Dialogue With My Country

Dialogue With My Country

Noose, noose everywhere in Africa

These are not the best of times for African journalists. Official noose, not to be mistaken for a necktie, continues to tighten around their elongated

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I borrowed the title of this column from the late American novelist and polemicist, Norman Mailer, once regarded as the enfant terrible of American li

Let the press be, Mr President

The struggle never ends. Haroun Adamu usually signed off his column in the Daily Times with the warning: the struggle continues. Under every governmen

Minus the poor, plus the poor

I did not know we were on a roll. The good times were actually rolling but I was too deaf to hear and too blind to see the changes wrought by the man

The case for a national conversation

In my column, “The burden of Nigeria’s Unfinished businesses,” (May 24), I suggested that part of our problems as a nation is that we are hobbled by s