Sunday, May 19th, 2013
With Mac Odu It is saddening that a nation can, through its legitimate organs, create a commission, empower it by terms of reference and fund it to provide a clear direction, only to receive a well-studied and presented report and consign it to the dustbin....
Sunday, May 12th, 2013
With Mac Odu Language is a medium for preservation of culture and civilisation arising naturally from interaction of a people with their ecosystem. The human being, since manifestation on mother earth following the entry of human spirit in the most advanced vehicles provided for his...
Sunday, May 5th, 2013
With Mac Odu Ndeze Mbaise: Confused in function The passing of Eze E. O. Osuagwu last year threw up amazing conflicts between roles of custodians of culture and tradition, and bigots of received religion. He had been a Knight of St. Mulumba (KSM) of the...
Sunday, April 21st, 2013
With Mac Odu Projected gains of Imo Co-operative Summit The first ever Imo Co-operative Summit has been firmly slated for April 25 and 26, 2013 at Heroes Square, New Owerri. All Farmers Association of Nigeria (AFAN), in co-operation with Ministry of Commerce, Imo State Government...
Sunday, April 14th, 2013
By Mac Odu Still on pardon for Alamieyeseigha General Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida (IBB) may have been a Maradona. He has enough nostalgia about his two-party decree not to want to identify with a glaring diminution of integrity imported by the ‘pardon’ of a felon who...
Sunday, April 7th, 2013
The social cost of looting Let us reason like children without preconceived notions here. That is what Nigerian leaders should really be to start appreciating the futility of corruption. Using the latest Maina case as a focus, let us somberly examine the social cost of...
Sunday, March 31st, 2013
With Mac Odu General T Y Danjuma People in leadership positions must now be starkly aware of the gauntlet they run in life on account of wrong decisions. One act of impropriety could lead to ignominy especially if such an act could lead to humongous...
Sunday, March 24th, 2013
By MAC Odu Oby Ezekwesili was an ardent follower of Transparency International (TI). She was there when Transparency in Nigeria (TIN) was registered. I was Deputy President in the early 1990s when we first saw the drift of Nigeria into the abyss or social responsibility....
Sunday, March 17th, 2013
With Mac Odu Women just celebrated their day. A lot has been said about the role of women in contemporary society without full understanding of the complementary role women should play in creation. Women were endowed upon the materialisation of the human spirit with certain...
Sunday, March 10th, 2013
With Mac Odu I have come to the conclusion that it is futile to continue to write lengthy essays in my column. People do not read enough of what I write. The uptake is low. The impact of what I write is lost to most...
Sunday, March 3rd, 2013
But we have no entreaties and no apologies to offer anyone. We went to war for our own self-determination following hatred from our Northern neighbours borne of greed in our prolificacy, fecundity atomicity, and fluidity as a people. We lost the war, but are not...
Sunday, February 17th, 2013
With Mac Odu As far as the majority of Nigerian populace is concerned, Nigerian Independence does not mean much more than a replacement of the white man with his black incongruous substitute whose duty is to exploit the people and better the lot of his...
Sunday, February 10th, 2013
With Mac Odu The Nigerian political system has been the source of anguish to farmers since independence. There is a growing predilection among politicians to regard budgeted funds as available for their whimsical expenditure. Public funds are targeted for distribution as soon as such funds...
Sunday, February 3rd, 2013
With Mac Odu The European world dealt with us. They came to us, pretended to deal with us on equal terms, discovered through greed that they could have us and devised reasons to keep us. They enslaved our psyches with their goods and bowed us...
Sunday, January 27th, 2013
With Mac Odu A large part of European history is recorded. The Europeans latched on to record-keeping as soon as printing was discovered in the late middle ages. But the Turks had knowledge stored away in records prior to the invention of printing. The fall...
