Nigeria: What Does The Future Hold?
As the news filter through the media spaces one always hopes to hear good news but the reverse has been the case in my country, Nigeria, in the last couple[…]
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Nigeria: Letting Our Children Live Like Dogs
We need to tackle an emergency that has our children live like dogs in the name of some higher but unconscionable goal.
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Editorial: Sir, Those were dreadful analogies in an awful speech.
by Akin Akintayo
President Goodluck Jonathan gave a speech at an interdenominational service celebrating the 51st Independence anniversary of Nigeria and it was replete with utterly dreadful analogies – it was awful, awful, awful.
Meet the Adebanjo’s – A British-Nigerian Sitcom – Review
Hilarious! She said Somehow, there are certain trends I do not react to or acknowledge until it catches the eye of certain members of my social network at which point[…]
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[…]
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[…]
Culture and Society · Politics · World Affairs
Poem: My Brother, The Jew
I’m working on a collection of poems investigating hate, fear, and loathing: Under the banner of peace and brotherhood, my body to be scattered in bits in the noisy, sudden,[…]