By Donu Kogbara LAST week, I mentioned a former deputy governor of Lagos State, Alhaja Sinatu Ojikutu, who wants to renounce her citizenship and move abroad because of Tinubu’s emergence as the President-elect. Bode George, a former military governor and veteran politician, has for the same reason, also expressed a desire to emigrate. It is […]

By Donu Kogbara AS far as many Nigerians are concerned, Wole Soyinka, our globally renowned Nobel Laureate and most venerable man of letters, seriously undermined his reputation when he launched a verbal assault on Datti Baba-Ahmed, Peter Obi’s running mate. Baba-Ahmed had, on a Channels Television programme that was screened in March, expressed the view […]

By Donu Kogbara I ALWAYS feel melancholy on Good Friday because it is an extremely painful date in the Christian calendar – the day on which my Lord Jesus Christ was crucified and subjected to unimaginable anguish. Today, I am experiencing immense sadness for an additional reason, being that I cannot get Nigeria’s tragic underbelly […]

By Donu Kogbara NIGERIAN elections are globally notorious. Disgraceful norms include violence, ballot-snatching, tribalistic and religiously bigoted hate speech, intimidation (including ridiculous witchcraft threats to terrify the gullible and superstitious), underage voting, multiple thumb-printing by individuals, fraudulent amendment of results sheets and bribery of Electoral Commission and security personnel. But some states are a lot […]

By Donu Kogbara RECENT events remind me of a contradictory saying I first heard as a child: “Be careful what you wish for because you might get it.” The English nun – a teacher at my convent school – who directed this warning at me credited it to an ancient Chinese sage who was, she […]