Thursday Column

Thursday Column

After reading Walter Rodney

In 1987, I was introduced to Walter Rodney in a development communication class taught by Professor Andrew Moemeka who used the Caribbean intellectual

Beyond the US Visa restrictions

A new U.S visa regime announced by the Trump government on January 31 2020, which will restrict citizens of Nigeria and five other countries from obta

“The Igbo man doesn’t kneel down for anybody except his chi…”

This week I am continuing with my no-holds-barred interviews with some outspoken Nigerian leaders. As soon as we settled down for the interview in his

An encounter with Dr Junaidu Mohammed

Even if you do not like his guts, what you cannot take away from Dr Junaidu Mohammed, a Second Republic law maker who shoots from the hips, is that he

The Ghost of Qasem Soleimani

There was a big temptation last week for me to abandon a story I already planned for  the week and comment on the assassination of Qasem Soleimani by