The internet is an interesting invention. For some, it is the peak of humanity’s genius. That anyone, anywhere, can access information or communicate with millions of people within seconds on the inte...
I want to approach the bombshell news of Peter Obi teaming up with his former boss, Atiku Abubakar and some disaffected former APC bigwigs to join the ADC coalition, through evolutionary lens. As a ps...
More than 60 years after independence, decolonisation remains appealing to large swaths of Africans. Writers and other creative artists occassionally make it the core subject of their enterprise. Scho...
By John Oguntiloye A 1990-1991 study referenced by Wikipedia ranked Nigeria as the country with the highest church attendance in the world, at 89 per cent. You might argue that this data is definitely...
My friend John made a laughable prediction during one of our many conversations last year. On this auspicious day, we were decrying what we both saw as the dumbing down of the culture seeing the explo...
By John Oguntiloye Every time I write about Nigeria, there is a constant urge to begin with how Nigeria has no data, no significant record from which objective inferences could be drawn. The implicati...
Nigeria is a fascinating place to the foreign observer. But more so to its citizens who live within its harrowing reality. It is a tale of the resource curse, the Dutch Disease, the paradox of plenty,...
Usually, when you say anything critical of Islam as a non-Muslim, you get accused of not knowing what you are saying. You’re told you need to study the religion in-depth, practice it for a length of t...
A few months ago, I joined a WhatsApp group created for prospective volunteers for an African Union initiative. Applicants joined from various African countries. As we awaited the final results of our...
Nigeria is hardly a nation of patriots. From the outside, you may be mistaken to believe Nigerians are prideful of their heritage. The way they fight over jollof rice, Afrobeats, and their vaunted cla...