Sweet and Sour

The case for renaming my state capital, by Donu Kogbara

The case for renaming my state capital, by Donu Kogbara

This thought-provoking and slightly edited article, which first appeared in a publication called NewAfrican, was written by my friend and former BBC boss Onyekachi Wambu, a distinguished London-based author and filmmaker.  Why do we continue to cling to the colonial names bestowed on our towns and cities? We do this even when the officials after […]
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Shameful and depressing!

Shameful and depressing!

He needs to pay more attention to the anger and hunger of large chunks of the electorate

Coalition for what?

Coalition for what?

A minister in this government in 2015 boastfully told us that a serious goverment could fix power problems in Nigeria under six months

A tactful masterpiece

A tactful masterpiece

The criminal activities of the Herdsmen is being allowed to go on with apparent lack of unwillingness on the part of government to address it frontally

Democracy and change

Democracy and change

We who campaigned for Buhari and urged our compatriots to vote for him in 2015 need to be honest and admit that the overall picture is disappointing…and that Buhari is not the messiah some of us expected him to be