyone does it. Righteousness in the doing however is a tad more complicated and requires us to commit to doing all that we say and lay claim to believing all the time.

By OBI NWAKANMA Readers of the “Orbit” may have noticed the absence of this column in the last month. Well, I have to occasionally be on a break from this column and from the affairs of the world, whose enormity sometimes can overwhelm even the most practical and sanest of men. The columnist sometimes has […]

A former colleague was already well into her 30s, while her husband was just shy of 40 years, when they got married. Feeling that the biological clock was ticking away, she set about starting a family immediately. But the much-wanted pregnancy would not come.

I was gobsmacked when I learnt that the PDP governors together with the party’s NEC had unanimously endorsed President Goodluck Jonathan for the second term. Some two short years ago, several Northern governors were grandstanding as they raised several—mainly self-serving reasons—Jonathan should not re-contest.

Mr Imeh Usuah, a heroically honest taxi driver who returned N18 million that was left in his cab by a foreigner; Mr Onuh Isaac Michael, the diligent Chief Steward at the Presidential Villa, who has served nine Heads of State; Corporal Solomon Dauda, a dancing Abuja traffic warden who approaches his duties with a cheerful dedication that puts smiles on the faces of the motorists he entertains; and Mr Taiwo Akinkunmi, an elderly gent who designed our flag.