JAMB’s Mediocre Cutoff: An Unconventional View
The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) recently reduced the cutoff for its standardized admissions test for entry into universities from
Notes from Atlanta
Notes from Atlanta
Garba Shehu, Presidential Villa Rodents and bad PR
People who know that presidential spokesman Malam GarbaShehu was my undergraduate journalism teacher never fail to email, call, or text me each time h
America’s South is like Nigeria’s North and vice versa
It is all too easy to look at the United States and be led to suppose that it is impervious to internal divisions because it prefixes the adjective &l
Hello Bello: How ‘Bello’ became Nigeria’s most ecumenical name
This article has been in the works for months. Each week I decide to work on it, something more pressing that invites my commentary comes up. But I ha
Ango Abdullahi, Northern Nigerian colonial economy and Niger Delta oil
In my May 6, 2017 column titled “Top 8 Popular National Lies that Won’t Die in Nigeria,” I called attention to out-and-out historica