Nigeria Village Square

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.

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.

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.

Some lone radical extremists high on drugs commit a crime and everyone and their grandfathers becomes an extremist expert. It is particularly galling to hear some sanctimonious nonsense being spouted about by some uninformed, half educated

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

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.

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

xperts in policy and diplomacy know that there is a wide gulf of difference between a progress report or a situation report