The least awful A former dictator is a better choice than a failed president Feb 7th 2015 | From the print edition SOMETIMES there are no good options. Nigeria goes to the polls on February 14th to elect the next president, who will face problems so large—from rampant corruption to a jihadist insurgency—that they could...
The debate around Professor Charles Soludo’s many bombshells is yet to end. In fact, it gets more intriguing by the day. Initially, it was about the general mismanagement of the economy and the ‘refusal’ of the two main political parties angling for the leadership of this country to put financing at the forefront of their...
Continuing from my last article on the above subject matter, a very interesting phenomenon has crept into our consciousness. It is the new romance of Nollywood, Nigeria’s entertainment industry, with politics. Off the cuff, I can recollect that the following artistes are angling for one political office or the other: 9ice, Desmond Elliot, Julius Agwu,...
The ongoing revelations about sex-for-marks at our universities would have generated a lot of dust and been overtaken by another scandal by next week. In Nigeria it is one week, one scandal as we know. The focus so far has been on the morality of the despicable acts on the part of lecturers in...
I am not a perfectionist. I don’t believe things should be entirely spick and span. But I know sure signs of progress and regression. The Chinese built the Abuja Airport. With the tiles and lighting they put in it, the airport does shine sometimes. We are using perhaps 10% of the capacity of the airport...
We are meant to write in this forum about how the Nigerian youth, especially, can make informed decisions about the upcoming 2015 elections; how they should ensure they vote the right people; how they should try and understand the meaning and import of democracy. But sometimes, one gets depressed and feels it’s rather pointless. Will...
This debate has seen a lot of casualties. Among them James Watson (pioneer of DNA), Sam Harris, Charles Murray (The Bell Curve), William Shockley (a Nobel laureate in physics), Amy Wax (professor at U-Penn) and Nicholas Wade among others I call them victims as some of them have been stripped of titles and lampooned on...
Homer Stokes was the ‘reform’ Candidate. The prize was the governorship of the state of Mississippi. The year was circa 1934. The Great Depression had its fangs firmly dug into the American economy’s jugular, which lay bleeding profusely. Vagabonds roamed the high streets and the countryside alike. Brothers betrayed brothers, as did Washington “Wash” Hogwallop...
What else can the 2015 elections in Nigeria be about, but the economy? The phrase, which was coined by James Carville for the Bill Clinton 1992 campaign and which played a huge role in upstaging George H. W. Clinton, could not have been more relevant in our clime than it is today. Many Nigerians...
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