Thursday, May 16th, 2013
Taking stock of how long we have been at the edge of developmental precipice since independence, it might be delusionary to continue to blame the leadership at all levels for the huge political and economic dwarfism that the nation continues to suffer year after year....
Thursday, May 9th, 2013
By Nnedi Ogaziechi The mob has always worn the character of irrationality. In local parlance, it’s seen as ‘ose bee’ mentality or syndrome. What this means is that the mob has never been a friend of rationality or reason. This much was aptly captured by...
Thursday, May 9th, 2013
By Nnedi Ogaziechi As we sneer at the increasing number of baby and child traffickers in the country especially in the South East and South-South states, when in the name of all the core family values would the parents of such delinquent young ladies be...
Thursday, May 2nd, 2013
One of the amazons of developmental economics in Africa celebrated her half a century on earth over the weekend. Former ‘madam due process’, Minister of Solid Minerals and Education and former Vice-President of World Bank, Mrs. Oby Ezekwesili needs little introduction. She is one of...
Thursday, April 25th, 2013
With Nnedi Ogaziechi The President made a somewhat intriguing statement at the weekend. He was speaking at the dedication of the House on the Rock cathedral under the leadership of Pastor Paul Adefarasin. The President had, in praising the hard work and dedication that went...
Thursday, April 18th, 2013
In my village, one of the most culturally alluring festivals is the omaba festival. It is marked with all the pomp and pageantry that usually come with well thought out traditional institutions. The ceremony though devoid of active female participation comes with all the...
Thursday, April 11th, 2013
With consistent media torch-lights on the activities of individuals who traffic in babies, it is amazing the deafening silence noticed from quarters that should be at the forefront of fighting this terrible scourge. Young (often innocent) children are recruited to be baby-making machines with the...
Thursday, April 11th, 2013
As the world awaited the election of a new Pope few weeks ago, the prayer by most people around the world was for divine intervention aimed at inspiring the Cardinals to elect the most qualified to pick the baton dropped by Pope Emeritus Pope Benedict ...
Thursday, April 4th, 2013
With Nnedi Ogaziechi, Email: espying@inlng.com, SMS: 08056180164 I attended federal government college Enugu. That was the era of federal government colleges in Nigeria. It was the time when there was no North or South, East or West. We were simply Nigerian children trying to acquire...
Thursday, March 28th, 2013
The prediction by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, (UNESCO) Advisory Committee on Language Pluralism and Multi-Language Education that Igbo language and by implication, culture, may be “subsumed by other Stronger Nigerian Languages”, by 2025 if nothing is done by its speakers to...
Thursday, March 21st, 2013
With Nnedi Ogaziechi, espying@inlng.com, 08056180164 Nigeria remains one of the countries with the highest maternal and child mortality cases in the world. Most if not all our dear first ladies are mothers. Some must have lost one or more relations this way. Instead of embarking on...
Thursday, March 14th, 2013
By Nnedi Ogaziechi Nigeria is really on the edge of the precipice. The leadership needed to pull her over seems to be lacking. A checklist of countries that are progressively developing shows we are yet to be blessed with people who see the people as...
Thursday, March 7th, 2013
Nigeria is fast turning into one big circus show. At the moment, the country has become the popular ‘one chance’ bus. Both the ‘passengers’ and the future ‘victims’ (to be picked along) are headed to an uncertain future. What do we see? Bizarre and blood-chilling...
Thursday, February 28th, 2013
Sometimes last week, Gen. John Shagaya (rtd.), a former internal affairs Minister and Senator that represented Plateau South Federal constituency at the National Assembly between 2007-2011 lamented the negative effects of insecurity in the northern part of the country on the country’s economy. He should...
Thursday, February 21st, 2013
Our politicians are some of the ‘busiest’ groups of human beings on this planet. The snag is the types of actions they are mostly identified with are too often very economically and socially unproductive. Just take a look around, weddings, birthdays, funerals, house warming and...
