The Federal Government of Nigeria’s National Social Investment programme, N-SIP, with particular reference to N-power, for the purpose of this piece, which started four years ago, has been welcomed, accepted and...
The powers-that-be of Boko Haram have never had it so good. It’s as though they are in power. Who has not heard that 601 so-called repentant, sorry, I meant to write repainted, Boko Haram terrorists have been re...
Nigerians are fond of turning very serious matters, even ones threatening the very life of their country, into objects of jokes and laughter. And so, as President Muhammadu Buhari’s anti-corruption posturing and...
Professor Pius Adebola Adesanmi belongs to the class of people larger than life and death. When news filtered out that he was one of the 159 casualties of the Sunday, March 10, 2019 Ethiopian Airlines crash near Addis...
Just like the All Progressive Congress (APC) which was driven by very poor judgment to ask him to pilot its affairs, there is no doubt that having Mr. Adams Oshiomhole as the national chairman of the ruling party was a...
He did not deliver on his promise to write “The Book” before his death. The fact that Dim Chukwuemeka Odumegwu-Ojukwu did not publish a book on the Nigeria-Biafra War leaves a very large hole in whatever passes for...
Nigeria is a sacrament to mediocrity, stumbling towards Armageddon; a metaphor of dysfunction, hovering dangerously over the precipice. Over and above being a testament to the messy afterlife of colonialism, she is the...
The 21 books came to me in two gift paper-bags from the scholar Udenta O. Udenta. The priceless present came along with a 34-page “Guide To The 21 Book Project” entitled “Intellectual Production And The Genealogy Of...
ENIGMATA (TO WOLE SOYINKA @ 70) You hated fruitless journeys abroad, yetAligned into a wasted generation at home: Preferred Kafka quaffed in straight draughtsYet stooped to housebreak Euripides for us: A tiger flauntet...
Let me start with a confession. I borrowed the title of this piece from the American Pulitzer Prize-winning novel A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole. The novel and its author have very interesting stories...
Controversial oil billionaire Prince Arthur Eze is making so much news of late. He has received some heavy knocks in some quarters for insisting that only God can make an Igbo president of Nigeria since the people are...