ONE of the reasons Africa’s growth is stunted is what I call – pardon the bombast – the fetishization of the dead. We turn the dead into so great a fetish and canonize them immediately they breathe their last. Evil men a few seconds ago...

LORD Barnard Montgomery in his canons of military leadership defined leadership as the capacity and will to rally men and women to a common purpose and the character that inspires confidence. This definition dovetails with the one furnished...

PERSEVERANCE isn’t about talent or time. It is about finishing whatever is started. Talent gives hope for the accomplishment of your ambition. But perseverance guarantees your success. Thousands of people have talent, but lack the staying power...

THE remains of Major Isaac Adaka Boro (1938-1968) were excavated from the Ikoyi cemetery last month and re-buried at Heroes Park in Yenagoa, Bayelsa State on Saturday, May 18.

At the reburial was the American civil rights leader, Reverend Jesse...

PROFESSOR Chinua Achebe had left the University of Massachusetts (UMass) about a decade before I joined the same university in 1983 as Professor and Director of the Automation and Robotics laboratory. At the time, Achebe’s reputation was still...

BY most accounts, save a few disagreeable voices of implacable opposition foes, the May 14 State of Emergency imposed by President Goodluck Jonathan on Borno, Yobe, and Adamawa states is as much a welcome development, as it is a political...

MANY who have quite rightly praised President Goodluck Jonathan’s declaration of a state of emergency in the north-eastern states of Borno, Adamawa and Yobe – strongholds of Boko Haram’s wasting war against a secular Nigeria – will be...

FORMER Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Malam Nuhu Ribadu has been one of the most trenchant critics of the presidential pardon granted recently to erstwhile Bayelsa State Governor, Chief Diepreye Alamieyeseigha...

WITH each passing day, one finds reason to question whether or not Nigeria is on the brink of a civil war and in need of a declaration of a state of emergency in the whole country, not just a few states. The number of violent deaths recorded...

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THIS explains a number of things. Certainly it explains his present reclusive nature. And now, expanding on that, he makes a shocking revelation, that he was born with a natural disability: “I was the only child of my...

SO powerful and attractive, and yet so elastic and abused is the concept of democracy that it can be used, and has been used or invoked, as an organizing principle for any critique or defence or articulation of any sociopolitical movement...

THE term Social Media is mentioned in reference to online networking platforms as Facebook, Twitter, Blogs, Google+, Instagram, LinkedIn, Keek, Pinterest and a hundred or so others too numerous to mention. These websites are largely used for...