Interviews & Profiles

The Asika Phenomenon

Uzor Maxim Uzoatu Controversy is the author of history. The Nigeria-Biafra war was controversy writ large, and there’s no dodging the historical role of Ajie...

Oyetola: The quiet strategist at 72

We are celebrating the 72nd birthday of an outstanding leader who, coming from the small town of Iragbiji in Osun State, has made his...

Dan Ocholi – Tribute To My Boss & Brother

The (in)famous ‘Lagos – Ibadan’ press, depending on the side of the divide translates to different strokes for different folks. The appellation is derived...

Conversation with Anne Easterly

"Find a symbol of your dream...Plan how to reach your dream or goal. Take a step, Learn from that first step and plan your next step..."

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Cloak and Dagger: Plotting the Removal of Governor Timipre Sylva

All is not well in Yenagoa. The major participants - Jonathan, Alaibe, and Sylva - all have daggers drawn, concealed by overflowing cloak. In all of this, Governor Timipre Sylva is the target...

Conversation with Anne Easterly

"Find a symbol of your dream...Plan how to reach your dream or goal. Take a step, Learn from that first step and plan your next step..."

Honor In Nigeria: Between Obasanjo And Achebe

When a government chooses which section of the law to respect; routinely violates the Constitution and court rulings, is that government not slapping the people in the face?

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Once, shortly after our independence from Great Britain, the whole world believed, and were never in doubt that, Nigeria was going to be a great, if not the greatest African nation in the world...

The Problem with Fixing Nigeria: How to if we really try

There is this natural tendency to despair in the rot called Nigeria even when one lives in this paradise of misgovernance in fits and bursts. However, despair is exactly what the rulers of Nigeria want us to feel...

From U.S.A with Love: Conclusion

It was a call from Naija and the voice on the other end was urgent and frantic: please send money right away, uncle Faster is in serious trouble. He was arrested yesterday. I hung up the phone while the caller was still talking and cursed the evil spirit that made me answer that call...

Religion, Politics Nigeria’s National Unity

I was opposed to sovereign national conference, I remain opposed. I have been called various unflattering names for believing unflinchingly in one, indivisible Nigeria...

2007 And The People’s Rights

Almost every Nigerian of voting age is aware of the atrocities committed by the various military leaders who had unleashed their autocratic reigns on our nation in the past. IBB was just one of them and it will be unfair to single him out for "punishment"...