IT is imperative we begin to address our minds to issues that undermine our well-being given that today fraud is evident at almost every office you go to for one reason or the other. Indeed, one wonders if there is any government establishment that is devoid of corruption.

It is a season of votes once again. It is a season of making decisions to reject poverty in all its ramifications. It is a season to inject in ourselves another consciousness of development akin to what obtains in other climes.

Every girl makes mistakes with money at some point in time: not planning adequately, not saving enough, spending recklessly on something frivolous e.t.c. Unfortunately, some Nigerian girls seem to be eternally stuck in the miry clay of certain money mistakes and are not even aware of how these financial pitfalls are significantly derailing their finances.

There is so much misinformation in Nigeria today and I really can not understand how the media which was like a Rottweiler under former President Goodluck Jonathan has suddenly turned into a chihuahua. What is going on? A lot of Nigerian journalists have reduced themselves to generators of excuses for President Muhammadu Buhari and I am concerned for the fourth estate of the realm. Really concerned!

Bearing in mind the volatile nature of the Niger Delta region, President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration has started toeing a new path to address the myriad of problems there.

Various sociologists, political scientists, anthropologists and social historians have attempted to stratify society into a set of hierarchical social categories or classes. They have attempted rather unsuccessfully to agree on the appropriate classes but the most common remain the upper, middle and lower classes.

The world’s second richest pastor commented on Thursday, July 7 that “the era of private universities – championed by the church – came to set standards and right moral codes in our educational system to make it thrive better, devoid of cultism and activism” as reported by Vanguard. However, this statement can also be interpreted to mean that this is another way the Nigerian rich class wants to criminalise activism and deprive the next generation of their right to independent thinking.

By Braimoh Bello It was the morning of yesterday and I felt like having boiled yam and fried egg for breakfast at the hotel restaurant I was staying in Benin City. As I entered, I noticed that the usually-warm waitress was a little pensive and borderline unhappy. I tried to cheer her up, asking her […]

The word “strong” in the body of a piece written by a certain Governor Adams Oshiomhole’s social media activist, lauding the governor’s achievements tickled my curiousity.

Violence begets nothing but violence and peaceful dialogue is the only way to appease a people that have been maligned, cheated and wounded. A word is enough for the wise.