Inspiring greatness-based ideas
The name ‘Ebonyi’ sounds derogative to an uninformed and to the slaves of prejudice. The myth of Ebonyi inferiority has been sold to unsuspecting public over the years and many have become spiteful of persons and institutions which are attached to Ebonyi. Skeptics and cynics graphically paint Ebonyi gloom as a small landmass, not even qualified to be called a Read more
If things had gone the way devil wanted it, “That Wound Can Heal” would have been my last article in Dragnet and in life. Yet, I still believe that the article was prophetic and pray that the trauma of beholding helplessly armed men trying to gain entrance into my own house 30 minutes before they could succeed and the disappointment Read more
God is not in the habit of doing for men what he has given them power to do. When Fredric Nietzsche attacked Christianity he never meant to attack Christ until it became inevitable to indict him. He was enraged at the morality of those who gather at the foot of the cross crying to a dead man to do everything Read more
What do you dream of in life? Brilliance. Beauty. Name. Fame. Money. Success. Career. Your problem may not be their absence but their presence. You have come to measure happiness in terms of success and your ability to outdo others; that is why you are sad. You have everything but happiness. You have a new job now or political office, Read more
Talk is cheap. Reason is costly because it walks a talk. Since Benedict XVI announced his intention to abdicate papacy and did follow it up with February 28, 2013, historic resignation, six centuries after a reigning pope last followed that step, The Dragnet, has not rested. Calls and text messages have not just been raining but pouring urging the column Read more
Our age offers more knowledge than the previous. From knowing that mangoes ripe, we have come to know that a reigning Supreme Pontiff can resign. This is knowledge for its own sake. Some knowledge can be consequential. Knowledge of evil leads to practice of that vice. We have come to know that abuse of power can be a habit of Read more
