AN Urhobo folklore relates the story of how the legendary tortoise (he is always invariably involved in mischievous stories in our folklore) had an amorous relationship with a married woman and was caught red-handed. He was beaten to pulp, and tied to a stick in the village square. The day was a market day, and the women going to the market at dawn, passing through the village square, rained abuses on tortoise. They spat on him and even threw sand on him as a final act of humiliation. Tortoise was finished.

Dear Dr Goodluck Jonathan, I have an urgent need to address you today. Thank you for your readiness to write about your administration; it helps when leaders write about the great and consequential decisions they made while in office.

THE year 2018 comes to a close  today and in early 2019, Nigeria’s general elections will be conducted. By the end of February, a new dispensation would have emerged in the country. Of the contenders to the Presidency, the pair of former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar and former Anambra State Governor, Peter Obi has generated much racket from a few Igbo politicians.

Radically, the new clause requires the contractor to pay for damage to any inch of pipeline under its watch; this circumspect footing is good for the nation

Nigeria is one of those postcolonial states in the world whose predicament has generated a significantly vibrant academic literature. Nigeria’s postcolonial realities have been the subject of many theories and intellectual frameworks. Scholars like Billy Dudley, Claude Ake, RotimiSuberu, BayoAdekanye, Richard Joseph, ToyinFalola, the late KunleAmuwo, Wale Adebanwi, and so many others have generated reflection points and theories that, for them, enables us to come to terms with the postcolonial realities that keep defeating the aspirations of Nigerians.