The President I Want, By Chimamanda Adichie
Some of my relatives lived for decades in the North, in Kano and Bornu. They spoke fluent Hausa. (One relative taught me, at the age of eight, to count in Hausa.) They made planned visits to Anambra only a few times a year, at Christmas and to attend weddings and…
A troubled Nigeria and the Haramites Of Boko, By Femi Fani-Kayode
My worst fears have been confirmed and sadly the Haramites of Boko have struck again. Another terrible bomb blast has taken place in Abuja and many innocent people have been butchered, slaughtered and maimed. At the last count the number of those killed is no less than 39 despite attempts…
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Women, Leadership and the Change we Need, By Taiwo Odukoya
And the Lord God said, “It is not good that man should be alone; I will make him a helper comparable to him.” (Genesis 2:18) All over the world, social and cultural factors have inhibited many women’s leadership has been replicated to a large extent in Nigeria. Resultantly, women are deliberated excluded from…
Article of Faith: Building a house on the sand, By Femi Aribisala
My house cost a fortune to build: one billion naira to be precise. (more…)
Goodluck to northern elders, By Pius Adesanmi
Trust them to sneak it in like a Lionel Messi goal. Somehow, somewhere beneath the din of #BringBackOurGirls and the bang of Nyanya II, Ogbeni Usman Bugaje and the usual suspects who love to irritate the rest of us with their insufferable arrogance whenever they assemble under that nebulous umbrella,…
Why Boko Haram may have kidnapped Chibok’s schoolgirls, By Ryan Cummings
Less than 24 hours after an explosion ripped through the Nyanya Motor Park in Nigeria's capital, Abuja, reports of another act of terror filtered in from the country's north east. On the morning of 15 April, a group of unidentified gunmen attacked Chibok, a settlement located near the Cameroonian border in…
Why South-East Should Stop Agitating for Additional State , By Mobolaji Aluko
Ignoring Abuja, our Federal Capital Territory (FCT), there are thirty-six (36) states among the six (6) "informal" geo-political zones in the country, which means that on average, each geo-zone has six (6) states. However while the North-West geo-zone actually has seven (7) states in its embrace, the South-East zone has…
Boko Haram, the Nigerian government and the agony of the Kanuris, By Eric Teniola
The Kanuris, under the platform of Borno, Yobe Peoples Forum, recently addressed the media and lamented the situation in the Kingdom of El-Kanemi and what they are experiencing under the current climate of Boko Haram insurgency in the North-East geopolitical zone. They alleged that the Nigerian Presidency - the imperial…
The Failure of a People, By Hannatu Musawa
It is with great anguish and heavyheartedness I’m penning down this article on the yet to be rescued abducted teenage Chibok girls. As a parent and a Nigerian, a human, it is difficult for one not to feel a profound sense of responsibility in voicing out ones melancholy and distress over…
Are Nigerians afraid of their own history? By Tolu Ogunlesi
“We need to understand one thing: History will always be contested territory.” (more…)
