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An Escapade On The  Caribbean…

An Escapade On The Caribbean…

The Caribbean may not be too schooled on who is in power in Abuja but surely households here and all over the Caribbean are plastered with wall to wall posters of the electrifying Genevieve Nnaji, diamond and multi talented sister Damascus, neck bender nollywood super stars, whose mouthwatering poises like those sisters from the Niger bend, continue to gasp their audience and cause civil wars among men.

Babangida: Shall we hear the General?

Babangida: Shall we hear the General?

ON 26 August, 2010 it would be exactly seventeen years to the day since Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida or IBB, as he is otherwise known, ‘stepped aside’ as Nigeria’s military leader.

Agenda of electoral reforms 2011, beyond (2)

Agenda of electoral reforms 2011, beyond (2)

THE Elections were not primarily for selection of persons for office in the Colonial Government but for the transfer of ownership of the British Colonial Estate from the British Government to Nigerian Colonial Parties organised to contest the elections.

How to win the World Cup

How to win the World Cup

By Paul Bassey I am not joking. I want to share with my readers today, tips on how to win the World Cup. In doing so, I know that Lars Lagerback is likely to peep and steal some ideas. Well and good.

Re: Achebe’s “what Nigeria means to me”

Re: Achebe’s “what Nigeria means to me”

A DEAR friend, Professor Ogwo E. Ogwo, last week forwarded an interesting article he saw on the pages of The Guardian of London to my mailbox. It was written by Nigerian-born literary legend, Professor Chinua Achebe and entitled: “What Nigeria means to me”. I had not even completed reading it when I decided I was going to write a rejoinder discussing what Nigeria means to me against the general flow of Achebe’s reflections.