Before It All Unravels
Can one mourn too much? Are there circumstances in one’s life that one ought not to give up on? Are there bounds to the weight a camel can carry? Must[…]
Marwa’s Miscalculation – Salisu Suleiman
Brigadier General Mohammed Buba Marwa (ret.) needs little introduction, considering his visibility on the Nigerian political scene for more than 20 years. It started with his appointment as governor of[…]
Tokunbo Cars and Terror Funding: A Working Example – Feyi Fawehinmi
Conspiracy theories will always be popular. But in Nigeria they are more popular than they should normally be for various reasons – bad education, religion, ‘legacy’ of colonialism. The problem[…]
Jonathan, Politics, and the War on Terror – Salisu Suleiman
When over 200 secondary school girls, whose parents had been assured of their safety, were brazenly abducted from the Government Girls Secondary School, Chibok, Borno state, the federal government was[…]
Nigeria – What Manner of Leaders
There is no question but that the quality of our national leadership has deteriorated of late. The consequences of these are particularly telling at the economic level. Despite the roseate[…]
Editorial | Issue #27: Of Magic Words
Earlier in the week, poet and scholar Niyi Osundare penned an evocative piece of tribute to the departed Colombian writer Garcia Marquez whose work was described as where “the fantastic[…]
In Conversation with Bassey Ikpi
by Kola Tubosun I first came across her work on YouTube, a couple of years ago, where she performed a number of hair-raising poems at the now discontinued DefJam series.[…]
Three Poems
by Femi Morgan Spats of Shit If you ask me I have lost my will To write my reportorial My Face is reddened by it My ears echoes[…]
