Both the Peoples Democratic Party and the All Progressives Congress appear to have settled on obfuscation as the name of the game in this election season....
By Okey Ndibe ([email protected]) In many nations, whenever it is felt that hard times have befallen a people, elections represent a real opportunity for contemplating a...
Two Saturdays ago, I had the privilege of giving a keynote at an international conference organized at the Senate House of the University of London to...
Last Wednesday—the 54th anniversary of Nigeria’s Independence—was a day of silence for me. I didn’t have the stomach to leave any comment on Facebook or...
This September, I was determined to scour for signs that Nigeria was moving in a good direction. I was able to count one solid, uplifting sign:...
I had just returned home from dropping off a friend at a train station last Saturday (September 6) when I read a terse text message: “Dimgba...
There’s a new business in Nigeria. It’s the business of drafting President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan to present himself for reelection. A group called Transformation Ambassadors of...
The dreaded Ebola virus and Boko Haram represent different faces of two most dire crises currently plaguing Nigeria. The former is a natural contagion, the latter...
At the beginning of August, President Goodluck Jonathan appointed Suleiman Abba as Nigeria’s new Inspector General of Police. On the day of his formal investiture as...
For me, one of the extraordinary treasures of being a columnist are the emails—and the occasional phone call—I receive from readers who are moved to react...
The recent exchanges between Professor Okey Ndibe, an intense columnist and essayist and Bishop Matthew Hassan Kukah, a cerebral clergyman and loquacious intellectual of Sokoto Arch-Diocese...
Last week, as part of festivities celebrating the 80th birthday of Nobel laureate Wole Soyinka, Bishop Matthew Kukah of the Catholic Diocese of Sokoto delivered a...
