Nigeria, Sept. 7 -- When pounded yam has lumps, you re-pound the yam to achieve the required consistency. Away from all the contrived obfuscations of contemporary economic analysis, we ought to be abl... Read More
Nigeria, Aug. 31 -- . In memory of Dolly Parton When the king of Afrobeat, Fela Anikulapo-Kuti, died on 2 August, 1997, the world stood still. He had conquered the music world from Africa, reinventin... Read More
Nigeria, Aug. 24 -- Water can run uphill if there's adequate propulsion; let no one see impossibility where potentialities are hiding in plain sight. Yes, a rose by any other name will still smell as ... Read More
Nigeria, Aug. 17 -- Anyone against the universal brotherhood of humankind and the secularism of multicultural Nigeria is an infidel. So is anyone who canvasses for bloodletting as a campaign tool or t... Read More
Nigeria, Aug. 10 -- John Cardinal Onaiyekan has been known as a temperate, sagacious, and even-handed man for all his 82 years on earth. Anyone now trying to cast him in the mould of a rabble-rouser d... Read More
Nigeria, Aug. 2 -- "The man who removes a mountain begins by carrying away small stones." - Lao Tzu "You are under arrest for urinating in public," barked the police officer. "What do you mean? Am I ... Read More
Nigeria, July 19 -- I like to think that I'm a citizen of the world. Truthfully, I have not been raised to have racial or ethnic boundaries, even as I've been socialised to appreciate the beauty of my... Read More
Nigeria, July 13 -- Congratulations, Nigeria! For a change, we are singing songs of joy, not elegies for the dead. We huddle together under the embrace of hope and joy as we gather to celebrate an ext... Read More
Nigeria, June 15 -- Never poison a stream from which you may want to drink in future. That is a profound and timeless warning from the stable of our forebears. It is closely related to the modern idio... Read More