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Stealing Nigeria blind!, By Wole Olaoye

Nigeria, Jan. 12 -- Let no one tell you that Nigeria is a poor country. This is a country of bottomless lucre. Nigeria is a rich country but its citizens are poor. The few who are rich are filthy rich... Read More


Your fate in 2026, By Wole Olaoye

Nigeria, Jan. 6 -- Happy new year, everyone! This year will be consequential for many reasons, the most mundane of which is the claim by numerologists that it is a "number one" year associated with ho... Read More


Turning point!, By Wole Olaoye

Nigeria, Dec. 29 -- President Tinubu has finally belled the cat! If you don't understand the full import of Tinubu's declaration of bandits as terrorists and the subsequent bombing of an ISIS target ... Read More


Dangotequake and other quakes, By Wole Olaoye

Nigeria, Dec. 22 -- I was going to launch a campaign for President Tinubu to sack the minister of petroleum until I remembered that the petroleum portfolio is firmly under the belt of the selfsame Exc... Read More


Who wants to live under perpetual terror?, By Wole Olaoye

Nigeria, Dec. 1 -- For the first time in a long while, I saw fear in the eyes of federal legislators last week after President Tinubu's directive for the withdrawal of police orderlies attached to cer... Read More


Reinventing Nigeria, By Wole Olaoye

Nigeria, Nov. 24 -- It is not yet doomsday in Nigeria. There is still some chance to rescue us from ourselves, even if the buffeting winds of killings and maimings and outright erasure of human settle... Read More


Is Rambo coming to dinner?, By Wole Olaoye

Nigeria, Nov. 10 -- "O deity, save me if you can; if not, just leave me as you met me", Teacher Abel soliloquised when he learnt of President Trump's threat to invade Nigeria to rid the country of Isl... Read More


The 'villagification'of Festac Town, By Wole Olaoye

Nigeria, Oct. 27 -- "This is a sprawling slum with more than its fair share of brothels and shacks. This is no place to raise children at all!", said Tamuno, as he drove through Festac Town's First Av... Read More


Nigeria's undeclared war, By Wole Olaoye

Nigeria, Oct. 13 -- The United States of America recently declared that there was a religious war, specifically the persecution of Christians, going on in Nigeria. The Nigerian government promptly den... Read More