In June 1990, the then military government awarded the contract for the dualisation of the Benin to Effurun road to Daewoo E and C Nigeria Limited. The 149.1 kilometer road was completed in December 1992. It was one of the best roads in Nigeria then. The road was so good that a journey from Effurun/ […]

The world has never been short of demagogues and fools, but the remedies have often matched the supply. In 1990, during President Nelson Mandela’s thank-you tour of the world, he was asked at the City College of New York, Harlem, NY., why he remained friends with Muammar Gaddafi, Yasser Arafat, and Fidel Castro. He replied that […]

APOLOGY Please bear with me. The past couple of weeks have been really tough for all sorts of personal and professional reasons. I didn’t write this column last week and can’t write anything this week. So let me please leave you in the highly capable hands of my uncle, Jonas Odocha, who recently penned this […]

TODAY’s edition is the second instalment of the conversation with the above headline. I assert again that our country is currently witnessing a barbarian invasion. As a student of strategic intelligence, I construe a barbarian invasion as a siege laid to a people or group of peoples with distinct, thriving cultures in their territory by armed bands […]

I was in my early teens when I came across the slim novel, Weep Not, Child, by the then James Ngugi. Actually, the novel laid around as it was part of the school syllabus in senior secondary school, and the seniors read it. I found it simple, easy to digest, but most importantly, I identified with […]