Not since the regaining of liberty by Nelson Mandela and the displacement and replacement of minority rule by majority rule in South Africa, have I felt this exhilarated by the occurrence and outcome of a political event…
The Babangida brand belongs in the ilk of Africa’s better forgotten peonage to domestic tyrants and internal colonizers. Why defile the Obama week by evoking one of the terrible names that have constricted the Nigerian political space beyond the reach of any putative Obama?
The fight against corruption is not an easy fight, as I have observed and noted during my travel to Nigeria and interaction with the main players of the fight. The officials charged with this task are forever wary of threats to their lives and the threat of removal if the corrupt persons have their way through lobbying…
A couple of weeks ago, you raised alarm over the request by certain persons in the state who wanted you to share the common wealth with them. Presumably, these were, and are, persons who are steeped in the tradition of illicit government patronage…
A couple of weeks ago, you raised alarm over the request by certain persons in the state who wanted you to share the common wealth with them. Presumably, these were, and are, persons who are steeped in the tradition of illicit government patronage…
Nigerians had already started to think that with Obama in the White House, visa problems don end, aid will come pouring in, and Green Cards will flood our streets…
Obama’s election may not signal the end of the Blackman’s struggle for economic, social and political emancipation, but rather it opens another vista of self-consciousness, of pride and self-awareness for the black man…
As the Obama Presidency makes its final, tortuous and sure-footed journey from dreamland to reality, it is desirable that Nigerians and Africans must package what they actually want from that presidency…
Kingsley is a bookworm. The rows of books on my shelf astounded and overawed his inquisitiveness. Then his eyes brightened and his usual boom-boom voice came alive. Then in a very audacious move, he badgered into my one-roomed apartment wanting to know who amassed such unspeakable treasure in Lawanson…
Encomium/Kennis Music Green and White Party: How Do You Celebrate Nigeria?
by Jibril Sado
by Jibril Sado
I write as a Nigerian who has observed with dismay how we have inadvertently allowed music as a form of art to undermine the fight against Advance Fee Fraud in general and the Internet form of it, in particular…
It is difficult if not impossible to find a politician, whether early in their career or a political office veteran, who has not given in to political pressure, special interest groups, lobbyists, or the good-old-boy-network practice of you-help-my-cause-and-I’ll-help-yours…