Prof. Chinua Achebe: Adieu to a literary giant
YAHAYA BALOGUN, Arizona, USA (Nigeriaworld) - Chinua Achebe....Our erudite and a prolific writer; A literary giant is gone forever....as you craw through the Anthills of the ; Savannah, things are No longer at ease.; And the world is celebrating your kindred spirit to; A Wild blue yonder, where things will not fall apart; A firmament embellished with fecund poets and ; Literary craftsmen, we mortals remember you as a man of the people. more >>
BOOK REVIEW
The African Origin of Civilization: Myth or Reality, By Cheikh Anta Diop
FEMI AKOMOLAFE, (Nigeriaworld) - It is true that the Black race lay weakened and prostrated today, but this was not always the case. We tend to forget that Africa was there at the beginning, and that more than half of human history has passed before anyone knew of a European. We also forget that Anglo-Saxons were just waking up from their savage state, Ghana Empire was already at the peak of its glory? We also no longer remember that while plagues and famine killed off a third of Europe's population, an African Emperor, Mansa Musa, dazzled the ancient world with his wealth. more >>
Stop this evil song & pray for Nigeria
Pastor AMOS D. DADA, Toronto, Ontario, Canada (Nigeriaworld) - The major threat to Nigeria is Boko Haram. While I commend the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria for his efforts in fighting the insurgency and the recent declaration of Emergency in some states, the fact is that this is a spiritual battle. It is a fight between light and darkness. The Boko Haram war will be won on our knees and not through amnesty, emergency declaration or brutal force. The battle is the Lord's. more >>
2015: The Big Uniport Four (Jonathan, Amaechi, Wike & Princewill) and way out of the Rivers macabre dance
CHUKWUEMEKA EZE, Port Harcourt, Nigeria (Nigeriaworld) - Throwing more light on the perceived sins of Gov Amaechi, one of his closest allies, former Commissioner of Works and presently the Chairman of the Petroleum Downstream Committee of the House of Representatives, Hon. Chief Dakuku Peterside, recently in an interview stated, “Some persons also claim that he is too forthright and I don’t know what crime that is called. However, the biggest unsaid problem is the perception by certain persons in the presidency that Governor Amaechi has ambition to aspire to higher office....'' more >>
Objectivity is hard, but…
NICHOLAS I. UDUMAGA, (Nigeriaworld) - Cost of living is sky-high, probably the highest in the world, but, widows are sending their children to universities. Everything is money in Nigeria. Even spittle, not to talk of trash. Oh yes, the trash, trash, trash everywhere in some of the cities, towns and even villages! Definitely a problem of “poor man’s over-consumption,” that has afflicted Nigeria, due to over-importation! Petro-naira at work here. Well, modern refuse collection and disposal is making much inroads into some of the cities. more >>
FROM THE PREACHER'S LENSES
Between ACN/Aregbesola and Omisore: Who is afraid of who?
DIRAN ODEYEMI, Osun State, Nigeria (Nigeriaworld) - In Yorubaland, when you are ignored, it is either that you are presumed to be a mad dog that barks for no significant purpose other than 'notice me' or that people just want to apply the golden rule that silence is the right answer for now until 2014. Then, their voices will be in their votes. more >>
World prophecy:- Jesus Second Coming- Virgin Mary to Michelle/New Jerusalem
OSAGIE C. ADUN, London, UK (Nigeriaworld) - Jesus second coming has been predicted long ago. He Himself has said so, when he first walked the earth two thousand years ago. He promised that he was going to come with great triumphal, earth shaken, and thunderous entry. With a tremendous ovation after the devil has been defeated and put to shame, and will be seen by everyone. The ground work is on- going, with the fight between the angels of God and the devil's army. more >>
THE CHRISTIAN WALK
The village head Professor (Part 2)
WUMI AKINTIDE, New York, NY, USA (Nigeriaworld) - I can understand Kabiyesi Ooni Risa Sijuade, Kabiyesi Alaafin Lamidi Adeyemi, to mention a few in the Yoruba enclave, calling themselves Royal Majesties. I can understand the Sultan of Sokoto, the Emir of Kano, the Shehu of Bornu and the Etsu Nupe claiming such titles in the old North to remind them of their past glory and history. I can understand the powerful Oba of Benin making the same claim in Edo, or the Obong of Calabar or the Jaja of Opobo or the Obi of Onitsha doing the same thing, but it is mind-boggling to hear little chieftains like the Alaiyede of Ogbese, the Olu Alayere, the Oloja Morio and the Akapinsa of Ipinsa or the Akota of Ikota or the Olu Ala, the Olumafon the Olugushin of Igunshin to mention a few in Akure area calling themselves monarchs or their Royal Majesties and telling the Deji he cannot remove them if they cross the line because he did not appoint them. more >>
The United States government report: The Nigerian government is still living in denial (1)
TEMPLE C. UBOCHI, Bonn, Germany (Nigeriaworld) - The problem with Nigeria today is that the rulers are living in fool’s paradise, and are not getting the message that things are out of hand in the country. There may be corruption everywhere, but, the difference is that in Nigeria, it’s being perpetrated with impunity, as nobody pays a price for shortchanging the nation and its people. The worst thing that can happen to a nation or individuals is when there’s a problem, but, the people who should solve it, chose to live in denial. more >>
Nigeria: The road map to peace and development
E O EKE, (Nigeriaworld) - The question remains how do we really begin to solving the Nigeria problem, especially since many people have compared it to the legendary Augean stable. Unfortunately, the problem with this perspective is that the Nigeria problem is a real problem which would not yield to magical solution. No one in Nigeria has the power to redirect a river to clean a very dirty political system sustained by a traditional culture that condones, intolerance, corruption, discrimination and injustice. more >>
Amnesty
Fr. PAT AMOBI CHUKWUMA, (Nigeriaworld) - Presently, the Government of Dr Goodluck Jonathan is considering granting amnesty to the Islamic Boko Haram Terrorists from the Northern part of the country, who have bombed and shot numerous innocent Nigerians to death, even on a Christmas day. The Niger-Delta militants were fighting for a just cause and they had a face. But the Boko Haram terrorists are faceless and fighting for unjust cause. more >>
FROM THE PREACHER'S LENSES
The made-by-Jonathan logjam in Rivers State
BABS AJAYI, Gatineau, Quebec, Canada (Nigeriaworld) - The bell is ringing, ringing loud and clear, ringing again and again, but those who should listen are deaf and arrogant, so arrogant and so full of themselves they assume an air of superiority over the land. Even when a huge fire is burning and consuming the land and they have been unable to do anything about it; they are ill-equipped to control or contain the fire, suddenly they are moving forward and starting their own fire.... more >>
In this internet age, our children should be doing a lot better than we did
ALFRED UZOKWE, Harrisburg, PA, USA (Nigeriaworld) - In 1977, when I sat for the WASC Exam, because of space limitation in our physics lab, I took my physics practical exam sitting outside the sparsely equipped physics lab under the sun. ... One could go on and on about the difficult conditions under which people of my era, and before, had to tackle academics.... These days, I tell my kids that if people of my era had the advantage they of the internet era have we would have performed wonders. more >>
BOOK REVIEW
They came before Columbus, by Professor Ivan Sertima
FEMI AKOMOLAFE, (Nigeriaworld) - History, as taught in the Western and Western-dominated world, gives the impression that the first Africans to reach the Americas were brought as slaves, in shackles on slaves-ships. So total is the Euro-Americans onslaught on black people that all military, missionary, scholarship, academic forces are mobilized to paint the picture of the African as an eternal slave of the white man. ... The first evidence of a black presence in the America was given to Columbus by the Indians themselves: more >>
Hillary Clinton and 2016 ...Not Yet Uhuru
MICHAEL NNEBE, (Nigeriaworld) - Given my sincere admiration for the likes of Thatcher, Hillary Clinton, and Okonjo Iweala among others, one may assume that I would be rooting for Hillary come 2016. Well, it is one thing to cheer for someone, but part of my responsibility is to analyse things as they are, and as they are likely to be. Every poll today coming out of America puts Hillary at a good forty to forty-five points ahead of the nearest Presidential contender. more >>
A letter to The House Committee for Nigerians in Diaspora
CHRISTOPHER C. ONYEKURU, Barcelona, Spain (Nigeriaworld) - There is also the imminent pressure to send money home, even when some of us are not doing anything. And it has contributed to forcing majority into illegal activities. And many have as a result found themselves in long term prison sentences, having been caught stealing, defrauding or dealing in hard drugs. I strongly believe that our hardship is self-inflicted. more >>
A mother: Of all the gifts that life has to offer, a loving mother is the greatest of them all
TEMPLE C. UBOCHI, Bonn, Germany (Nigeriaworld) - No wonder it has been said that 'a mother is she who can take the place of all others, but, whose place no one else can take'. ... Without the mothers, there wouldn't have been the continuous existence of human beings as procreation is only peculiar to them. God created human beings, but, handed them over to mothers to nourish to the end, so mothers are also an important part of the creation chain. more >>
The village head Professor of Law wants the Deji’s Kingdom cut in half to expand his own (Part I)
WUMI AKINTIDE, New York, NY, USA (Nigeriaworld) - If the Professor-turned Alaiyede Ogbese, a grade D Oba in Ondo State had any respect for history and due process, he would think twice before going on the slippery road to challenge the Deji’s authority on a land Akure had fought with blood and sweat to retain for Akure for as long as any of us can remember. more >>
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