The Plumb Line
The books are adding up but life isn’t
Nigeria's accounts appear to be adding up but the quality of life, in real terms, isn't. According to the World...
People are asking questions
The civil war or Biafra War officially ended in 1970 after Chukwuemeka Ojukwu, leader of the rebellion, fled the country...
They needn’t have died
They needed not to have died the way they did. And the fuel tanker explosion in Niger State in which...
The ballot v. gun
For a long time, the battle between the ballot and the gun in Africa was uneven, the latter almost inevitably...
The White Man’s Burden
William Easterly's masterly book The White Man's Burden brutally exposes the pain that efforts by the West to "help" Africa...
2025 it is, let’s face it
Fireworks cracked the skies to usher in 2025. On New Year's Day, new babies were born across the globe, in...
‘Why send me this kind of message?’
Two days to Christmas I sent a goodwill sms text to a work colleague. I wrote "Merry Christmas ahead". Very...
Think, act differently
I refused to venture out in the searing heat of the tax reform debate. Now that "the hullabaloo is done"...
Way of the universal sufferer
Universal suffrage, political scientists tell us, is the right to vote. It is one of the pillars of democratic governance....
House that Atiku built
Thinking about writing this piece, I recalled the words of a very popular English nursery rhyme "The house that Jack...