There's a lot of angst and rage about the current situation in Nigeria on NVS. Hardly a day goes by without someone writing an article or making a post about how terrible things are, how Nigerian leaders are running the nation aground and how we need to change. Of course, the trouble is that change isn't an easy thing - it would take lots of money, manpower and time to effect the change that many Nigerians desire.

But what IF change was so easy to bring about? What if all someone...

Of recent, I've been spending more time on the Square and away from the site. This is partly because of the dearth of interesting articles on the front page. It seems that most authors pick topics which have been done to death already, or contain ideas that are fairly obvious to most people.

There's no better example of this phenomenon than the deluge of articles that has followed the election of Barack Obama as US president. At the last count, there were nearly two dozen of such...