This piece was originally published in this column on December 9, 2011. Almost three years later, the prediction on the...

Aso Rock Villa. Living Room of the President’s private residence. Israeli, American, French, Chinese, Cambodian, Somalian, Sudanese, and Ghanaian security...

This keynote lecture was initially delivered as part of the opening session plenary addresses at the Fourth Annual African Renaissance...

Sometimes when an op-ed touches a raw nerve and enjoys wide circulation in Cyberia, there's the one reader who bypasses...

Trust them to sneak it in like a Lionel Messi goal. Somehow, somewhere beneath the din of #BringBackOurGirls and the...

This column is kiss-ing Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala this week. It will in fact be the shortest piece I’ve ever offered...

I am not done with Sanusi Lamido Sanusi’s post-suspension politics yet. I stated last week that he is poorly served...

Led by Nasir El Rufai, Lamido Sanusi’s throng of friends, admirers, and supporters don’t seem to like him very much....

Keynote lecture delivered at the inauguration of the Connections Week of the Caribbean and African Association of the University of...

(Keynote lecture delivered at the Obafemi Awolowo Birthday Anniversary Symposium Convened by the Obafemi Awolowo Foundation. Lagos, March 4, 2014)...

If you cannot even come together against the local terrorism of an Iyaloja in Lagos, how do you hope to...

Dis Nigeria sef! You miss a day’s news cycle and you wake up to news that you’ve missed ten lifetimes’...

In my Facebook inbox, in my gmail inbox, you have been relentless in your messages. Some of you have asked...

Aso Rock Villa. Yoruba music-themed day in one of the expansive presidential reception rooms. Ebenezer Obey is crooning from a...

"Fellow Liberians: As I speak to you today, I am most gratified by the caliber of the delegations of our...

Our columnist, Pius Adesanmi, has been blogging on Facebook since Nelson Mandela passed on on Thursday. Find three of his...

Aiye! The English language calls you “earth” or “world” because she lacks the resources to convey what you really mean....

(Excerpt from a public lecture I delivered in 2009) "There is Elizabeth Udoudo, a mother of two children aged five...

John Dramani Mahama, President of the Republic of Ghana, the location where my bread is currently buttered, sorry, where my...

In recent lectures, interviews, and essays, I have suggested consistently that our struggle for Nigeria has shifted to the psychology...

Nigeria, the country on whose account we are gathered here today for a feast of reflections, is older than me....

Mallam Nuhu Ribadu, although you are a Moslem, your cosmopolitanism is such that you surely are familiar with one of...

President Jonathan, his Commander-in-Chief, does not know; Mr. Labaran Maku, Minister of Defence, does not know; Lieutenant General Azubuike Ihejirika,...

I never come again. I still dey faraway. Make you wait till I reach where I dey goooo… I wasn’t...

(to the accompaniment of Sonny Okosun’s “Papa’s Land”) “Ol’boy, e don happen o!” “Ehn, wetin happen? Abati don get im...