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A few weeks have now elapsed since Yar'Adua's arrival in Nigeria in the dead of the night and yet no credible sightings of him are available to anyone. Nigeria and the world are left in the dark, fed with rumours for crumbs...
The dark clouds hanging over the Nigerian nation have refused to lift. However, nature in its extreme kindness continues to shine light over areas of our national life that symbolise supreme decay...
Browsing through comments online about Gaddaffi’s statement on splitting Nigeria, I realized that about ninety percent of the comments supported or praised Gaddaffi for his ‘brave’ statement...
How many Nigerians both at home and in Diaspora, can honestly and realistically claim to be moving towards a new horizon of peace through germane and far reaching political economic and social set focus?
Many southern Nigerians ignorantly label Nigeria's past northern leaders like Abacha, Babangida, and Abubakar as "Hausa" when in fact none of them was/is Hausa...
When a person of Gaddafi’s pedigree begins to suggest that we must jettison the federal character principle and allow merit and achievement to be the templates for our march forward, we should eat the humble pie and listen...
Some dark conjurers say that Yoruba disunity is foreordained in the character of the average member of the race. Disunity may have understandable roots, like say, in our natural assertiveness, love of independence, hatred of groveling subservience, ambition but its consequences have been far-reaching in its conflictual predilections and infelicities...
I wish you could be here to see these fellows who send you letters of urgent business proposals. They are school drop outs, unemployed graduates, homeless tramps and victims of government insensitivity...
"My writing is an attempt to bear an honest witness to my time, to the experience I have as a human being, as a Nigerian, as an African. The African experience – slavery, wars, colonialism, diseases, neo-colonialism..." - Akin Adesokan
It must have been around 1984 that Wole Soyinka declared his generation, ‘the wasted generation’. The 1986 Nobel Laureate in literature had accused anyone who was 40 years old or over, of belonging to a generation that wasted the opportunities to take the country to greater heights...
Most Nigerians are still yet to come to terms with what it really means to be part of a modern world, many are still yet to grasp the essence of being a citizen in a democratic state...
This article is not about the good or bad, the right or wrong or the positive or negative aspects of political associations, friendships or rewards. It is mainly about the loyalty of humanity towards one another and the philosophies behind them...
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