By Oludayo Tade In the sociology of death and dying, only  those around when death knocks can imagine the pain, the struggle and desire of the deceased to stay alive. “I’m in the train. I have been shot. Please pray for me”, was the last public message by the late Dr. Chinelo Megafu, a young […]

By Ejike Anyaduba IT may be fair to argue that but for little acts of charity the world might have become an uninhabitable place to live. With growing army of poor people and the destitute of living, daily buffeted by unremitting malice of fortune, charity is not just necessary, but imperative in weaving a thread of […]

By Kenechukwu Obiezu In climes cracked by dysfunction and areas ripped apart by anomalies, words usually acquire new, twisted meanings, even as deep-running and defining games altogether come to be tainted with brushes that do not exactly flatter, mostly in service of extraordinary guile, gullibility or even blistering hypocrisy. Many Nigerians are convinced that politics […]

By Eric Teniola This is the concluding part of this piece which last week revealed why Obasanjo declined to head the ING set up by IBB but urged Gen Yar’Adua to resist Abacha’s membership of the interim government YAR’ADUA reluctantly agreed to Abacha’s retention as he did not want to give Babangida a pretext to remain […]

By Louis Odion ‘YES, next?” “Sir, the next person on the list,” continued the Senior Special Assistant on Protocols in Edo Government House testily, “is the widow you met sometime ago while on project inspection and you said we should include her name among those to be paid monthly from the money you gave us to […]