Ogun, Soponna, Amadioha and co have gone soft. Only their beneficent side remains, helping Nigerians daily, quietly, in the shadows, never to be thanked, never to...
Yesterday, President Obama gave one of the most significant speeches of his life – his farewell speech. Sasha Obama, his youngest daughter, was missing in action....
The People Lead, The President Follows Behind. By Pius Adesanmi. On this plagiarism thing, I don’t know why people are blaming President Buhari for following the...
By Pius Adesanmi. Not content with opening fire on members of the Shi’a Muslim group they said blocked the route of General Buratai their boss –...
(Here is an excerpt from an essay originally written in circa 2009. The full essay made it as a chapter into my 2010 book, You’re Not...
By Pius Adesanmi “Rotimi Amaechi Begs Nigerians to be Patient” – Premium Times Unlike some of the arrogant spokespersons of the administration who talk at the...
First, he does not have the resources of Lagos. It is not fair to ridicule his dane guns vis-a-vis Ambode’s sophisticated weaponry in Lagos. If a...
Femi Adesina opens his latest interview with Punch Newspaper with these words: “It is mendacious to say that in the last one year, what Nigerians have...
I gave up on the possibility of witnessing regular electricity in Nigeria in my lifetime four years ago. I had gone to spend some time with...
(Keynote lecture delivered at the Black History Month celebration of the African and Caribbean Students Union of St. Paul’s University, Ottawa. February 26, 2016) This is...
Still on Optics: Gulliver’s Gaffe in London By Pius Adesanmi. First things first: Gulliver’s herd will destroy Gulliver. They have learnt nothing, absolutely nothing, from Jona’s...
If you look across Africa today, the postcolonized African often sees himself as an improvement on his colonized ancestors. In 2016, the postcolonized African looks at...