Opinion

The Big Five Personality Traits, also known as OCEAN or CANOE, are a psychological model that describes five broad dimensions of personality: Openness, Conscientiousness, Extraversion, Agreeableness, And Neuroticism. These traits are believed to be relatively stable throughout an individual’s lifetime. Conscientiousness: impulsive, disorganized, vs disciplined, careful Agreeableness: suspicious, uncooperative vs. Trusting, helpful Neuroticism: calm, confident…

Photo credit: Legit I can boldly say that the farce of a nation called Nigeria is nothing but a tragicomedy. I’m insisting the nation is a farce because history tells me so. Apart from that, except for the first republic election, which the British duly supervised, which produced a prime minister, which other head of…

Photo credit: Britannica Julian Assange is an Australian writer, journalist, publisher and activist. He founded Wikileaks in 2006. In 2010, Sweden issued an arrest warrant against him for allegations of sexual assault. He managed to get into the Ecuadorian embassy in the U.K. in 2012. He was even granted Ecuadorian citizenship while in political asylum…

Photo credit: Sunrise News I was pissed off yesterday. My problem is that I have lived in a saner Nigeria not so long ago. Another problem is the fact that it seems so long ago! Like I said, in my sane Nigeria, we attended church and tithes were collected. But then, it was nothing in…

These are definitely trying times in Nigeria. Almost everything is being politicised. Before the Anambra state elections, there were reports of the army offering medical services to primary school pupils. I don’t want to discuss whether or not the soldiers were supposed to be there at that point. However, the fact is that some parents…

Photo credit: Business Day I understand a biil has been placed before the senate to regulate social media. This is an appropriate development. Isn’t it? Why should anybody have the audacity to be writing rubbish on social media in spite of all the good things this government is doing? In the first instance, petrol (PMS)…

Photo credit: Facebook Because I neither care nor spare whose ox is gored when I “wail and rant,” I wouldn’t describe myself as a gentleman. How can I possibly be a gentleman when the ruling class in my country is getting rich at the expense of the ruled?How gentle can I be when I see…