The youth uprising against police brutality in Nigeria has taken many by surprise. Conventional wisdom is that the youth are more likely to dance at a concert than sing a
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If you don’t know Ndubuisi (“Dele”) Udo, it is not your fault. The Nigerian police did not allow him to be great. As a teenage athlete in the 1970s, Udo
In my previous article, ahead of Nigeria’s 60th Independence Day celebrations, I tried to examine the root of Nigeria’s divisive politicking. In what many saw as a sacrilegious criticism of
We often tell ourselves a lot of beautiful lies in Nigeria. One of my favourite is the saying: “This is not the dream of our founding fathers.” By that, we
Amidst the series of tough decisions rolled out by President Muhammadu Buhari as the Nigerian economy gasps for breath under
You campaign in poetry. You govern in prose. Former governor of New York, Mario Matthew Cuomo, now of blessed memory,
Two can play the game. That should sum up the politicking surrounding the disinvitation of Mallam Nasir el-Rufai, governor of
In Nigeria, oil is definitely the apple of our eyes — we don’t need to argue over that. But this
Dr Obadiah Mailafia, a former deputy governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), shook the airwaves recently when he
When Shoprite owners announced that they were selling their stake in the Nigerian market, many of us were baffled. Initially
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