“When we were small, we were told that education is the key. As we grew, we discover that the society has replaced the key with entertainment and leisure.” The time when the social dictum was “business before leisure” seem to have passed. Leisure is now the business in Nigeria, yielding 30 billion for the account. […]
Leaders can achieve greater success if they are able to garner the goodwill of the followers, no matter how difficult it is to suspend judgment on some misdeeds. The ability to calm the political storm and work with the opposition, promises more political and economic fruits than wasting energy in fighting opposition After Nigeria’s 2015 […]
Restartnaija is a movement for socio-political enlightenment in Nigeria. It was founded on the belief that there is something great in all the ethnic communities in Nigeria, and thus they must distinguish themselves, in order to define why and how they want to unite in Nigeria. Thus, Restartnaija shares in the belief that each ethnic […]
Religion is defined as ‘a strong belief in a supernatural power or powers that control human destiny’[1] and world occurrences. In their attempt to make sense out of the universe, humans seek the help of supernatural forces behind the physical world. So, humans found religion in an attempt to understand and manage their environment for […]
Census exercises in Nigeria seem to be among the most ridiculed activities in Nigeria. People in the south accuse northerners of inflating their numbers to include their cows and goats. The northerners return the accusation saying that southerners inflate their population to include their ‘ewedu’ in the West and ‘akpu’ in the East. However, one […]
Beta-suya beta-suya, n’ahu nnama is an Igbo adage that emphasizes the effect of our lifestyles on the global community. Literarily, it implies that our increased demand for barbecue results in an increased death of livestock. It means that most of the pleasure we enjoy in the society has been, and is being paid for by […]
You don’t repair a damaged car just by changing the initial bad driver, Instead you take the car to the mechanic for total repair of damaged components. Evil in social interactions and personal conducts is a product of ignorance of the effects of misguided social conducts to the actor(s) and to their environment. To free […]
In the last post, “NO TO ALLIANCE FOR MEDIOCRITY” we sought to identify the reason why some sections of Nigerians feel uncomfortable with the state of common nationhood in Nigeria. We identified two factors, which are the absence of a mutual agreement to nationhood by ethnic communities in Nigeria, and the second factor which is […]
NO TO ‘ALLIANCE FOR MEDIOCRITY’ “Nkem bu nkem, nke anyi bu nke anyi” is an Igbo adage for “what is mine is mine to maintain, and what is ours is for anybody to maintain” which explains the idiom that ‘a cow that belongs to the community dies of hunger’. This is because most members of […]
According to Richard Dowden, one area in which Nigeria seems to be deficient is political leadership.[1] Nigerians have never agreed – or been given the chance to agree – what Nigeria is.[2] It is a country of several ethnic communities that have co-existed at gunpoint for about 56 years. Nigeria has experienced a civil war […]
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