Category: OPINION

By Dons Eze The Pope’s word is like a decree, a law, unalterable. In the Catholic Church, they say that the “Pope is infallible”. In other words, that the Pope, while sitting on his Chair, cannot make a mistake. As Vicar, or representative of Christ on earth, the Second Person of the Trinitarian God, the Pope would thus be speaking the word of God. For long, there was anxiety over what is the stand of Pope Francis, head of the Catholic Church, on same sex marriage that is gaining currency…

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By Ikechukwu Amaechi Last week, my friend and former colleague, Oguwike Nwachuku, responded to my article penultimate Thursday titled, “Uzodimma: The governor as a quisling.” Typically, Oguwike, media aide to Governor Hope Uzodimma, attacked my person, making baseless claims on what he described as my political affiliations, motive for my writings and presumed hatred for President Muhammadu Buhari and the All Progressives Congress (APC). I will come back to these infantile insinuations shortly. But first things first. He called me “one Ikechukwu Amaechi.” That is too childish and a gross…

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By Oguwike Nwachuku In the build-up to the March 9, 2019 governorship election in Imo State, I wrote a widely circulated piece in the traditional national and online newspapers tagged, Uche Nwosu: The last vestiges of Okorocha’s iberiberism. On Thursday, February 25, 2021, the Managing Director of one of the National newspapers, an urbane, intelligent, and God-fearing young man, jocularly reminded me that the article is most apt today given the drama that former Governor Rochas Okorocha, now a Senator, has become the lead actor in Imo State. In the…

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By Bisi Kazeem Thirty-three years ago, precisely on February 18, 1988, the Federal Government of Nigeria established the Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) as the nation’s lead agency saddled with the responsibilities of identifying the causes of road traffic crashes and proffering appropriate solutions to the menace that had placed the country in the position of the second most hazardous nations in Africa to drive motor vehicles in. With its lead agency status, FRSC was set as an institution to make effective use of instruments of education, science and technology…

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By Tunji Adegbite Late Steve Jobs, former CEO and founder of Apple “Every successful individual has failed numerous times. Most of them have failed a lot more often than we have” – Steve Jobs, Founder/former CEO, Apple. Every successful person has experienced failure, yet society continues to condition us to avoid failure. Survivorship bias distorts our understanding of success by disproportionately focusing on only success stories that defied enormous odds, sometimes glossing over even their failures. Rather than embrace the opportunities it presents, failure is generally regarded as a sign…

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By Basil Okoh We Didn’t really know how insignificant and vulnerable the Northern economy is until they declared a food supply boycott to Southern Nigeria. Supplies of onions, pepper, tomatoes and cow beef were the only products on offer in the much-hyped boycott. And people ask, is this all there really is to the much pumped-up food dependence of Southern Nigeria to the North. Just vegetables and meat are all the North has to offer the South as food and on which their entire trade with the South depend? Not…

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By Sunny Igboanugo The men made their campbeds in the large community football field, a substantial part that had been converted to an emergency farm. They spread their mats, tarpaulins, clothes or any other sorts of sleeping materials. That is where they would sleep till the next morning. The women and children had taken the various classrooms in the only primary school, carved them in small, tiny portions for each family. This had been the situation for the past years now. Suddenly, a shrill cry pierced the night. Everybody ran…

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By Dike Chukwumerije A broken road does not understand Igbo It will not maim the Fulani and let the rest of us go The accidents it will cause will take all lives For when a vehicle somersaults it breaks all bones So, you can speak Nupe till morning comes It will not build libraries in our public schools And when a woman, a young woman, lies dying in childbirth Your fluency in Ijaw will not save her life For Christian or Muslim, it makes no difference When you’re being driven…

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By Obinna Okoro One day, I was on a business trip to Bauchi and a friend asked me to make out a time and inspect a facility that will blow my mind. He took me to Bauchi Meat Products Company Limited. This facility has installed capacity to process over 1500 cows per day into different products. The bone marrow extraction unit has capacity to supply the pharmaceutical industry with critical raw material for syrups production, the hides and skin section can feed the leather industry while the pooh-pooh can be…

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