Motherhood & the Wellness of the Mother
By Tochi Okafor I recently had a conversation with a woman that stayed with me. She told me about a night when she turned to her husband and said she could not keep nursing the baby until dawn. She needed sleep. Real sleep. She simply wasn’t feeling like herself. He stepped in that night, and, […]
Ministerial list: For Ndigbo, it’s thanksgiving all the way
SINCE President Muhammadu Buhari, PMB came to power, people have argued that Ndigbo should be punished for not voting massively for him. Some say it was a political miscalculation by the Igbos, that they put all their eggs in the basket of former President Goodluck Jonathan, they are politically naïve, and all that. Such people do not understand where Igbos are coming from. Igbos are very grateful to God for the turnout of events, because if it were not so, they would have been the victims of post elections violence in the north. Igbos have investments in almost every nook and corner of Nigeria, which would have been torched. Ndigbo are the ones who need a peaceful Nigeria more than any other tribe, because they have more at stake in the unity and stability of Nigeria. We simply continue to thank God for Nigeria, in spite of all.
Isn’t it beautiful?
Even if it’s true that beauty is in the eyes of the beholder, I’m having a hard time figuring how beautiful we really are when the whole world is watching. Call me naive but I actually think Nigeria’s problem is religion.
In Akwa Ibom, the merriment continues
ON Wednesday 23rd September, the Akwa Ibom State government rolled out the drums to celebrate the 28th anniversary of the creation of the state in a very lavish and ostentatious event that defied logic and common sense and ran contrary to the mood of the nation.
Jesus and the criminals
FROM the cradle darkness walked upon the surface of the Niger Delta killing any splutter of fluorescence like sunrise extinguishing lamps in Soyinka’s ‘Death in the Dawn’. From 1957 and beyond the consumed fluorescence turned into a vast void, only the crude oil flowing forcibly to illuminate demarcated territories. So some criminals emerged and militarily […]
Open letter to Group MD, NNPC
SIR, I am strongly compelled by recent developments at the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), particularly the recent appointment of Dr. Babatunde Victor Adeniran as Group Executive Director, (Commercial & Investment) of NNPC, to write you. Ordinarily, in seasons such as we are today where government is in dire need of people of like minds; […]
