In the BusinessDay of January 12, 2010 December 25, 2009: A Nigerian-born male, with secondary education in Togo and university education in London, said to have been radicalized during his university days in London, and to have been further radicalized in Yemen, attempted to detonate an ‘incendiary device’ that he had sown into his underwear before getting on a flight [...]

Among other things, I can understand why so many Nigerians should think that ‘District 9′ shows how deeply some South Africans detest us. The lumpen elements in the film are called ‘Nigerians’ – and the loathing is heaped much heavily on them. Throughout the story, there is not one moment in which they are invested with anything humane in their [...]

It appears the entire world paid close attention to the recent Ekiti elections. News outlets from the BBC, to the Financial Times and Reuters, to papers across the world reported on the electoral tension and eventual confusion and violence which marred the process. While these news organizations and many of their readers could observe these events detached, an incredible amount [...]