The trouble with Nigeria is simply arrogance of power based on complete lack of accountability from its leaders. All else – corruption, traffic jams, police brutality etc, etc are simply …

“No, you can’t!” has, for five centuries, been the life-force of modernity’s negation of black agency. The Obama sign offers a choric, antiphonal negation of an original negation…

It is time for ordinary Nigerians, the perpetual victims of oppressive regimes, to put an end to their supplications and rise from their bended knees…

The Lagos-based popular newsmagazine ‘TheNews’, whose motto is “Defining the present, Shaping the future”, stirred a huge national controversy by its last week’s edition captioned: “The Scandal of Judges: How …

President Yar’Adua can take his chances and hope that Nigerians will accept another fixed result in 2011. Or he can lead from the front and push electoral reform as the …

I don’t think much of the intention of the Yar’Adua government to reform the electoral process. Although he had empanelled a body, with a sprinkle of some credible personages, he …

Few weeks ago, it was announced that the administration will be spending over US$600m on power, does that not mean that that the US$16b spent by the last administration is …

Quitting now would be more redemptive of Yar’Adua’s person than being remembered later as the groping undertaker of a richly endowed but seriously ill nation?

Watching Jumanji reminds me of Africa. Hoping for the best, rolling the dice every which way expecting a certain outcome, but more often than not, a Pandora’s Box seems to …

The sign of the times now demands that a growing collection of intelligent Nigerians are vocalising and constructing a historic trajectory with a self-ennobling mandate to offer holistic solutions to …