Greetings my people. I can be partly honest with you and say that the month of May came and left me with little time to write an article but let[…]
Category: General
Mourning the Double Tragedy of a Black Sunday
The Mangled remains of the plane, crashed into a storey building. Photo Courtesy: Sahara Reporters As I struggle feebly, to pull myself together from my misery and muster the vestiges[…]
Memory Junction
Your first gray hair, turning 30…40….50! At some point in our lives, we start experiencing things that seemed so far off. As these experiences come and go, they fade into[…]
Analysis · General · Politics · World Affairs
Neither the Washington Nor the Beijing Consensus: What Then?
It seems Africans in the Diaspora generally and Nigerians in particular have reached a saturation point where any public event which features high profile African guests or speakers especially[…]
The Center of Excellence
So it’s the end of the month again, the time when I write an article and ask people to read it. (I’ve come to accept the humility required to be[…]
Nigeria’s Porous Borders in Pictures
I have always heard that Nigeria’s borders are porous, but I never quite grasped the magnitude of the “porousness” until I received these pictures below of the Nigeria-Niger border at[…]
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Nigeria, Boko Haram and Pervasive Distrust
At around 01.30 am in the wee hours of Tuesday 13th March, while checking local Nigerian and global news as I usually do before heading to bed, I came across[…]
Nigeria: Reviewing Ms. Arunma Oteh’s Allegations
Allegations of bribery and corruption made on live television at a legislative committee show some of the problems with our democracy that needs urgent fixing.
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Beaming the Spotlight Where it Matters Most
With tears streaming down his cheeks, Vladmir Putin outgoing Prime Minister and now President-elect of Russia declared with great conviction, that his victory in the just concluded presidential elections was the outcome[…]