By Prince Charles Dickson, Jos, Nigeria – October 3, 2011 – A kì í mú ìbọn tetere. One does not hold a gun carelessly. (Always be careful in handling dangerous matters.) As we count days to our 51st independence anniversary, all is not well with our beloved nation Nigeria. This in itself is no news, […]
By Prince Charles Dickson, Jos, Nigeria – Sept. 25, 2011 – A Tarokh adage translates, a child lacks wisdom, and some say that what is important is that the child does not die; what kills more surely than lack of wisdom? (A foolish child is not much better than a dead child). It’s almost […]
The greatest lesson in life is to know that sometimes even fools are right—Winston Churchill For all my little education, my maths is very poor, my knowledge of economics relatively average, and my level of financial know-how is not more than those high-sounding words and those pages of the financial markets in newspapers and those […]
By Prince Charles Dickson, Jos, Nigeria – Sept 6, 2011 – Bí a bá ńjà, bí í kákú là ńwí? …Even though we are quarrelling, should we wish each other dead? Some seven years ago I had written on a very similar topic and my introduction is not exactly different, it is sad and so […]
By Prince Charles Dickson, Jos, Nigeria – August 30, 2011 – A Tiv adage, says, a lizard that views a python with disregard will find itself in the belly of the snake. (Whoever disdains obvious danger will suffer dire consequences) In recent weeks some one million Nigerians have been treated to the Lagos Mexican soap […]
The old woman is asked to carry a child on her back, and she says but they know she has no teeth; was she asked to eat the child. When a nation with enormous wealth has a vast majority of its populace living under the poverty belt, it means that government is either not doing […]
By Prince Charles Dickson – Jos, Nigeria – August 19, 2011 – An Ibo saying translated…means, one treats an illness; one does not treat death. It simply implies that if one neglects an illness until death intervenes, the treatment comes too late. All over the world today, it seems every nation is battling one form […]
By Dr. Jideofor Adibe, London, UK – August 7, 2011 – The recent call by Nobel laureate Professor Wole Soyinka for President Goodluck Jonathan to test the workability of the recently passed Freedom of Information (FoI) Act generated deserved headlines. Speaking at the Newspaper Proprietors’ Association of Nigeria (NPAN) Town Hall Meeting on the FoI […]
Complete title of this article is – Jonathan, Now That You Have a Shoe, Where are You Going? By Prince Charles Dickson, Jos, Nigeria – August 7, 2011 – This is a second instalment of an essay I wrote some weeks back…in that admonishment, I had asked that President Jonathan should start walking with or […]
By Prince Charles Dickson, Jos, Nigeria – August 2, 2011 – In the last few weeks I have tried to reflect and make sense out of the labour war with government over N600 per day. The fight for N18K a month, the more I reflect on it, the less sense I seem to be able […]
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