Category: Society and Culture

  The pope’s trip back to his German homeland earlier this year was greeted with cheers and some jeers but now at least one citizen wants the pontiff to be...

You’ve probably heard that men cheat for physical reasons, women for emotional reasons. Sure, there’s some truth to that, but when we asked real women around the country to share...

“…those that order the destruction of African religion and culture are true advocates of mental closure, fanatics and agents of terrorism…,” allafrica.com reported of Nobel Laureate, Professor Wole Soyinka, yesterday,...

Most Igbo names like "Onwutalobi" have symbolic meanings and are grammatical constructed; that is, they constitute a complete expression. "Onwu talu obi" literally means “Death has eaten up a kingdom"-...

Chief Obafemi Awolowo, leader of the banned Action Group and leader of the Yorubas of western Nigeria, was born on March 6, 1909. Son of a farmer and self made...

Patriotism, in its most literary translation, means love for country – one’s country. This love is expected to manifest in a variety of ways the most important of which is...

Chief Sunday Inengite remembers the day the foreigners who had come to his village in Nigeria's Niger Delta struck oil. "They made us be happy and clap like fools, dance...

It is difficult to categorize Igbos in one way. The complexity of the Igbo is something that cannot be quantified – from the origin theories to the Igbo worldview that...

On the issue of monarch or "Ezes" for the Igbo societies, much as I respect this viewpoint because every society strives to build its own unique socio-cultural society based on...

Aliko Dangote is currently ranked 463 in the 2010 Forbes Rich List, Forbes Magazine annual listing of the world’s billionaires, with a current net worth of $2.1Billion, down from the...