Nigeria is a trying environment for private businesses, as well as citizens. When overzealous federal bureaucrats play foul with electric...

"Through his visual art, poetry, scholarship and social engagements, Udechukwu has inspired countless people."

Wole Soyinka turned 80 at the very beginning of this week. For many, that milestone must seem incredible.

Something really, really dangerous has happened in Nigeria. It is the reduction of human life to the scale of an...

For me, one of the most disconcerting facts about public discourse in Nigeria—including intellectual exchanges—is the rampant, if not default,...

Much is often made of the hundreds of billions of dollars that Nigeria has frittered away since huge deposits of...

There is a sense in which the name of the malaise afflicting Nigeria is Biafra. I have argued before—and I...

Now that the United States, Britain, and some European countries may be stepping in to help rescue the Chibok girls,...

The All Progressives Congress (APC) is now frequently called Nigeria’s main opposition party or group. Which designation raises the question:...

If anybody wanted proof that Nigerian “leaders” do not occupy the same space and time as most of their country...

That Nigeria has passed South Africa as Africa’s largest economy—when calculated by Gross Domestic Product—is almost old news.  The coverage...

Dear President Jonathan:   We, the more than 200 victims of Boko Haram’s latest savage bomb attacks, feel we must...

No, I didn’t mean to tease you, dear reader. I didn’t want to leave the impression that Nigeria has magically...

I was going to title this piece, “Why is Abba Moro Still a Minister?” but changed my mind. In the...

One of my most revered friends rang me a few days ago after reading last week’s column. He wanted, first,...

I’m often taken aback when some of my Nigerian readers respond to my column by noting a failure to offer...

For those unaware of its source, I might as well state from the outset that the title of this column...

President Goodluck Jonathan is notorious for moving at slower than the speed of a snail when called upon to address...

I have had several sad conversations in the past two weeks with friends who, like me, are from Anambra State....

Nigeria’s (misnamed) Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has released the schedule for the 2015 set of general “elections.” The presidential...

On December 9 and 10, several websites and newspapers published a startling letter that Governor Sanusi Lamido Sanusi of the...

Odds are that Iyabo Obasanjo is at peace with herself, after pouring out her soul. She must have her own...

Numerous political pundits stipulated that the recent governorship election in Anambra would serve as a gauge of things to come...

I’m writing this piece first thing on Sunday morning, so I don’t know yet which candidate and party won –...

There’s a relationship between the quality of a people’s imagination – their dream of themselves – and their material condition....