Commentary: Encounter with Shema
Ken Ugbechie Fear is the enemy of mortal man. Fear kills before the real death comes stalking. Fear has a spirit, it makes the heart of an otherwise strong man…
Commentary: Chibok, Beauty from Ashes
Ken Ugbechie It is well over a 100 days since over 200 girls from Government Secondary School in the small community of Chibok in Borno State were forcibly ferried from…
Winning With a Smile in the Office
By Annabelle Okwara Macford Without mincing words at all, I’m just going to say it as it is. An occurrence prompted this particular write up. I think I will be…
Dame Patience Jonathan: An Appraisal
Ken Ugbechie By the time the last dust of her husband’s tenure fades away and anthologists scurry to scribble her place in Nigerian socio-political history, Dame Patience Faka Jonathan would…
Why Plot Against Jonathan will Fail…
Ken Ugbechie No single human has defined the treachery of Nigerian politics than President Goodluck Jonathan. For some uncanny reasons, Jonathan has become the prime target of a legion of…
When Culture Conflicts With Office Norms
By Annabelle Macford Okwara Culture is defined as the beliefs, customs, practices and social behaviour of a particular nation or people, while norm is a standard pattern of behaviour that…
Why is Our President Jittery?
By Ken Ugbechie In life, some things astound you. Some others confound you, yet a lot more confuse you. I have been a victim of all of this these past…
Sule Lamido, a Real Northern Star
Ken Ugbechie Recently, I had cause to go up North. Destination: Dutse, capital of Jigawa State where Alhaji Sule Lamido is the governor. In recent years, a confederacy of reasons…
SELF CONFIDENCE…
By Annabelle Macford A lot of us know where we want to be, but getting there is the problem. Little wonder it is said that the journey of a thousand…
My New Year Resolution
By Annabelle Macford Okwara At the beginning of every year, we hear people say words like “I have made my New Year resolution”. Or ask questions like “have you made…