How can we get Nigeria right? It has been 57 years of turbulence. It has been five decades of uneasy peace and frustrated aspirations! How do we get Nigeria right?…
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Wole Soyinka, that brave and brilliant Nigerian of unassailable integrity, wrote himself into immortality. In sequence of words upon brilliants words spanning reams upon veritable reams of paper, this Iroko…
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The Nigerian senate on the 28th of September, 2017 passed a bill into law promulgating death sentence for kidnappers in Nigeria. If these are normal times, and if Nigeria is…
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Accursed is the land where the young are slaughtered for expressing a contrary opinion. That nation has betrayed tomorrow. That land is finished where the young are forbidden from questioning…
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The approach of many a Nigerian to religion is sometimes nothing but polymorphous perversity, if I could borrow Freud. Examples would bring this home to you. Many a Nigerian Pastor,…
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Self-appointed guardians of political possibility who desire to mask their untenable neutrality when moral issues are on the dock would always essay to dry-clean their consciences by asking: why don’t…
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Those were the days. It was in the final days. And those days were pregnant. History has seen such days before. They were days before catastrophe made a landfall. They…
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When memory sails across history, to reclaim landscapes of her birth, or recover epistemic citadels hijacked by imperialisms of conquering narratives; custodians of stolen legacies, and other fences in crime,…
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Commentary to mark one year of the kidnap of the Chibok girls It is one year today that over 300 girls were kidnapped from their school dormitories by members of…
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If not that Prof. Pius Adesamni is my Broda from another Mama, I would have cried havoc, and let loose my Koboko, on his ‘yansh’, for daring to accuse me…
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Societies racing to hell usually make pit-stops at irrationality to re-tank their superstitions. They stop not only to caress their indiscretions, but also to refill their pathologies. On their way …
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One cannot successfully fight what happens to be the canvass of human perception. Prejudice in itself is not wrong or negative. It is neutral. But what is absolutely wrong is …
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The theatre of global geopolitics has forever been an amoral jungle. It is a horrendous one. This is the arena, where men empowered by the force of their arms and …
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It seems that Nigerians as a people are in perpetual slavery to self-deception. We are so very allergic to reality. Truth for us is whatever consolidates our unexamined prejudices. We …
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In spite of all the filth that his hired army of revisionists are churning out, to erase his infamies from our memories, we are still solid in our knowledge and …
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How I wish that Nigerians would pay heed. We are the masters of our destiny. If we want the leadership to keep on raping us, and carting our resources off …