Thursday Column

Thursday Column

As we go to the polls this Saturday

Perhaps at no time has the fate of Nigeria hung in the balance as it does now. But then again, you have heard that before. You have heard it at every

Holy books and police guns for hire

Over the weekend in Abuja, something came over Pastor Uche Aigbe, as he was about to mount the pulpit for his Sunday sermon. Aside from his Holy Book,

Wanted: Someone to explain what is happening in Nigeria

Imagine you are walking down the street and you see a poster for a wanted person. This hypothetical poster will contain an APB with the following deta

Naira scarcity and a life of queueing in Nigeria

In 1950s New York, building managers quickly realised that people queuing to use the elevators were becoming increasingly angsty and were given to int

The jollof wars: On UNESCO’s ‘abitration’ and the heritage potential of garau-garau

The snowball that has been the jollof rice debate reached dizzying dimensions this week when reports spread that the United Nations Educational, Scien