Nigeria since 1999: When will the years begin to count? By Dakuku Peterside
Think of a Nigerian born in 1999, the year civilian rule came back. That person is twenty-seven now. They have never lived under a military government. But they may have finished school and not found a job. They have probably learned to plan trips around insecurity, and they almost certainly run a generator at home. […]
Haba! Bukar Ibrahim: A saint and a threesome
That’s what scandal brings. Everyone now thinks the senator is a demon. It was Saint Bukar who saw Yobe in 2000, and saw Sodom and Gomorrah. He then took upon himself to curb his people’s sinfulness and bring them closer to God.
Petroleum: Prevaricating and procrastinating realities
The German-born U.S. philosopher and historian Johanna Hannah Arendt (1906-1975) wrote on the ‘Crises of the Republic’ in 1969 that the Third World is not a reality but an ideology. Arendt’s postulation is factual to the extent that what was termed Third World tended towards the ideological divides of the cold war rather than reality.
Private agenda as state agenda
Most of us know the story of the Trojan War; how one very beautiful lady called Helen caused two neighbouring countries to go to war against each other.
Ibrahim and sex in the Guesthouse
If after two terms of fours years each as governor and ten years so far as a senator he does not care what impact his private conduct might have on his family, his constituents and the public at large, then his case is hopeless
Homage to Catalonia and separation
No country is a natural creation; all countries are artificial and many tend to behave like the Amoeba Proteus producing asexually by splitting into two parts in an endless binary fission
