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On TV, young people who ought to be in school are being paraded
as crime suspects… Meanwhile, the children of our leaders are seen in
society magazines at graduation ceremonies in American and British universities…
Poverty and a crippled economy have forced hundreds of thousands of children out of Nigerian schools into the streets to fend for themselves and their families...
Driving to work this morning, I was ruminating over an e-invitation I
received yesterday requesting me to submit the title of the African book
that has had the most impact on my life...
Yoruba politics can inhabit the center in its own right but that is only if its leaders stop the public exchanges of unpleasantness as characterized in the last four years...
Our values and beliefs are the invisible psychological softwares that have the capacity to influence the direction and the limit of the intellectual, cultural and social development of a people...
Oh ye Nigerians, you must learn to be appreciative because it cost your wonder-working government a whole seven noisy years of loud promises, invaluable efforts, sacrificial work, sleepless nights and the whopping sum of nearly three billion dollars to bring you this amount of blinding darkness...
Can we move on from this loose talk of winning team? Can we stop the loose talk of South-North presidency, East-West candidacy? Can we start seriously digesting and probing the depth of thought and creativity that goes into the programs of these would-be candidates?
Unlike the 'full-time' hip-hop musicians, the Nigerian writer has to keep a 9-5 job to keep hunger pangs at bay. He has no access to government or private funds to attend literary conferences, arts residencies or fellowships...
The Nigerian government, in 2008, spent about 500 billion naira on security in the Niger Delta region. So far, in 2009, about the same amount has been spent – excluding the 300 billion that has been spent to bribe and pacify power-brokers and some sections of the Militant groups. What a dumb strategy!
With the current spate of things in Nigeria, our trademark cultures are fast going the way of dinosaurs as extinction is imminent, and imbibing foreign culture is fast becoming the order of the day. Is it a good way to re-brand?
I want to ask the men and women that stroll along the corridors of power in the various tiers of government, just one question: Are you all blind? I am perplexed that no individual in the National Assembly has made the reformation of the Nigerian Police Force his or her sole legislative objective…
It was an Inaugural Lecture with a difference. The...
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