IN Matthew Holden’s(JR.), The White Man’s Burden, he addressed a question asked by St. Clair Drake, a Black American of West Indian background, an Africanist, urban sociology and anthropologist, the author of the tome titled Black Metropolis: “Why is not the United States more like South Africa”.

”It matters not who the voter, what does matter is who counts the votes”-Russian Dictator Joseph Stalin.
”As far as we know there is one state in Africa that never had one king for all.

I believe it was in this column I wrote last week that I do not envy the Nigeria Football Federation ( NFF ), one bit. To lend credence to my fear, the President of the body is reported to have said that the Federation had to bow to the yearnings of Nigerians in choosing a foreign technical adviser for the Super Eagles World Cup campaign. I hope that statement, (if he said it,) will just end there, because no Nigerian will be held responsible if the coach they bring, fails to deliver.

By Ochereome Nnanna WITH a lady like Professor Dora Akunyili, there is no dull moment. It is either hot or cold, but mostly hot. She is an interesting personality and public figure to watch. People are either mostly good or mostly bad. But in the case of Dora Akunyili, she is mostly good and sometimes […]

In other words, bank could now keep only 2% of their assets as cash! Serious analysts would consider such accommodation as patently reckless and skating on thin ice, especially in a country with a heavily cash dependent economy; liquidity ratio of banks was similarly inappropriately reduced from 40%… to 25% and government treasury bills holdings were also admitted as a component of liquidity ratio.

There are many things that are automatic for most people. We take everything for granted: we breathe, eat , walk and go about our everyday lives like it’s the norm, like nothing we do is special.

The world with the greatest excess of good over evil is the best. God could have created a world in which evil is non-existent,but it would not have been as good as the actual world. The teleological aspect of Leibniz’s theory is that God has a purpose for creating the real world: to establish the best of all possible worlds.

“I’ve already told my boyfriend what present I would like for this year’s Valentine, and where I would like to be taken to,” said Miss A. “Last year he only gave me a card and couldn’t even take me out to an eatery. If he doesn’t give me something worthwhile this year, I’m going to leave him. It’s not as if he doesn’t work and earn good money. I like him but he’s so mean about presents and money. How can a man give his girlfriend only a card for Valentine’s day?”

Tension is less in the land now that Dr. Goodluck Jonathan has assumed office as Acting President. That is after 78 days when the simple procedure that would have led us to that position had been ignored. And what did we do? It seemed as if we dreamt that if we failed to do something, just anything, by the end of the 78th day of the President’s absence from office and out of sight, something would give.

THE tradition of intellectual inquiry in Nigeria, in at least, the last 30 years has been at best self-indulgent and unadventurous.