Barely a month after an iroko in the African literary forest fell, a reference to Ngugi Wa Thiongo, there has been the fall of another iroko. He is Charles Nnolim, a foremost critic in Afric... Read more
By Adagbo Onoja A flight into academicism on the late Prof Claude Ake at this point in time could be validly charged with insensitivity and irresponsibility to the psychological and material... Read more
By Adagbo Onoja This is not a rejoinder to Prof Jibrin Ibrahim’s January 18th, 2024 opinion titled “The First Coup”. His opinion only serves this piece as the peg for a caution agains... Read more
By Adagbo Onoja Irrespective of fragmentation and disaffection at home, there are certain issues that enjoy consensus in Nigerian politics, regardless of the government in power. It would be... Read more
By Adagbo Onoja A well-known Nigerian Left activist not seen for hours is a matter for concern. In this case, it was for days. To that extent, the story about Dr Dipo Fashina missing in the... Read more
Dear Mister President, Permit me, Mister President, to cut off the congratulations from this epistle. Apart from Cardinal Onaiyekan’s moratorium on that, (about which Senator George Akume ha... Read more
At no other time and on no other issue has punditry become such a dangerous pursuit as on the outcome of the recent presidential poll in Nigeria. The danger of being (mis)read either as an ‘... Read more
It must, indeed, be great that, in spite of the tribulations tormenting Nigerians, the rump of the Nigerian Left was still able to put together an Online Session to mark the 9th Anniversary... Read more
As tremendous as the interrogation of the ‘New World Order’ paradigm as proclaimed by then US president, George Bush, a Nigerian variant of that interrogation has been lacking. It is doubtfu... Read more
How much of a problem this still is remains to be systematically ascertained but it was the biggest part of the COVID-19 crisis in Nigeria. Whom or where do the ordinary Nigerians, especiall... Read more
