Abiodun Ladepo

What obtains in Nigeria obtains in the US, albeit with slight modifications.  You do not need monkey-like summersaults before raising your child in God’s ways.  You cannot allow your children to be so spoilt to the point that they become incorrigible and constitute permanent liability to you...

It often comes to Nigerian men living in the US as a rude shock when their wives become the household’s bread winner.  Having been accustomed to the docility, domestication, subjugation and outright terrorization of women back home in Nigeria, many Nigerian men are astounded when their wives assert their financial, behavioral and social independence...

This past Wednesday, Goodluck Ebele Jonathan elevated crassness and primitiveness to the highest level imaginable by signing into law a bill banning homosexuality in Nigeria...

Let me state from the outset that I do not intend to contend the veracity of the issues you raised in your letter.  But I intend to provide the appropriate contexts which you deliberately left out...

Some Nigerians with a sense of history and enough patriotic blood in their veins have tried to remind our power-drunk political leaders that at this rate, we may be inadvertently inviting the military to truncate our democracy.  Rather than heed their advice, our leaders put their blinders on as if merely wishing away coups is enough to prevent one...

No matter what you thought of Olusegun Obasanjo’s leadership of the country and the PDP, you almost wished that OBJ was back in charge; for he had a strong spine. I cannot imagine ANY governor walking out on OBJ...

In the blind rage to throw FFN under the bus, in front of the train, and later into the River Niger, all of us have conveniently forgotten to address the more salient points he made...

Both the pastor and the imam are themselves victims of an all-encompassing ideological indoctrination which has turned their world into a cocoon.  Were their worlds open, they would, of course, question the process that got them to the extremes of their ideologies...