Monday, May 20th, 2013
By Dan Amor, 081 5180 8817 (sms only pls) danamor67@yahoo.com Amidst the torrent of tributes and acclamations that heralded the transition of Professor Chinua Achebe to higher glory, some hacks or literary kill-joys still found space to circulate that Achebe’s style of writing and literary philosophy...
Monday, May 13th, 2013
By Dan Amor, 081 5180 8817 (sms only pls) danamor67@yahoo.com It was a delectable spectacle as a multitude of compatriots and citizens of Imo State converged on the multi-thousand capacity Heroes Square in the ancient City of Owerri, the Igbo heartland to fraternize and celebrate...
Monday, May 6th, 2013
By Dan Amor , 081 5180 8817 (sms only pls) danamor67@yahoo.com Another term for “authority abuse” is “toxic leadership”. This ugly phenomenon exists when leaders put themselves first and try to glorify themselves rather than God who put them in that position of leadership...
Monday, April 29th, 2013
By Dan Amor, 081 5180 8817 (sms only pls) danamor67@yahoo.com Before the advent of the present dispensation, Nigeria was literally run by buccaneers who plundered the nation’s till into private use and built empires over the painful anxieties of the people. Upon assumption of office the...
Monday, April 15th, 2013
By Dan Amor SMS: 081 5180 8817 (sms only pls) Email: danamor67@yahoo.com It sounds very much like an apocryphal tale. But it is true that the joke is once again on the Nigerian society. What I am saying is that Nigeria is constantly losing batches of...
Monday, April 8th, 2013
By Dan Amor, Email: danamor67@yahoo.com Nigerians have, indeed, had more than their fair share of tragedies in recent times. Of late, stories of isolated acts of uncontrolled lawlessness and violence abound in the country. Like a scripted drama rolled out of the make-belief world of science...
Monday, March 18th, 2013
By Dan Amor, 081 5180 8817 (sms only pls) danamor67@yahoo.com It is a matter of deep regret and embarrassment to the society at large that Nigeria’s tertiary institutions have remained theatres of the absurd – a killing field of the most bestial type –...
Monday, March 4th, 2013
By Dan Amor , 081 5180 8817 (sms only pls)danamor67@yahoo.com The wicked and most callous demolition of the multi-billion naira Dim Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu Library and Monument in Owerri recently by unknown assailants must be condemned by all well-meaning Nigerians. No nation among the...
Monday, February 25th, 2013
By Dan Amor 081 5180 8817 (sms only pls) danamor67@yahoo.com The recent statement credited to the Hon. Minister of Information, Mr. Labaran Maku that Cross River State is quietly transforming into a new industrial hub of the West African sub-region having attracted several Euro-American...
Monday, February 18th, 2013
By Dan Amor, 081 5180 8817 (sms only pls) danamor67@yahoo.com That the party system has failed in Nigeria is no longer news. What is paramount is the fact that if nothing is done to alleviate the situation, this democracy will collapse again. Yet, without a...
Monday, February 11th, 2013
By Dan Amor , 081 5180 8817 (sms only pls) danamor67@yahoo.com Out of the abundance of the heart, the mouth speaketh. So goes the biblical saying. And so, it is possible to draw a cognate analogy between these celebrated landmark speeches of Obong Godswill...
Monday, February 4th, 2013
By Dan Amor , 081 5180 8817 (sms only pls) danamor67@yahoo.com When the Union Jack (the British flag) was, at the glittering mews of the Tafawa Balewa Square, Lagos on October 1, 1960, lowered for a free Nigeria’s green-white-green flag, gloriously fluttered in the...
Monday, January 21st, 2013
By Dan Amor, 081 5180 8817 (sms only pls) danamor67@yahoo.com A few years back, on Wednesday July 7, 2010, to be precise, on the occasion of the public presentation of his book: Colonialism in Africa: Ancient and Modern, published in two volumes, Ben Nwabueze, erudite scholar...
Monday, January 14th, 2013
By Dan Amor , 0802 359 7734 (sms only pls)danamor67@yahoo.com In an apparently naïve fashion, this is a fable about the cat, the weasel and the little rabbit. If you are a modern day spectator of the current political drama in our country, then this...
Monday, January 7th, 2013
By Dan Amor , 0802 359 7734 (sms only pls)danamor67@yahoo.com Like the dawning of a new day, 2015, another election year is around the corner. Yet what appears upsetting is the reality that, much as the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has been vilified as...
