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…

Igbos are always looking  into your personal life and if they see what to them seem like weak points in it they immediately pounce on them, exploit them and use them to try blackmailing you and or bringing you down. They never struggle to build people up but always want to bring people down. They harp on what to them seems your negative side and hope that in doing so they would persuade you to embrace their deluded goals or else they take you down. They talk boldly about you as if they know that what they are talking about…

Rookie psychotherapists perceiving the devastation paranoid characters leave in their wake are tempted to blame them; seasoned psychotherapists learn that paranoia is a mental disorder and that the sick need to be understood and helped to become healed and not blamed for the negative behaviors they exhibit. This paper says that we should not blame Igbo paranoid persons but try to understand them and help them overcome their mental disorder; their paranoia causes too much social problems for them and for other people and therefore they have to be helped to overcome it for society’s good. One Should Not Blame…

Society is composed of people.  We know that where two or more people live together, given their individual differences and values there must be law that delineates how they behave towards one another. Without laws people living together would trespass on each other’s rights and since those trespassed on don’t like it the result would be conflict and war. Thomas Hobbes, in his seminal book, Leviathan, said that in nature folks warred with each other, with the strong trying to use the weak to make their living and a bunch of the weak reacting with efforts to protect their rights.…

“There is nothing exclusive in the term unity; unity for Nigeria holds out the best chance for progress when that unity is a unity of purpose rather than the present hollow approach to unity for sake of unity. For unity to be meaningful, it has to be creative, not the unity of Jonah in the whale but the unity of holy matrimony. The first can only lead to defecation, the second to procreation”. – Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu. I have just finished work on a new book titled Nigeria is Negotiable. Its release is scheduled to coincide with the 20th anniversary…

The appalling contemplation of the Federal Government to grant amnesty to the faceless Boko Haram terrorist group is to say the least embarrassing to the citizens of the world who have human feelings running through their veins. It is despicable to humanity, the guts the group has to request for an amnesty while some leaders are in the festive mood about granting Amnesty to the Masquerades. The Federal Government rejected the demand for amnesty for the faceless masked ghosts at Yobe and Jonathan administration made a U-Turn to grant amnesty, poses the question who is asking for amnesty for the…

Adjective 1. not within proper or reasonable limits; immoderate; excessive: He drank an inordinate amount of wine. 2. unrestrained in conduct, feelings, etc.: an inordinate admirer of beauty. 3. disorderly; uncontrolled. 4. not regulated; irregular: inordinate hours. Greed and inordinate ambition lead to great human tragedy “He that seeks to be great by all means seeks the path of self-destruction” It is no longer a surprise that inordinate ambition, narrow-mindedness and greed have been the causes of insecurity, mindless corruption, poor or bad governance, all culminating in poverty, mediocrity, underdevelopment and conflicts in many African countries. Logically speaking, human beings…

Tribute to My Friend, Chinua Achebe (Ikejimba; 1930-2013) was written by Chike Momah in honour of late Prof. Chinua Achebe, which I consider a must read by those who have not had the general or particular opportunity to share in it. He highlights that "this tribute is a second revision of a piece (REFLECTIONS ON CHINUA ACHEBE) which I wrote in 2000, and revised in 2007. His passing, in the third week of March 2013, has necessitated this revision." First published in May 2, 2013 In Achebe: Exit of a Literary Giant. Below is even what one of Achebe's children touts his father…

Typical of the Jonathan regime, it took the effort of investigative journalists – this time, the reporters at Premium Times – to alert Nigerians about the planned assault on our civil liberties. The latest deal, involving an Israeli company, Elbit Systems Ltd., is for the supply of the “Wise Intelligence Technology (WiT) System for Intelligence Analysis and Cyber Defense”. That we have not heard from presidential spokespersons, Reuben Abati and Doyin Okupe, is a tacit acknowledgment that the contract, as reported last week, is indeed real. We can bet they are busy cooking up an “appropriate” response. Elbit describes its…