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As my country marks another year of independence I say a prayer of hope As I flip through newspapers, switch channels and read one WhatsApp post after another Almost all bearing tales of woe and gloom …

Please, whoever has not listened to what Vice President Yemi Osinbajo had to say at the 59th Independence Gala in Abuja last week would do well to see the video on Youtube. That is the best Independence Day speech Nigerians need at a time…

There is something about archetypes. They follow a pattern. They have expected features, coloured in some expected hues and flowing in an expected course. Perhaps, that is why they are so-called; they have to fall into the mould designed…

Several years ago, an Igbo irredentist friend of mine told me about an ethnic group, which has no such thing as forgiveness in its DNA. According to him, once you have offended any dyed-in-the-wool member(s) of this group, forget it.…

In the wake of the deadly Xenophobic attacks on Nigerians in South Africa by a section of that country’s population, something unprecedented happened: A single individual, a private businessman brushed aside profit concerns and put aircraft…

I spent the whole of last week trying to see how best to capture the near-nationwide stupidity going on in South Africa. But it all ended in futility – until I stumbled on this social media quote that was wrongly attributed to Dr. Robert…

It has been thirty-three years since I borrowed a library card From a shy, handsome, gap-toothed classmate He came to my university for a degree He left with his degree and something else Three years later we walked down the aisle A…

By Chibuzo Ihegboro As Africa’s most populous country, Nigeria is currently the seventh rank in world population. If its population of 200 million people continues to grow at the current rate of 3.2 per cent each year, the country will…

Globacom, Nigeria’s first indigenous Global System for Mobile Communications (GSM) is 16, and we can say in every sense of the word that the telecoms giant has come of age. So, what has the past 16 years been like for the company and…

By Simeon Nwakaudu One of the worst challenges that Nigeria faces today is the failure of elders to act their age and serve as role models to the younger generation. This is worsened by the propensity of some persons considered elders to…