The Amaechi I Know...and The Cynicism Of His TraduMonday, August 10, 2015
Politicians are to play politics the way magical tricks are expected of magicians. But while the roles and nature of a magician is precisely defined, a politician 39;s remains perjoratively obscure. It is tragic that, nowadays, even universally, a politician is almost a euphemistic verb for a sugar ...
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REMINISCING YENAGOASunday, May 6, 2012
The moods Like a human, Yenagoa had moods. It had a soul, a body that required intelligence to comprehend. During her extrovert days the entire town would be bursting in a carnival of sorts. So much colours, fancy cars, night clubs and parties ready to rock into infinity. There is always a n ... |
MARY SLESSOR: 97 YEARS AFTERFriday, April 13, 2012
Itu was on a hill, bordered by an endless ocean of forest. Driving in from Oron or Uyo, you first see the fabled hills with a coating of emerald grasses climbing to the tip. You see the small houses sitted precariously at the slanty sides, as if ready to fall off the edge. Then, everything changes w ... |
JOHN IDUMANGE: THE ENGINE OF RESTORATIONThursday, April 5, 2012
Go to the popular Swali market and ask a handful of Bayelsan passerbye's, you most certainly will learn that if Bayelsans needed anything then that was change. Change is the oil that lubricates the wheels of civilization and a nation is bound to stagnate, even flounder if it keeps on sticking to tes ... |
THE NIGERIAN DREAMSunday, March 25, 2012
As part of my job as the public affairs officer of Youths for Human rights international, Nigeria, I had to visit Koloama, a little ijaw village just before the atlantic ocean devastated by the recent explosion of shell's facility in the region Koloama had no linking roads so the only means of ... |