National conference of who and of what?

WE never knew ours isn’t the most unfortunate generation. I belong to a generation that was born in crisis, weaned in war and has never really known the real meaning of peace. Those who arrived here between 1960 and 1969 are appropriate children of war.

Prince is 53 tomorrow

Fat Prince

Nigeria will be 53 as an independent nation tomorrow. In three months time, it will be 100 years old. Those who welded the nation together on January 1, 1914 described the union as one between a “well-behaved” young man (North) and “a lady of means” (South). How well-behaved could a man be when all it hankers after in a relationship are the fortunes of the lady in his life? Should one

What is wrong with Jonathan

There is so much division and anger in the land.

I received a phone call last Monday from a man who railed, cursed and yelled at me for joining what he called ‘press boys’ specially primed by Bola Tinubu to attack Ijaw interest. By Ijaw interest he meant the Jonathan presidency - and he was not kidding. I wanted to know who he was but he would not listen. He proceeded to remind me that all the money “the Yoruba people” make from Nigeria is actually Ijaw money.

Eko o gba gbere rara o!

Eko Wenjele (ZODML Blog)

Written by Lasisi Olagunju
Published on Tribune--Monday Lines
Monday, 30 July 2012

“Do you begin to see, then, what kind of world we are creating? It is the exact opposite of the stupid hedonistic utopias that the old reformers imagined.

A world of fear and treachery and torment, a world of trampling and being trampled upon, a world which grows not less but merciless as it refines itself.” Nineteen Eighty Four —George Orwell.