Nigeria Village Square

Grandpa in Politics: The Necessity of Sober Reflection

The good news for Professor Ango Abdullahi is that no Nigerian who has followed his history of public utterances since the 1980s runs the risk of accusing him falsely of being blessed with the ability to place reflection before speech.

NATION BUILDING: HOW WE MISSED THE PLOT

It took me by surprise. Well, since it is the refrain that Nigeria’s unity is not negotiable it was unusual for someone so highly placed to say the British should have seen so clearly how different we are as peoples, North and South of Nigeria.

Jonathan’s Half-Time: Club Down, Manager Out

May 6th 2013 would make it 3 years since Goodluck Ebele Jonathan became president of Nigeria. As an elected government, the administration would be celebrating its second anniversary next week.

What Happens After (During) the State of Emergency?

Many who have quite rightly praised President Goodluck Jonathan’s declaration of a state of emergency in the north-eastern states of Borno, Adamawa and Yobe — strongholds of Boko Haram’s wasting war against a secular Nigeria — will be forgiven for

The Achebe I knew

Indiscipline pervades our life so completely that one may be justified in calling it the condition par excellence of contemporary Nigerian society”- Chinua Achebe, The Trouble with Nigeria.

Who Are The Yoruba People? (Part 2)

“The Yoruba are ancestors of the black Cushite migrants and settlers that did not go to Africa…”