2016 November

When I was observing my National Youth Service in Calabar, Cross River State in 1991, I noticed a phenomenon in which some young corps members like me did their primary assignment in more than one organisation. There was the one organisation where they had to report daily – if they cared enough – and others...

Driving to work this morning I was thinking about the looming famine. According to the government, there will be famine in Nigeria by January 2017, “if something drastic is not done”. Being an official communication straight from the horse’s mouth (the Presidential Spokesman), perhaps we should take the statement seriously. Our people say that a...

The debate raged last week about Governor Ambode’s attempt to recruit 1,000 Nigerian university graduates as bus conductors in Lagos State. Ordinarily, Ambode is one of Nigeria’s ‘performing’ governors, and he has effectively and shockingly shaken off the legendary shadow of Raji Fashola, who is himself getting demystified by the problems of the three ministries...