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

Legislative Immunity: What angry Nigerians are getting wrong

A lot of ignorant social media commentators are beating up on the Nigerian Senate for passing “Bill Number 8,” which grants legislative im