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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...

Champions For Nigeria

Why is our nation, home to brilliant minds, rich traditions, rich in natural and mineral resources and centuries of wisdom, withering in poverty while most other nations rapidly move ahead of us?

That Binyavanga Wainaina Jibe

It would help the African literary cause if Binyavanga sets out to educate himself a little more about the Igbos seeing that he is now benefiting from them...

Nothing Has Ever Felt Like This

The feeling of releasing a fart is absolutely phenomenal!  There is an ah moment that comes after one is released into the world.  It is a feeling of liberation!

Open Letter To Lagos State Police Commissioner

We know you are new to the job, expectedly there will be lots of Initial Gra Gra. But your policy of arresting and arraigning our Lagos ladies for skimpy dressing is absurd...

Something About Some Things

There is always this grouse about African men not wanting to do whatever it is non-African women expect men to do in the bedroom, on the couch, or on the washing machine...

30 Other Things That Need Sexing-Up

I’ve compiled a list of 30 things that I - and hopefully all Nigerians - find utterly boring and completely uninspiring...

Genevieve, Betty Irabor and “AIDS PEOPLE”

Publishers of glossy magazines should be careful what tales they tell. But no one seems to have warned Betty Irabor, Editor-in-Chief of leading women’s magazine, Genevieve...

Obituary: Professor Jabez Ayodele Langley

I regret to announce the passing of an eminent African, Professor Jabez Ayodele Langley. He was a great man and a great African, hence a great many of us consider it a privilege to have known him...

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Emphasis on Remedial Approach to the Neglect of Penal Technique Method in the Enforcement of Environmental Laws in Nigeria

The technology involved in extracting crude from oil wells, the process of refining, the myriad of pipes interlacing each other through which the refined oil are transported to various depots, the combustible nature of refined oil, the possibility of spill, are what make up-stream and down-stream activities hazardous to both animate and inanimate objects within a given environment...

Naming The Cabals: Dizeani’s Impossible Mission

It is about time we abandoned the extraordinary myth which reduces belongingness to a cabal to only politicians and their collaborating businessmen and women. We should defy this woolly thinking...

Revisiting the Legal and Moral Right of Biafra to Self-Determination

Introduction The ongoing discourse around Biafra's right to secede from...

Why the Chibok Girls May Never Return To Us

It has been over one hundred days since the abduction of the Chibok girls. Over one hundred days in which the girls have had to endure pure horror and pain in the hands of terrorists. Over one hundred days of waking up at the mercy of the mood swings of terrorists...

New York Film Festival To Honor Tunde Kelani

The African Film Festival, probably the leading black and African film gathering in the world, is validating the Nigerian movie industry and cinematographer Tunde Kelani…

Tease And Tense To Rule Nigeria: How culpable is the North?

Nigeria’s political system in general is largely driven by one or two or three motives of 5Ps – profit, politics, propaganda, privilege and power. Service to society is only a pretext for gaining a foothold...

Babatunde Fashola: the Loner of Sodom?

There are legitimate questions to ask about Fashola’s road to office. It is a photocopy of Yar’Adua’s route to Aso Rock: the route of brazen, nepotistic, and muscular godfatherism...

Nigerian Youth: A Reassuring Lesson from France and the Defeat of Populism in Europe

The attention of the world was on France last...

Ogboru’s Lincoln Argument and Otive Igbuzor

It’s strongly alleged that Great Ogboru wants to contest the 2015 guber election in Delta. For a man who has hitherto contested severally, got the people’s mandate all such times but in each case failed to get it right in the end, it is no wonder that tongues are now wagging...

Abba Moro and the War on the Poor

Mr. Moro, Nigeria’s Minister of the Interior, is sitting pretty precisely because the Nigerian state has scant regard for Nigerians wounded by the festering sore of poverty. That sentence actually puts a gloss on the reality...