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.

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.

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 […]

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; […]

EXACTLY two days time, we shall be celebrating another independence day, a day that we have always looked forward to with nostalgia; with reminisces, of hopes built and dashed, of good and bad. We remember the celebrations, the military parades and Air Force displays, the merriments and parties, the sober and the drunk, and then […]