Oyedepo and The Perils of Satire
It’s difficult to say which one was worse: the original falsehood or the misinterpretation and rebroadcast of its parody as gospel truth. The fugitive and self-acclaimed leader of the Indigenous…
It’s difficult to say which one was worse: the original falsehood or the misinterpretation and rebroadcast of its parody as gospel truth. The fugitive and self-acclaimed leader of the Indigenous…
The announcement last week of plans to migrate Nigeria’s telecoms to 5-G technology in 2020 is bound to animate conversations in the nation’s ICT community in the times ahead in…
It is a catastrophe of immense proportions that at the time Nigerians need impactful change the most, all that is set before them is just an artificial choice in the…
I didn’t want to write this week. It wasn’t writer’s block or the occasional frustration from sounding like a broken record. It was not the feeling of speaking to the…
Oby Ezekwesili caused quite a stir on Sunday on Abuja streets. Even as ruling APC and main opposition PDP continued to trade insults days after individually presenting their election manifestos…
One of the pictures that went viral last week of Ohaneze Ndigbo leader, Professor Ben Nwabueze, hugging former Vice President and presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, Atiku Abubakar,…
Back in the Athenian garden where the tradition of public debate was first documented in antiquity, the danger had long been recognized. Logicians call it red herring. Those in the…
It has almost been forgotten how Senator Bukola Saraki outmaneuvered key stakeholders in the political battlefield and in particular, the ruling All Progressives Congress, to emerge President of the Senate.…
I never knew I would be writing about rape again so soon. But then, I never reckoned on an Ochanja happening upon us so soon too. There we were in…
The Senate in the first week of November 2018 raised dust on and set up an ad hoc committee to look into how the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) used N378…