How President-Elect Buhari Can Achieve A Fair Deal For Victims of Corruption, By Kolawole Olaniyan
Today the level of confidence in Nigeria is remarkably high, and President-Elect General Muhammadu Buhari has been described by many as embodying ‘the promise of change’. Hardly surprising given that one of the reasons he became President-Elect is because of his apparent zero-tolerance for corruption. Nigerians have indeed continued to…
Wole Soyinka and a Fabricated Controversy, By ‘Tope Oriola
The venue was Afribank, Oke-Ilewo, Abeokuta, Ogun state. My father had sent me to the bank to make the type of withdrawal a high school student could handle — well, in those “non-open-eye” days. I had instructions to say hello to the bank manager, a friend of my father. There…
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The Youth and the Used, By Tola Adeniyi
I have always been fascinated by the words ‘youth’ and ‘used’, especially in their onomatopoetic rendition as they relate to the youths of Nigeria and their fathers and grandfathers who still delude themselves that they are young, and have refused to yield grounds for the young ones. About twenty-five years…
True Transformation of the Nigerian Nation and Economy: Five Quick Steps, By Oluwafemi Akinfolarin
I recently watched a video of an African American preacher sermonising on the place of the black man in governance. The man has a radical concept. He believes that the black man is not suited to govern. He sees South Africa as a prime example of a country showing irreparable…
The Extremists (Khawaarij) Methodology of Forbidding Evil, By Imam Murtada Gusau
First Sermon: In the Name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful Alhamdu Lillah. Indeed, all praise is due to Allah. We praise Him and seek His help and forgiveness. We seek refuge with Allah from the evil within ourselves and from our wrongdoings. He whom Allah guides, no…
How my family hates me, plots my downfall despite my generosity, By Emmanuel Adebayor
Famous footballer, Emmanuel Adebayor, has taken to Facebook to pour out his heart over the long-drawn family crisis he has been having. It is a touching story. Read full text below. I have kept these stories for a long time but I think today it is worth sharing some of…
Let Them Eat Cake: The Five Stages of the Jonathan Administration’s Grief, By Oluwafemi Akinfolarin
I have a mental picture of the last few weeks in the Presidential Villa in Abuja. People walking around in a daze, unable to believe they would soon have to leave their cozy offices and financial sinecures. Officials forgetting to eat their meals. The president’s wife, refusing to leave the…
Tamas Aczel: A Writer Who Inspired Me, By Okey Ndibe
One of the special joys of my time in the MFA programme at the University of Massachusetts was taking a fiction workshop with Tamas Aczel. It was during the spring semester of 1993. Aczel’s teaching style — in academic lingo, his pedagogy — was the first thing that got me…
New Wave Change Should Lead To Cloud Nine, By Steve Ayorinde
The Ethiopian aviation handlers are in love with Cloud Nine expression. It’s the right phrase to describe Ethiopian Airlines’ Business Class lounge. But it did not take long, during my trip to Addis Ababa, the Ethiopian capital, last week to see why that expression also aptly captures the remarkable feats…
On Committees: This Goat Must Earn That Yam, By Pius Adesanmi
It was not really President Jonathan’s fault in the beginning. He inherited a structure, a mental attitude of congenital national laziness which reduced the essence of the Nigerian state to food that he must distribute to sustain a mad system of patronage and prebends. In fact, credit must be given…
