SINCE the creation of Abia State in 1991, the greatest socio-political tragedy is the formation of an association called “Ukwa-Ngwa”, which also has a famished elders’ council whose members are largely mercenaries. This is a union between the oil-producing Ukwa (Ndoki) and Ngwa communities in the state. Initially, most people did not take the existence…

Last week travelled faster than light, figuratively speaking. Its very first day opened with gunmen said to be Nigerians who reside in South Africa dastardly attacking St. Philips Catholic Church, Ozubulu, Anambra State. Twenty-four hours thence, a typical Nigerian drama played out. Ageless Charly Boy and a handful of citizens who didn’t look anything like…

The perilous times are indeed with us.  Death stalks man, even in the most unlikely places, the citadel of worship, because our worship is abomination unto God, no thanks to the hardness of the hearts of men. We have shunned the persistent nudging of our inner being, the open wound that only righteousness can heal,…

In Biafra, under three years, they were making their own rockets and calculating its distances; distilling their own oil and making aviation fuel, creating in their Chemical and Biological laboratories, new cures for diseases like Cholera, shaping their own spare parts, and turning the entire East into a vast workshop, as Ojukwu put it. At…

“that the birds of worry and care fly over your head, this you cannot change, but that they build nests in your hair, this you can prevent,” says a Chinese Proverb. We all worry from time to time but PsychAlive and the Bible quote below show it is perhaps more harmful than what we worry about. …

are you in love with your partner or are you just attached to them? Do you want to be with them because you love them or because you don’t want someone else to have them? Being in love with someone means nurturing and creating a relationship based on genuine love and not attachment. Below are…

Dear readers, is happiness just a state of bliss and smiles? Or is their a distinction between true happiness and just happy? I submit that “true happiness with one’s partner comes from a state of contentment that has nothing to do with your material possession. Consider the following: Chineme and Paul, her husband of 22…

My Government teacher at JAMB class took special interest in me because I performed excellently in his subject. Often times after class, he would call me to encourage me about my studies. I wasn’t suspicious because our Literature teacher back then was a man and he also took special interest in my academic work.  This teacher…

In my last reflection on the global personality, Professor Toyin Falola, the Jacob and Frances Sanger Mossiker Chair in the Humanities at the University of Texas at Austin, United States of America, and Africa’s preeminent historian, I situated a critical dimension of his intellectual eminence within the triad factors of Nigeria’s, and Africa’s, development, the…

Post-Independence Nigeria has struggled with the issue of identity and accurate census. Since the rebirth of democracy in 1999, the nation has gone through several identity motions, all amounting to zilch, the worst being the national ID card project midwifed by Chief Olusegun Obasanjo government. That project was powered by a French company, Sagem, but…