Thursday Column

Thursday Column

Maina’s hell still greater than pensioners’ heaven

The most striking image of the week in Nigeria has to be that of a clean shaved, pudgy-faced smiling man. A zanna cap of beige and brown threads sat s

Kidnap stories

The week before, as most Nigerians know, there was an attack on a train heading from Kaduna to Abuja. Fortunately, there was no fatality in that incid

What’s the furore over Fayemi?

The search for a black goat should begin well before nightfall —African proverb In a few months, active politicking for who will succeed President Muh

Elmina was painful like that

Last week, I visited Ghana to give a talk at the New York University, Accra Campus and hold a writing workshop at the Goethe Institute for promising G

The Ilorin video and the legend of Mr Wahidi

Before I got into secondary school back in the days in Jos, I was terrified by the legend of Mr Wahidi. My older brothers and their friends talked abo