Okey Ndibe

Patience Jonathan, aka Dame Patience, aka First Lady, aka Dr. Chief (Mrs.), aka Mama Peace, has emerged as the standard...

Even at the tamest of times, Nigeria can be an infuriating address. In an election season, it becomes maddening, a...

Today, despite massive expansions in educational institutions, those we characterize as Nigeria’s political “chieftains”, “stakeholders”, “transformers” and “political icons” are...

The displaced, disenfranchised voters of the northeast of Nigeria present a conundrum.

Let me be clear: whether “Continuity” or “Change” carries the day on February 14, the real name of the thing...

Anueyiagu has departed, but here’s the consolation: he is imperishable. He will live on in the minds of those who...

On January 7, two gunmen stormed—later identified as Islamist activists of Algerian descent—stormed the editorial headquarters of “Charlie Hebdo,” an...

What one finds frightening is that many Nigerians who graduated from universities and other institutions of “higher learning” are among...

Nigeria’s darkness seemed, quite simply, to be darkening.

I believe that too many Nigerians resort to ethnic baiting precisely because they are so thoroughly impoverished, so ground down,...