Opinion Corner

By Dr. Ehiogie West-Idahosa   Let me start by stating that political parties in Nigeria have no perceptible ideological divide. I expressed my views on this in a previous piece on platform mobility. The political parties exist in fulfillment of constitutional requirement as the only organ that can sponsor candidates for elections in Nigeria. They are barely able to control …

By Dr. Ehiogie West-Idahosa Nigeria’s independence was not the product of any tough or ideological struggle. It came as a result of Britain’s political decision to let a number of countries off the hook following the popular crave for independence at that time. Nigeria happened to be one of them. There were no strong ideologies like the type that existed …

Zimbabwe’s new president is not, at first glance, the obvious champion of the change his country hungers for. Emmerson Mnangagwa is 75, and for decades he was righthand man to Robert Mugabe, accused of the same human rights abuses and similar corruption. He is widely known as “the Crocodile”, a liberation war nickname that may have stuck because it suited …

Governor Rochas Okorocha of Imo has described the late former Vice President, Alex Ekwueme as an epitome of a detribalised Nigerian. Ekwueme, 85, died on Sunday in a London hospital after a brief illness, according to a statement, signed by his younger brother, Igwe Laz Ekwueme, a musicologist. Okorocha, in a statement by his Chief Press Secretary, Mr. Sam Onwuemedo, …

It may interest you to know that since 1995, small businesses in America usually generate as much as 64% of the new jobs in the United States, and have been responsible for the payment of 44% of the total US private payroll, according to the Small Businesses America, SBA. If those in authority are really committed to bringing the desired …

The events of the last week revolving around the outbreak of monkeypox should make us sober. Logic was turned on its head, and common sense took a dive into the bushes. A whole region was gripped in a mass hysteria that was almost apocalyptic in scope. The atmosphere is reminiscent of wartime – when confusion and lawlessness usually create a …

Last week, the Nigerian Senate dramatized its reckless impunity of misgovernment at a time reflective governance and moral sobriety are required to douse the tensed political space and barefaced looting that have been elevated to a grand act in the Nation Assembly. It told Nigerians, through its spokesman and Chairman, Senate Committee on Media and Public Affairs, Senator Aliyu Abdullahi …

THE HOMICIDAL RYTHM OF THE PYTHON DANCE On the 15th September 2016, one year ago today, I wrote the following. “You bathed in the blood of Biafrans, you crushed their bones and stripped away their dignity and self-respect just to keep Nigeria one. Now you say their children have no right to ask for self-determination simply because you killed their …

In a clime where pensioners are not paid as at when due, civil servants are often owed their basic salaries, teachers have become laughing stocks and unemployment has skyrocketed, it is easy to abandon time-tested positive behaviorism and embrace sheer survival tactics. Therefore, the need to re-organize landlords associations, street meetings, age groups and other community structures upon reawakened moral …

For the most part of my life, I have never experienced power ever run uninterrupted for 24 hours except maybe when abroad. And here therefore, we rely on power generators as instruments of self-help and an as metaphors of comparative betterment. But increasingly, the noise irritates and annoys, and worse of all is that we use diesel power generators to …