Our lawmakers’ sponsored trip to Ghana

By Casmir Igbokwe
Published Sun 17 May, 2009

Recently, two friends confided in me their inability to perform their conjugal duties. One of them wanted some pieces of advice. The other wanted some money to buy libido-enhancing drugs. I am not a doctor. But I guess that the problem with these men is psychological. The global financial [...]

Searching for truth in Ekiti

By Casmir Igbokwe
Published: Sunday, 10 May 2009
Dumped on uninhabited islands without food for weeks, over 300 dogs began to eat one another. Pulau Ketam villagers had reportedly rounded the dogs up last month and cast them away on two islands off Selangor, a state in Malaysia. Their reason was that the increasing population of stray [...]

The political flu in Ekiti

By Casmir Igbokwe
Published: Sunday, 3 May 2009

THIS is a season of flu. Currently, there is swine flu in Mexico and some other parts of the world. In Nigeria and some other African countries, the flu is political. And it is malignant, life-threatening and deadly.

In Kenya, for instance, over 1,000 people died in post-election violence [...]