Author: Ochiabuto Kalu Okorie

The Gay Rights Law: Pleasing the Ungodly to Disple

Saturday, July 27, 2013
There is a new wave of unwarranted and unjustifiable madness, even outright impunity that is spreading like wildfire nowadays around the world. That madness, for that is what it actually is, began in The Netherlands in April 2001, and it has so far spread to Belgium, Spain, Canada, South Africa, ...

NIGERIA: A NATION OF ABSURDITIES

Saturday, July 27, 2013
Nigeria is no doubt a nation of absurdities. The word absurdity is the noun form of the root word absurd which is an adjective. The Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary of Current English by A.S. Hornby, 7th Edition defines the word absurd as completely ridiculous; not logical and sensible. ...

MR. PRESIDENT, IS THIS THE BREATH OF FRESH AIR THAT YOU PROMISED NIGERIANS?

Sunday, May 20, 2012
This question Mr. President, is this the breath of fresh air that you promised Nigerians? is quite pertinent in view of many strange events which have been happening in the Nigerian polity ever since the April 2011 elections in which Dr. Goodluck Jonathan was elected the President of the country. ...

UNMASKING THE ENEMIES OF OUR NATIONAL SECURITY

Friday, May 18, 2012
For quite some time, our nation has been bedevilled by a very high level of insecurity, in the magnitude that has never been experienced at peace time throughout her chequered history. The dreaded Islamic sect, Boko Haram has been fingered; not only that, the group has accepted responsibility, fo ...

MAKING THE DIFFERENCE REALLY CLEAR IN ABIA STATE

Wednesday, May 16, 2012
In the exclusive interview that the Governor of Abia State, Chief Dr. T.A. Orji granted to the Daily Independent newspaper, and recently featured in the Newsbearer Weekly magazine, he answered inter alia in response to the question: Comparing your first tenure with today, would you say that thi ...

BEYOND THE ELECTION OF THE NEW PRESIDENT OF THE WORLD BANK: MATTERS ARISING

Monday, May 7, 2012
The election of the President of the World Bank has been held, but the ripples generated by the choice of the winner of that election is still reverberating across the globe. Originally, there were three contenders for the post namely Dr. Jim Yong Kim, a Korean-American who was nominated by Pres ...