Gowon’s memoirs: Nigeria owes Awolowo an eternal debt, by Olu Fasan
Last week, I started a discussion of General Yakubu Gowon’s multi-themed memoirs, My Life of Duty & Allegiance. My focus was on the book’s general tone, which I find unduly self-justificatory. In his attempts to defend his legacy, General Gowon presents himself as a saintly figure who did no wrong as a leader, whereas some […]
Electricity in Nigeria: A disturbing dimension
Each time Nigerians grumble over the failure of successive governments to provide them with electricity, government officials are quick at pointing out that Nigerians are impatient adding that ours is a nation seeking to enjoy within a few years in existence what the developed countries got after hundreds of years.
On one Nigeria
Dr. Jacob “Yakubu” Gowon was celebrating his 78th birthday on October 19. Reporters cornered him, and asked him for a comment on Nigeria.
Re: Nigeria @ 52
It’s sad to note that at 52, we’re still at the crawling stage of life. It wasn’t those who wrote in here to react to my piece on the matter who feel this way, but pieces published in other Nigerian newspapers and magazines reflected this too.
My passion lies in adding healthy value to people’s well-being – Bisi Bright
Mrs. Bisi Bright is a Social Entrepreneur in the Health Sector; a qualified Consultant Clinical Pharmacist and Public Health Practitioner, adding value to the ‘social space’ through the nonprofit organisation, LiveWell Initiative (LWI), a health empowerment organisation which has outreached over 1 million Nigerians and at least 3,000 Ghanians with free health over the past 3 years.
The case for atheism (5)
Compared to all these, together with the technological innovations and possibilities embedded in contemporary science, the God of religion appears vanishingly small and insignificant. It is incorrect to say that science deprives us the sense of mystery which we ought to feel about the universe.
