It is more than 2years that we know recession is coming but its just a month that we have heard entered and read about recession , slowing economy, reduction in industrial output , high inflation...

"The logic goes like this; if oil share of Nigeria’s economy is 15% - why blaming oil for the recession?"     Nigeria is officially in recession and when you ask the country’s policy makers: What...

Nigeria is officially in recession for there are now two consecutive negative growths and GDP contractions in two quarters. The economy shrinks sequentially in first and second quarters by .36 and 2.06...

As Techpoint, a Nigerian tech blog, reported, more than fifteen managers and executives of Nigerian background work with and around Zuckerberg at the world’s largest social networking site, occupying...

Traditionally, Democratic Party presidential candidates build coalition primarily with liberal interest groups, which are mostly racial minorities and working class Americans.  This was how Barrack Obama...

“Ceaseless jacking up of interest rate will further soften naira, impeding industrial growth and accelerating inflationary trends.”     Nigeria is in dire economic straits and the de-pegging...

Wole Soyinka – Great Collective conscience of Now By Emeka Chiakwelu


The quest endures frills not space as it fills
Words really have meaning in the hands of a warrior chronicler
A brilliant mind that free words to be active
Never knew words have momentum
Yes buttress the society with words with consequences
You liberated the words and liberated Blackism


Africanism survives with your...

Governor Obiano is a change maker.

Something great is happening in Anambra State of Nigeria. This is nothing short of intellectual, economy-metaphysical and human capital revolution. The salaries of Anambra State workers are paid on time, even with incremental benefits, the schools are excelling and are scoring the best results in the WASSCE, Nigeria.

In addition, there are fly over bridges constructed in capital...

Boris Johnson is an embodiment of a colonial nostalgia.

The blond red-faced bombastic rabble rouser is back again on the international news-scene. I am talking about Boris Johnson, the former mayor of London, who aspired to become UK prime minister before he changed his mind.



Boris was appointed the new British foreign minister by the new installed British Prime Minister, Theresa May.   Boris Johnson is a controversial...

The currency of a nation is a vanguard bulwark that safeguards  the wealth of a nation. Nigeria’s naira holds the intrinsic and inclusive value to country’s GDP and wellbeing. A deteriorated and weaken naira invites aggressive currency speculators to devour the wealth of a nation. Naira value must be aggressively protected because a given currency can be use to monetize debt and for settlement of debts but not necessarily for credit liquidity....

Hollywood movies depictions of Africans, Black faces and Black skins on the silver screen have been used by the whole wide world to justify racism toward Africans and Black people. Go to China, Japan, India and many foreign lands that have never interacted or ever meet Black people in their lives and already they have pre-conceived notions about people with greater melanin visibility.


How and where did these people learn about...

The floated Nigeria’s naira that has been pegged at 197-199 to a dollar lost over 40 percent of its value on the first day of trading.  Unofficial reordered statistics on first day of naira outing  revealed that naira was traded as low as 265 to a dollar and at one point nosedived to 288 to a dollar as naira continued to devalue and losing its purchasing power.  The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has not released the official statistics...

Here comes the big trouble, for with floating of naira comes massive devaluation, Hyperinflation and higher interest rate.



Nigerian government has finally bowed to recommendation by masterly International Monetary Fund (IMF) to devalue naira by allowing the embittered currency to float.  Nigerian government cannot be accused of dithering; the government held his own but oddities and authoritative IMF finally have their...

Muhammad Ali was a modern day hero of our time. Inasmuch the word hero has been bastardized; its true meaning resided with those that achieved uncommon things and Ali was of an exceptional personality. He was courageous, charismatic and compassionate. His life history has become an assignment to those that want to emulate and examine a life worth living.


Ali was the greatest boxer ever lived but he was also a man that made his...