Democracy Is Not Perfect
Many Nigerians are seething with rage because the election did not go as expected. On the day that I wrote this article, one of the trending videos on WhatsApp in…
Tunde Chris Odediran studied and practiced journalism in Nigeria. He is now a Technical Communications and Information Technology professional in the United States.
Many Nigerians are seething with rage because the election did not go as expected. On the day that I wrote this article, one of the trending videos on WhatsApp in…
The politics of identity which millions of Nigerians voters swallowed going into the 2023 presidential election is a dangerous prescription capable of ripping apart the country’s fledging but maturing democracy.…
Nigerians go to the polls in a few days, thinking that the greatest threat to the election is either the scarcity of the naira or automotive fuel, but that would…
Having devised all sorts of formulas to survive, ordinary Nigerians have become so indestructible that they were almost invisible in their suffering over the new naira notes. The people hardest…
I may not know who the President of Nigeria will be after the forthcoming election, but I am certain the winner will be a distinguished member of Nigeria’s billionaires’ club.…
Age has nothing to do with being a good president and the argument made by former President Olusegun Obasanjo in his New Year Day missive to Nigerians on the type…
Someone wrote in a US newspaper years ago that because the North Korean dictator Kim Jong-Un was fat while his country starved, he was responsible for the undernutrition of his…
The World Cup goes on in Qatar without the self-stamped giant of Africa, Nigeria! Its long-term rival, Ghana, snatched the ticket in the final match played at Abuja in January,…
You may easily dismiss this as an unserious article, but this is one of the most serious conversations I can have with readers. I write to ask those who are…
As foreign missions rushed their citizens out of Abuja on the warning of possible terrorist attacks, Nigerians, who had nowhere to go, could only hope for the best. When the…