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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...

“Nigerian Journalists, where are your cameras?”

The sudden passing of one of the doyens of legal education and vast array of jurisprudence in Nigeria, Prof. Jadesola Akande came to me as a rude shock...

Building Nigerian, Brazilian Heritage With Architecture

‘My great-grand parents were taken to Brazil during the slave trade. Today, my family house in Brazil is Abule-Bamgbose in Bambgose Street in Salvador, Bahia. My cousins live there. Brazilians in Bahia have a religious connection with the Yoruba that is not just skin deep...’

Meeting The Needs Of Nigeria’s Re-Emerging Middle Class

It may seem that the provision of infrastructure, particularly affordable and decent housing, security of lives and property, adequate social amenities, etc., are key to satisfying the demands and tastes of the re-emerging middle–class in

A Tale Of Two Citizens: The Nigerian Unknown Woman And Mr. Governor

I urge fellow Nigerians to read the two narratives below and draw their own conclusions as to what manner of persons we have as our leaders in Nigeria...

Brig. Gen. Solomon Giwa–Amu, 1959-2008

As I write this, it’s beginning to look like nothing makes sense and would ever make sense anymore. As I write this, it’s becoming difficult every minute to make sense of what this life is all about…

Understanding Our Weakness, Our Powerlessness

Damn it! The white man will continue to dominate and show manifest signs of superiority over other races as long as we lack initiatives and the required wisdom to do things right for our people…

Between Blacks and Whites: The Issue of Genetics!

Is it not safe therefore, gentlemen and ladies, for one to consciously conclude that the whites are indeed more superior than blacks in terms of reasoning power and general comportment?

Paul Adujie…Where is Paul I. Adujie?

For quite sometime now Paul has been absent from the pages of NIA and other sites. And quite frankly I miss his style...

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On The Day I Die I Will Rise Up…A Book Review

The majesty of one woman’s spirit provides the backdrop for the opening story: a tale of unrelenting domestic abuse, and institutionalized cruelty and injustice in the name of Sharia. A powerful beginning to a collection of stories structured around greater or lesser violations of God’s law or Man’s.

Nothing Going On But The Rent

Why do Nigerians visiting America get all judgmental about the way we live here? Don’t they pay bills in Nigeria? They don't? Ah, that explains why they never have electricity or water…

Filth in the Educational Sector

We are today confronted with the case of a naked public square which signals the gradual disappearance in just two generations of the religious or metaphysical principles that have sustained human and material civilization for over two millennia. This dangerous and painful turn is penetrating into our society today...

Active Governance With Nothing To Show: Why Is It Here?

It is generally the poor that suffer from bad governance. If anyone were to challenge that claim, it would be difficult to present them with overwhelmingly convincing factual evidence...

Sycophancy and governance in Nigeria

This week, my ever curious eyes took a peep into the various arms of government in my dear country Nigeria.  And my eyes specifically picked up one of the most dangerous blight silently eating away our social, economic and political fabric. This is no other than sycophancy...

South Africa and the Advent of President Jacob Zuma

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...

When Your Papa or Mama is a Thief

What do you do or say to your dad when you know he is a thief? You know it, just as most Nigerians, that your dad is robbing the treasury. You know he is a damn thief...

Speaker Bankole’s Ceremonial Tears

How long shall we continue to woo unimpressed buyers with our substandard product? Why can’t we deploy all that energy to dissuade Nigerians from continuing to see their country as some unfortunate but richly-endowed whale washed ashore by sea waves...

Corrupt, Indolent and Profligate Oyo State House of Assembly

It would have been hilarious were it not true that members of the Oyo State House of Assembly took their spouses on a junket through the United Kingdom (UK) and the United States (U.S.) on tax payers’ backs...

PDP: Victim of their own Impunity

The recent happenings in the polity of our nation...