THE term of office of Sanusi Lamido Sanusi as Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) will end in 2014, but he has already announced that he will not seek reappointment. While this announcement may seem unusual in the Nigerian context...

WHEN last week I received an invitation to attend a graduation ceremony at the Kirikiri Maximum Prison in Lagos, I couldn’t really figure out what sort of graduation would be taking place inside the prison, more so, as the invitation did not...

YEAR on year the country rolls out drums to celebrate its liberation from the throes of NITEL’s inefficient services, with news editors jostling to describe the glorious advent of mobile telecommunications services in Nigeria, aka GSM phone...

FINALLY, the story ends. The story teller has gone to sleep. He has gone with his stories – a bagful. But then another story begins. It is telling the story according to the storyteller. It is the story of Chinualumogu Achebe and his stories. It...

SOME forty years ago, the inimitable musician and Afro beat maestro, Fela Anikulapo-Kuti, went into the studio and came out with one of the evergreen numbers titled – Authority Stealing – of which I am borrowing as part of the title of this...

THE name of Major Isaac Jasper Adaka Boro entered the lexicon of world revolutionary mythology on February 23, 1966, when his guerrilla army declared the Niger Delta Republic to secede from Nigeria. This historic event occurred a few weeks after...

AS usual, I was eager to watch ceremonies of last Wednesday’s Democracy Day on screen, particularly the aspect that had to do with the president’s speech. That had been the ritual, but my neighbourhood hadn’t had electricity supply for...

LET’S start with creating justification for the headline. Usually in the university system, the course number is calibrated to underscore the class or year of study of students. For instance, Pol 102 may designate some course for first year...

SOME things just don’t add up when it comes to the Woolwich killings. There are certainly more questions than answers. Let us examine the facts. An off-duty British soldier by the name of Lee Rigby was walking down the street in the charming and...

IF there is any move, which the Goodluck Jonathan administration has taken, which is remarkably path breaking for the Nigerian advert industry, it is the decision to do away with the awful practice of making the serving chief executive of a...