As most Nigerians would like to get over the irrepressible Boko Haram pest, a nightmarish for the Jonathan administration, the declaration of the State of Emergency in Adamawa, Borno, and Yobe States by President Goodluck Jonathan, against the wish of the Nigerian Governors Forum, is a welcome development. Enquiry mind want to know why sparing Gombe, Bauchi, Kano, Plateau, Taraba, Benue, Nasarawa States as security issue that has been a 'dry fish bone' on Jonathan's administration since May 2011.  Is it a design to block the infiltration of terrorists through the Nigerian Borders: Cameroun, Chad, and Niger? Mockingly, these Border…

This essay tries to educate Igbo Internet warriors who do not understand Igbo culture but pretend to do so; specifically, those who do not understand what the name Osuji means. Throughout much of human history there is no instance where a person persuaded deluded persons to give up their delusional beliefs. Delusion is desire to change reality and make it as one wants it to be. If something is black and a deluded person wants it to be white he would simply say so and ask you to accept his psychotic interpretation of reality and if you refuse to go…

Nigeria is a developing country; its social scientists should not take refuge in the Ivory Tower and not participate in the governing of the country. Nigerian social scientists, building on their understanding of the influence of society on the people, ought to be making public policy recommendations to their governments.  Public Policy Oriented Social Science In Developing Countries  Ozodi Osuji  SOCIAL SCIENCE   We can define social science as the scientific field that studies how the working of society affects the individual human being.  Society and its culture appear to influence the individual’s behavior. Sociologists, beginning with August Comte, Emil…

There is this natural tendency to despair in the rot called Nigeria even when one lives in this paradise of misgovernance in fits and bursts. However, despair is exactly what the rulers of Nigeria want us to feel, and we must not give them such pleasures. Despair has succeeded in driving millions, miles away from the shores of our land even as these locusts multiplied their plan of destruction on the helpless souls left behind. But in the midst of despair, is it still possible to see hope? I dare to think so. Nigeria is a paradise of misgovernance but…

Recently, through genetic testing, I've found out that my face cannot tell you what I truly am.  I took a DNA test and the results were that my origin is 82 percent West African, 10 percent uncertain North American origin, and 8 percent British Isles.  I haven't processed this knowledge.  I'm not dark.  I'm not light.  I don't have many "African" features except for the butt and the hair.  There are some genetic traits such as sickle cell gene and my reaction to dairy products as something toxic.  But other than that, in the phenotypic sense, I'm a creation of…

"You got the river of Jer-don, to cross.  Thank God you got the river of Jer-don, to cross.  Just take Jesus as your guide an' He will car-ree you the-ere.  You've got the river, of Jer-don, to cross."   This song was just another gospel song to me until I looked out and realized that my feet were approaching my own personal River Jordan. Under the Old Law Jordan is a place of miracles and it is seen as movement from enslavement to freedom.  Under the New Law it becomes a place of renewal and spiritual cleansing.  Jesus is baptized in…

Thinking about writing. Here's the thought: how many of us can or could walk in our mother's shoes? I'm thinking about my mother. She called me today and her presence filled this house. 38 years as a teacher. 46 years as a mother. 62 years old. What happened to her? What are her pains and her joys? Cannot look at this thing through my own myopic vision. Not when someone you love has put her own feelings aside and shared so much love. Put out that hand when mine was far from strong. I love my mother.   I noticed…

Hello.  Please honour my request and apply due diligence to my need for prayers and intercession.  I am starting chemo on this coming Monday.  I will be taking treatment at the Siteman Cancer Center here in St. Louis.  It is located on the campus of Barnes-Jewish Hospital.  We were initially told that they were going to do a program of chemo involving a once every two weeks treatment in a three to four months on, four months off, manner.  The oncologists have settled on a method of treatment which is fairly new, has been used for 1,000+ persons, and is…

Americanah, when it was published and launched in April, I face-booked it that anyone in diaspora, including those coming abroad for the first time for diaspora lifestyle should read it. It made eloquent sense as reviewers have come to show. The entire work shows in new ways as captured, imagined and experienced by the author a vivid exploration of being African in America, and indeed, any where else Nigerians and Africans converge with their complex dreams in pursuit of more valued things of life. Americanah, a novel, is the very most recent entry by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, and it is published by Random House, with…