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Nigeria: Peaceful separation or violent unity?, By Wole Olaoye

Nigeria, April 22 -- It seems that everybody wants Nigeria to remain one indivisible entity. Right? At least, that is what they profess openly. But don't be deceived, the hoopla that will greet you at... Read More


Clemency for Sunday Jackson, By Wole Olaoye

Nigeria, March 30 -- In Nigeria, you can be sentenced to death for defending yourself against an assailant. Forget all that you've read to the contrary. If your life is threatened by an armed herdsman... Read More


The other emergency, By Wole Olaoye

Nigeria, March 24 -- When Nigeria's President Tinubu declared a state of emergency on oil-rich Rivers State last week, the issue took over every waking minute of Nigerians at home and abroad. Someday... Read More


Galadima's primitive jive, By Wole Olaoye

Nigeria, March 17 -- Alhaji Buba Galadima, an outspoken politician and self-confessed insider to many conspiracies, recently raised an alarm alleging that the current downward trend of food prices was... Read More


Between the lion and the jewel, By Wole Olaoye

Nigeria, March 9 -- "As for the charges against me, I am unconcerned. I am beyond their timid lying morality and so I am beyond caring," said the redoubtable Nigerian nationalist, Mrs Funmilayo Ransom... Read More


Stupidophobia is the beginning of wisdom, By Wole Olaoye

Nigeria, March 3 -- If you have a morbid fear of being stupid or being perceived as stupid by your peers and associates, you are suffering from stupidophobia, aka stultophobia. Many well educated peop... Read More


Two men who lived for something, By Wole Olaoye

Nigeria, Feb. 17 -- When veteran politician, Chief Ayo Adebanjo, and foremost publisher, Chief Joop Berkhout joined the ancestral realm within days of each other, Nigerians were unanimous in their ver... Read More


A choice between mass wedding and mass literacy, By Wole Olaoye

Nigeria, Feb. 11 -- "Did you hear the latest trending news from Kano? The state government is planning to spend N2.5 billion for the quarterly mass wedding exercise across the 44 local government area... Read More


One tollgate too many, By Wole Olaoye

Nigeria, Jan. 26 -- If President Tinubu is to wind up on the positive side of history, the various measures his government is taking now to lighten the economic burden of lowly placed Nigerians must s... Read More