Since African governments have decided not to endow their own people with love, the rest of the world has chosen that Africans will not get the benefit of international law.
Whatever supports itself with a gun is an enemy.
It takes an outsider to prod us to think outside the box to upend staid traditions, subvert taken-for-granted assumptions, and upturn settled, ossified, and faulty certainties.
It’s hard to ignore the echoes of disarray from the APC tent or to pretend that when the rains fall, it would be APC’s problem alone.
No one knew I was coming home, so I was not surprised that no one was there to pick me up.
With this many sovereigns, folks may be forgiven for wondering whether Nigeria is capable of forging a country.
A Yohanna Audu or an Esther Ladi Jatau as president or vice president would do enormous good for the self-esteem and sense of belonging of millions of northern Christians.
Buhari’s final test and legacy may be in the quality of the succession he emplaces for Nigeria.
As a former KGB agent, Putin was a student of history. To understand Vladimir Putin, we have to go back to 1682 to understand Peter the Great.
Democracy may depend on numbers but Nigeria’s numbers are hardly good for democracy.
