All of the great leaders have had one characteristic in common: it was the willingness to confront unequivocally the major anxiety of their people in their...
Adesuwaaaaaa!!!! My sister screams in an email to me while I was hosting the media chat with president Goodluck Ebele Jonathan, saying ‘why are you making...
I first came across Christiane Amanpour on CNN in the late 90s when she covered the wars in Sarajevo. I was moved by the risk she...
Before the rise of Boko Haram, if you had traveled through the northern hemisphere of Nigeria and seen the millions of jobless youths, idle families and...
One thing is certain; no one knows where this country is headed. Not the president, the media, the international community or the people on the street....
By Godwin Onyeacholem With many years of uncertainties as the hallmark of her wobbly existence, Nigeria has once again arrived at a critical juncture – that...
By Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Last week, Victor, a carpenter, came to my Lagos home to fix a broken chair. I asked him whom he preferred as...
Chukwuma Soludo, former Governor Central Bank of Nigeria, article titled “Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala and the missing trillions,” has rightly generated a lot of buzz in both social...
By Aloy Ejimakor In the interest of full disclosure, let me say from the outset that this piece is nonpartisan. It is, instead, an apolitical academic...
So the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) decided to postpone the 2015 elections with just seven days to go? What a shame. Since January 2014 —...
By Ogundana Michael Rotimi Finally, the Presidential election has been postponed, a new date; March 28, has been fixed. Whether some sets of people are responsible...
Collapsing oil prices are dealing a crippling blow to Africa’s economic giant, Nigeria, which is simultaneously absorbing a second shock: U.S. refineries once purchased as much...
