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Bart Nnaji, Okey Ndibe & African Commentary Magazine

“Publishing is a cruel and shallow money trench, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free, and good men die like dogs.” -...

Akin Ogunbiyi: 64 years of quiet conviction

Saturday, September 12, was a special day for the family, friends, and well-wishers of Dr. Akinade Akanmu Ogunbiyi, as the charming leader marked the...

A Hospital For Chima Ubani

In this sad season in Nigeria I got filled with so much joy when the news reached my end that Abia State Governor, Dr...

Trivial Thinking: How Stupid Questions Can Lead to Sensible Answers

The human mind works in funny ways and it helps if you can just exercise it; stretch it a little bit, for one practically useless purpose...

The Queue for Shoprite Bread

The title of this piece which has nothing to do with the global food crises may as well have been Begging for Bread at Shoprite. Yes, that’s what they make us do at Shoprite...

Times Are Changing In There

I think that the moment we move away from discussing our social, economic and political issues and get into attacking personalities, that we will no longer be any different from those we have so conveniently blamed for our problems in Nigeria...

The Missing or Shrinking Organ? No, It is Genital Retraction Syndrome

Within the African continent, contagions of the intellect, mass hysterias and crippling urban legends are common. In one country after another, there are confounding tales of everything...

The Next Einsteins and The Expressway Churches

Sheep is an animal with a challenging intellectual deficit. Have you seen how they cross busy roads? Young minds should aspire to be goats. A goat believes in itself. It is smart. It does not take no for an answer...

Witchcraft and the Impurities in the African Mind

Superstition, poverty and ignorance accounts for why, many decades after many societies have progressed, the African life is still loaded with primitive passions and preliterate conditions...

Who Wants Lagos Drivers’ Licence?

What is it that causes the FRSC to spend weeks on end to process issuance and renewal of drivers’ licences?

I Bought a Book on Etiquette Today

Child worship and self advertisement among Nigerian parents are definitely on the rise while common sense and good manners are on the decline…

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Thoughts on the Nigerian Mentality: Combative Mode

Can my enemy or my former enemy ever be right? Can he posses a smidgen of truth? The answer to this question might well reside on whether we are able to reboot and let go of our corrosive state of injury...

Taking The Niger Delta To The Chatham House: Convicting The Blood! Curtailing The Oil!

That the Nigerian economy has lost more than one billion dollars a month and hundreds of thousands of barrels of crude a day since 2006 due to unrest in the Niger Delta is not a fresh story...

Bill Gates or Matt Ridley: Whose ideas are right for Africa?

Africa must embark on the area of trade specialization where she has the greatest comparative advantage. It seems that agriculture is the best possible for Africa...

Power Must Change Hands – Or Must It?

Anyone familiar with the spiritual thunderings of the colourfully...

Nigeria: Legitimizing Terrorism and Banditry?

Many things in life defy comprehension, rationality, or basic...

Our Continued Disunity

I wonder how long we are going to continue this disunity. Many lives are lost as a result of our inability to become united as one people, yet we still have an ethnic and tribalistic outlook...

Abba Kyari and the Nigerian Culture of Pseudo-Outrage

Nigerians are a very funny lot. Not only have we...

Some Things Just Cannot Wait…Helon Habila Discusses Measuring Time With Ike Anya (1)

"Stereotypes are often created out of ignorance, and sometimes malice. The best counter to that is of course education, which is one of the things, my novel does, I think.." Helon Habila

Of Inflation and minimum wage demands in Nigeria

Is the perennial agitation for minimum wage increase justifiable? This is the question many people have been asking. From an economic point of view, continuous wage increase is not justifiable. In fact it is ruinous to the economy...

Enough Already

There are moments when a man must rise out of his chair and start marching. There are moments in the life of a nation, in the lives of people, when they must awaken and fight before the onset of calamity. This may well be the final hour to do so...