Offside Musings
The video of our crimes and punishment
Last week, numerous friends, acquaintances, even strangers bombarded me with a video that showed a mob somewhere in Lagos making...
Trumpeting the US elections
Last week, the Republican Party’s presidential candidate, Donald Trump, stunned much of the world - and, likely, himself - by...
Time to think about 2019
There’s something about this year’s presidential election in the US that is oddly reminiscent of Nigeria’s 2015 presidential polls. Many...
Truth, other casualties of war on judicial corruption
Nigeria - or the Department of State Security (DSS), to be precise - starts an ostensible war against corruption in...
Aisha Buhari schools the president
In political terms, last week was supposed to be a fair one for President Muhammadu Buhari. At his inauguration a...
Right war against judicial corruption, wrong tactics
Last week, agents of the Department of State Security (DSS) carried out a series of commando-style raids at the residences...
Obiora Udechukwu: Honouring genius, moral integrity
Last Friday, my wife and I traveled from New York City to Canton, upstate New York State, the location of...
Buhari’s new gospel on change
On May 29, 2015, Nigerians handed the ball of change to President Muhammadu Buhari (aka Captain Buhar), a self-acclaimed wizard...
Mark Zuckerberg teaches Nigerians what change is
Last week, Nigeria hosted one of the central deities in the global revolution called social media - in the name...
Nigeria: Chronicles of tragedy and absurdity
As a novelist, I frequently experience the sensation that I could never invent imaginative events that, in their tragic or...
