Professors Abi Adegboye and Ibiyemi Dare have written a most fascinating account on how life is lived in Western Nigeria in the book, Owanbe! Yoruba Celebrations of Life…
The sad reality of our common existence on a common platform makes it imperative to use the right terms, if only so that everyone really understands what is happening. That sad reality is that climate change is here…
As a matter of diversity and demographics which truly reflects America, it is well past time when an African American woman arrives at the hallowed halls of the US Supreme Court…
Umaru Yar’Adua’s death last week at the age of 58 was not enough, in the end, to settle the man’s debt to history. One was not surprised that the man’s passing provoked that rather predictable brand of biographical revisionism that death encourages in us…
This is an eclectic collection of short stories offering ample evidence that African literature is alive and well. New talent rises every day from the dawn of yesterday’s departure. It provokes thought…
As flags flutter at half mast following the death of Nigeria’s former president, late Musa Yar’adua, the events leading to his demise speak volumes in terms of impact and lessons for the country…
With the death of President Musa Yar’Adua and the bitter altercations that attended his last days way behind us, there is every need to remind President Goodluck Jonathan that Nigeria is a work begging for urgent attention…
Under different circumstances, could there have been a few traits in this woman that might have been a virtue? I leave you to conclude. Did she want her husband to be in power for the good of our country? No. She wanted him in power but it was for her own sake…
Some returnee Nigerians in the diaspora seem not to care a hoot about how the money will be made and are gearing up to either contest in elections or connive with others to put their cronies and paddies in government with the sole aim of getting closer to the treasury…
We cannot continue to sacrifice a lot of things just to watch 90 minutes of defensive game. As you cannot win illegally and expect fans to be satisfied, you cannot win with defensive strategy…
It obviously calls for serious concern that two states could be so easily over-run by hoodlums without a whimper of resistance from the police…