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Nigeria: Celebrating Honour Amongst Thieves
A public servant jailed for mismanaging public funds gets honoured on release from jail when he should have been shunned and ostracised.
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Growing up to ’11: A Nigerian Story
My first memories of elections in Nigeria takes me to June 1993 when the biggest political event of my generation took place. Before then, the other most memorable event I[…]
Of Progressives and Ideologues: A Good-humoured View of South West Politics
Fayemi and the Usual Suspects: The evil that walked the rugged landscapes of Ekiti was not Segun Oni. The evil was a brand of regressive political system that President Obasanjo[…]
General · Nigeria@50 · Politics
Nigeria at 50: Looking to the Future
Through the aspirations of the day of independence in 1960 we look beyond 2010 for a new Nigeria.
Culture and Society · Politics
A Lunch in Jos
It didn’t take me long to locate him at Rayfield where he teaches in a private school. Once upon a time, he was in Riyom, a local government that has[…]
Culture and Society · Politics
June 12: Snow White Looked in the Mirror and Saw Shango
I don’t know which to pick between May 29 and June 12 as the worst date to look forward to in our political calendar. I don’t know which is, to[…]
Culture and Society · Politics
On Citizenship in Nigeria
Simon Adebola Every nation has laws by which it abides. The constitution is the basis for the legal systems that exist in each country. Each country’s constitution is equally binding[…]
Beyond Gadaffi: Nigeria, Federalism and Other Quicksands
Though identity, as a category of self perception and self-determination, is considered unhelpful and mischievous because of its tendency towards entrenching xenophobia and ghetto mentality in globalised discourse, but one[…]