By Okoh Aihe There was suppressed excitement across the land last week. The country’s economy dealt a massive blow into depression by COVID-19 suddenly witnessed a renaissance, a stirring out of that dazed stupor into someplace under the sun, making some of us learn how to smile again. The news was so sudden that some […]

By Okoh Aihe NIGERIA is not starved of good people to do us proud. On Monday, Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala demonstrated this in making history as the first African and first woman ever to become the Director-General of the World Trade Organisation, WTO, to global acclaim. Her first virtual press conference espoused the qualities for which […]

Great stories make great content on television, big screen, or even mobile terminals. Those who say content is king love good stories, the sort that spikes the adrenalin, make it impossible to put down a book or hook you permanently on the screen, large or small, and sometimes become very redeeming in challenging you to […]

Some little acts of benevolence are worth celebrating. At least from a government with the supercilious reasoning that if some relief in governance appears remotely on the horizon, the people need to lead an obsequious epiphany to the shrine of political patronage at the centre. That, by the way, is my little acknowledgment that the […]

There is a total lack of shame when the puissant political opportunists who superintend our lives claim credit for every minuscule strand of progress, appropriate credit for everything but the ugly. Soon and very soon they will claim credit for the rising and the setting of the sun except that such foolhardiness will attract the […]