Our Politicians Have Gone Mad Again!
Nigerian politicians are ever so predictable. They’re driven by their personal and almost always selfish interests. It doesn’t matter what’s at stake at any time, it’s always about what they…
Nigerian politicians are ever so predictable. They’re driven by their personal and almost always selfish interests. It doesn’t matter what’s at stake at any time, it’s always about what they…
Not until Muntader al-Zaidi’s act of suicidal daring was the world jolted to shoe-throwing as a form of Arab expression of deep social anger. Visiting President George Bush was only…
If you walk by sight you cannot help approaching Saturday’s presidential election with a heavy heart. The candidates of the two major parties, Muhammadu Buhari of the All Progressives Congress…
The ugly monkey is full of wiles and revels in iniquities. As the magic-realist tale from the folklore common in the coastal communities of Edo north goes, the comical primate…
On February 16, Nigerians will be voting for one or the other, literally. Inarguably, more than 90 per cent of eligible voters will be casting their ballot either for the…
These days Nigeria is treated as either the continent’s worst joke or the world’s laggard for democracy. From Nairobi to Brussels and from London to Washington, we’re getting lengthy lectures…
I didn’t notice the squirrel until later. The Allied Congress Party of Nigeria (ACPN) actually has a squirrel as its logo, but I didn’t make out the silhouette until the…
An otherwise solid moral argument against Justice Walter Onnoghen is, alas, weakened by those uninformed enough to draw a parallel with the Ayo Salami affair, to justify the suspension of…
At this rate, President Muhammadu Buhari may beat former military President General Ibrahim Babangida to the record of collecting the most abusive letters from a former president. Olusegun Obasanjo’s letters…
It appeared odd, if not outright farcical. Reappearing after disappearing briefly from the dinning-table that memorable morning in 2001, the steward miraculously produced a medium jar of Milo, to the…