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Opinion

February 12, 2022

Common ancestor of American Ebonics and West African Pidgin English

Centuries of separation haven’t severed our linguistic and cultural links. That’s fascinating.

Map of America and Africa
February 12, 2022

Nigeria and the price of sovereign innumeracy

There was a national census in 1973 which, as Karl Maier recalls, proved to be “farcical.” The results were never published.

Nigerian Map
February 9, 2022

Has Africa attained independence?

With the way African nation-states are falling over Chinese loans, I foresee an Africa that will relapse into Chinese colonial territory in less than thirty (30) years from now.

February 7, 2022

Tribute to Igbobi College at 90

Igbobi College had strong traditions and a great culture.

Igbobi College
February 6, 2022

Igba Boi, Ekekwe and BBC’s distortion of Igbo apprentice scheme

The BBC was lousy in minimising the story of Ekekwe’s paper as a scheme forged out of a war that produced millionaires.

February 6, 2022

Nnamdi Kanu, Sunday Igboho and the rise of Yahooism

We are coming to terms with the truth that those who are “fighting” for the so-called freedom of their people are in reality hoodwinking those same people.

February 5, 2022

Celebrating man who made an American a Nigerian

People who found out that my father-in-law is Igbo used to say my criticism of the Buhari regime was inspired by connubial solidarity with the Igbo.

Engr. Edwin Chukwumezie Erinne
January 30, 2022

Ernest Adegunle Shonekan and Nigeria’s unending tale of three masters

In Nigeria, history repeats itself over and over under three masters.

Ernest Adegunle Shonekan
January 29, 2022

Clarity on Tinubu’s age and postsecondary education

Bola Tinubu needs to come clean about the true state of his health if he wants to be taken seriously as a contender for the presidency in 2023.

Bola Tinubu