The heft of helplessness
Helplessness is a lived reality for many across the globe, but it is particularly acute in Nigeria, where economic decay and insecurity have become its primary expressions.
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Demand for accountability and full enforcement of Nigeria’s solid minerals mining laws
The solid minerals sector remains one of Nigeria’s most underperforming assets not because of lack of potential, but because citizens have not seen the political will required to translate laws into real institutional results.
NYSC: time to rest it. (concluding part)
While the bomb was killing at the INEC office, a jihadi mob heartlessly locked approximately 50 Corps members inside the Nigerian Christian Corpers Fellowship (NCCF) building and set it on fire. While most managed to escape, losing all their belongings and sustaining injuries, others were roasted. What did the Christian corps members do to attract such insane viciousness?
I Ain’t Got No Regrets
A defining feature of urban life is publicly provided energy. It powers commerce, creates employment, and drives the economy. Yet, here I am, living in the capital of an oil-producing state that has boasted a power plant for two decades, living in perpetual darkness.
When silence is suicidal
he Nigerian security apparatus, especially the military, cleansed of sectarian and political pollution, is capable of ending the violence in the land in less than a year. Our soldiers, in spite of fifthcolumnists, have the capacity to do that.
The Power of Government
The power of government is not for the state to intimidate peace- loving entities and deprive them of their rights, because the power of government is meant to protect the citizens from harm rather than oppress them with an assumed ‘force of nature’ such as rain, wind and fire or the force of Satan.
Armed Forces Remembrance Day
In spite of the sacrifices our soldiers, there are those who would rather want them maimed and killed and their killers rewarded by government. One of such persons is Sheikh Ahmed Gumi.
Just when decent dressing was….
Young, beautiful ladies are rising up to speak for decent dressing even when mega-pastors are looking at the money bags and trays.
Armed Forces Remembrance Day & The Enemy Within
ShareShareTweetPin0 Shares Editorial Armed Forces Remembrance Day & The Enemy Within Another Remembrance Day for our men and women under arms is here. Nigeria celebrates the Day on 15 January every year. The date replaces the Armistice or Poppy Day which used to be celebrated on every 11 November when the country was under British…
The love of God
ShareShareTweetPin0 SharesBy Prof. Des Wilson “If we say we love God, but hate others, we are liars. For we cannot love God, whom we have not seen, if we do not love others, whom we have seen.” (1 John 4:19-20, The Catholic Rainbow Study Bible.) Love has been the theme of various homilies, songs, poems, prose…