Nigeria, Aug. 12 -- "Politicians," the vituperative satirist Auberon Waugh observed, "can forgive almost anything in the way of abuse; they can forgive subversion, revolution, being contradicted, expo... Read More
Nigeria, Aug. 6 -- Book burning. Book pulping. Book vandalising. It's all the fashion and, dare one say it, the rage. Libraries are carting them off to the dump. Repositories of memory are being shred... Read More
Nigeria, Aug. 2 -- It is a stew of inedible quality. But eat it we are expected to do. Consider the stomach-churning ingredients. FIFA, an opaque organisation of mafia qualities that governs world foo... Read More
Nigeria, July 19 -- She has been a remarkable survivor in the cutting, remorseless field of politics. Mocked for her incoherence, her lack of erudition, and dismissed as a garden variety racist, Pauli... Read More
Nigeria, June 23 -- Israeli defence personnel and politicians might not be top billing in the boardrooms and reception halls of many countries at the moment, but that hardly bothers Australia's riches... Read More
Nigeria, June 22 -- Whatever the high-minded rhetoric and spirited calls to guarding civilisation against oriental barbarism, the ongoing support and funding of Ukraine in its military struggle with R... Read More
Nigeria, June 17 -- Never make laws regarding the unmeasurable and the uncontainable. The silliness of these injunctive measures can only come back and bite. Prohibit brothels, and decent whoring goes... Read More
Nigeria, June 11 -- The FIFA Men's World Cup of 2026 was always going to offer visitors and spectators something different. Shared between three countries - Mexico, Canada and the United States - the ... Read More
Nigeria, June 4 -- Call it a repeating script, a rusty template, or simply a creaky model to emulate time and again. The structural and homicidal destruction of Gaza undertaken by Israeli forces is no... Read More
Nigeria, May 30 -- While eyes remain peeled on Israel's increasingly violent and expanding campaign in Lebanon, the government of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is proving ever more predatory with ... Read More