The Plumb Line
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...
Okonjo-Iweala on and on …
There is this English wise saying, "the taste of the pudding is in the eating." Nearer to the point I'm...
The glory in shame
The apostle Paul, warning the Philippian church against false preachers, says their "glory is in their shame." They take advantage...
Femi v Kemi
Femi Fani-Kayode, politician and former aviation minister, is furious that Kemi Badenoch, a Briton of Nigerian descent, says Nigeria is...
These surface-clever Americans!
It was novelist Marie Corelli who used the phrase "surface-clever Americans" to describe Americans's superficial reading of human nature. In...