Sheyi Oriade

I agree that there is room for improvement in Nollywood productions, as indeed with anything else, I do feel that Spike Lee’s Nollywood remarks were suffocatingly patronising, condescending, paternalistic and hubristic; characteristics which he has often detested and decried in the many of the antagonists with whom he has crossed swords over the years...

It was no surprise to tennis realists that yet again the sisters prevailed in decisive fashion at the world’s oldest and most prestigious tennis championship...

To those who may think it unthinkable that there can ever be a successful observance of a ‘national non-stealing day’ in Nigeria, I say it is worth a go nonetheless...

Going by the conciliatory outcomes of this week, perhaps, before the week is out, Governor Oyinlola well set plans afoot to reconcile the Abiolas and the Abachas; the Ooni of Ife and the Alafin of Oyo; PDP and AC; Christians and Moslems; North and South...

It is somewhat paradoxical that our current experiment at representative government is severely deficient in its ‘representative’ component...

In Nigeria, as in most other nations, the practice of our politics and its governance - since before, and ever since independence, and right through to the present time - has been an overwhelmingly male preserve and pursuit...

So much for the naysayers of all complexions and complexities - within and without of Africa - who at the onset of majority rule in South Africa, predicted with prophetic certainty that that nation was doomed...

In the face of the magnitude of the challenges which confront us and pose a common and indiscriminate threat to the wellbeing of mankind as a species, it stands to reason that we pool resources together to ensure our collective survival...