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Just yesterday — March 10, 2010 – Nigerians bent the capricious hand of kismet; they rose against the pirating of…
Son, rules of pursuing, chasing and toasting ladies have gone global. We used to hang around the ladies we like…
Empowered citizens voted for politicians they knew would make them poorer, for liars to clean up politics…Tom Fletcher, The Naked…
It is no longer news that Nigeria’s political and socio-economic realities are nothing to write home about. For this reason,…
The question was put by interviewer Kay Burley on Britain’s Sky News network to UK Health Secretary Matt Hancock. “Is…
The Buhari administration has ruptured the ceiling of liberties it enjoys. Like King Solomon in his last uneventful years, the…
Movies are a veritable source of information, education and majorly entertainment. Millionaires have emerged from the movie industry while many…
He has become part of the furniture when it comes to discussions about privacy rights and personal liberties, arguably an…
Sometimes when you hear certain things about Nigeria’s public tertiary institutions, you cannot help but weep for this country. You…
News and information can only go so far. Despite the utopian fluffiness about having multiple platforms, the consumers of news…
One of Nigeria’s most outstanding military-diplomats, General Ike Omar Sanda Nwachukwu, turns 80 years today, 1st September, 2020. Born in…
The director of the World Health Organization, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, has welled-up because of it. In March, he feared that…
The recent call by the United Nations for the federal government to combine dialogue with the deployment of force to…
“Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it” –George Santayana, The Life of Reason, 1905 The riding…
“Why is everybody stealing in Nigeria? Please, why the stealing? Here, in our country, stealing seems like an act of…
When we shout to high heavens of how corruption is steadily wrecking havoc to our national advancement, when we talk…
The so-called Igbo struggle is an enterprise. Individuals from the south-east, who find themselves in the position of political influence,…
Acculturation of European ways of life into African communities was intentionally planned to suppress our cultures and create longing demands…
These are proving testy times for Australian-Chinese relations. Last week, Chinese authorities announced that an investigation would be conducted into…
It was disheartening to read the Minister of Power Resources’ carefully spun narrative on securing a $6.1bn ‘funding’ to improve…
On September 7, Julian Assange will be facing another round of gruelling extradition proceedings, in the Old Bailey, part of…
No sincere follower of the purported ongoing investigation of Ibrahim Magu, who was recently forcibly sacked as Acting Chairman of…
The two primary goals of every nation are peace and development, and a nation’s national security architecture is put in…
The September 19, 2020 governorship election in Edo State should have been a family affair. A “referendum” of sorts or…
https://www.wealthresult.com/business/how-nigeria-tailors-can-change-their In my recent post, “Identity construction, Consuming Passion & Fashion entrepreneurship in Africa,” I pointed out the ‘entrepreneurial emergence’…
The Igbos: a diaspora culture, a free-spirited people with commercial bravado, dispersed and rooted in every functional community in Nigeria…
In what is a turn-up for the books, a senior voice of the Catholic Church made something of an impression…
Those who had been stoking the fires of divisive politics and fanning the embers of the politics of bitterness in…
Femi Fani-Kayode makes conceit solemn. He is the sui generis of narcissism. His arrogance dovetails with his foul temper and…