We know it as truth that in Africa, any time mothers decide to cry out on any issue, it is always difficult to deny them an ear…

That the Nigerian economy has lost more than one billion dollars a month and hundreds of thousands of barrels of crude a day since 2006 due to unrest in the …

 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?